Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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“Scotty More Power” – Users Love the iPhone Blackberry and Portable Devices and Applications
by Anton Wahlman With the Blackberry app store launching by the end of March 2009, a dramatic new problem will emerge with full force: Where is the application memory to run these new applications? In order to understand the magnitude of this problem, we have to look at the mother of all app store pioneers: ...
Infrastructure 2.0: The Modernization of the Datacenter – Doug Gourlay of Cisco
I cornered Doug Gourlay Senior Director of Product Marketing of Cisco’s Datacenter Business Unit, at the Infrastructure 2.0 event to answer my question about what he means when he says “The Modernization of the Datacenter”. Question (John Furrier): What do you say to all the skeptics who say that you’re promoting the modernization of the ...
Yahoo Earnings 4th Quarter and Full Year 2008 – The Facts
I fully expect a decoder from Boomtown’s Kara Swisher soon and I will spare you my opinion for now. Here are the facts on Yahoo 4th quarter and full 2008 results. Update: Kara Swisher has the decoder on for this – Her take is “Yes We Can...”..Apparently Carol is doing a fine job. Here is ...
PEAK IT – Big Trend in Enterprise Information Technology – IT Trend
Some are saying that the polarization of IT is changing back to one side. You decide. Right now I’m digging into this further. Here is the paragraph to read. Peak IT occurs in an organization when investments in automation and productivity tools are crowded out by rising operations and management expenses. The result is a ...
What Pisses You Off About Blogs – The List
I am launching a new blog next month and I really wanted to get a pulse from the twittersphere on what pisses them off about blogs. I put out a tweet today about what pisses people off about blogs – the responses poured in so I thought I’d keep the list here. I will use ...
Social Media Fallacies – What To Know If You’re Thinking of Social Media
Here is a great post by Jason Baer on the fallacies of social media. Social media is the email marketing of our web 2.0 everyone will do it but how is the question. I’ve been doing it for years and I agree with this post. I’ve added some of my comments in { } below. ...
Silicon Valley in Trouble? I Don’t Think So – A New Model Will Arrive
Comparing Silicon Valley to Detroit is ridiculous, but Dan Lyons does bring up a big issue worth discussing – innovation problem. Silicon Valley is not setup for long term research in a way that made it what it is today. We are seeing institutional research vaporize in front of our eyes. Checking around it’s apparent ...
My Version of Yahoo’s Turnaround Plan – Focus on Management Team and New Players
Boomtown has a post speculating that Carol is taking the :bull by the horns” and charging hard to make changes. First up an earnings call that will surely be a bad report. In the NFL they talk about franchise players. In business and startups they talk about the management team. Here Yahoo has one clear ...
Infrastructure 2.0 – The Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing
I had a chance to meet with Doug Gourlay, Senior Director of Cisco’s Datacenter Business Unit, to ask him about what he thinks of Infrastructure 2.0. Very interesting response. I have a few more segments: Modernization of the Data Center and What Cisco thinks of the phrase “Moving up the stack”. Enjoy the video (less ...
