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11:21 PM Tuesday, April 01, 2008
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2006 was supposed to be the coming out party for holographic storage. Multiple product launches were eagerly anticipated. There was a fair amount of media buzz, complete with analyst estimates of 45M unit shipments and a $125M market by 2010. The reality
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01:37 AM Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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It can be a challenge today to find a large enterprise that’s not tinkering with desktop virtualization in some way, shape or form. Marketers have been capitalizing on the virtualization hype to repackage what’s essentially an old technology as the latest
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03:56 AM Sunday, March 09, 2008
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Jeff Fisher from Desktone has posted some thoughts on desktop virtualization. One interesting scenario he paints is a future where employees will be expected to provide their own physical PCs that corporate IT departments will simply stream a virtual
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02:37 AM Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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One of the more intriguing ideas to bubble out of the virtualization ecosystem is VMCasting – the notion of distributing virtual machines via RSS feeds. Coined by Enomaly , an open source consulting firm best known for Xen management tool Enomalism and
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02:55 AM Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Many virtualization startups I’ve met with recently have expressed some degree of hesitation, even skepticism, about developing support for Hyper-V . I find this perplexing. First, VMware is likely to accelerate their annexation of adjacent markets currently
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02:03 AM Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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I have always been skeptical of clean tech startups that rely entirely on their green credentials to stay in business. Government subsidies come and go - solar energy veterans will recall the carnage that resulted from the Reagan administration. And while
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01:42 AM Thursday, December 06, 2007
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Barry Eggers from Lightspeed Ventures has posted his 2008 predictions for Enterprise Infrastructure. He believes that flash-based storage, which I posted on earlier , will gain traction in the data center. Also discussed are two different aspects of virtualization,
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01:06 PM Monday, October 01, 2007
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There are many more startups in the markets I cover than I have resources to invest in. So how do I arrive at my short list? One tool I use is the 4P framework - People, Product, Plan and Profits. People are the lifeblood of all startups. Entrepreneurs
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