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12:06 AM Thursday, September 04, 2008
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Whenever “Green IT” is invoked, it’s usually about reducing the energy consumption of IT equipment or manufacturing/powering them with renewable resources. Which is a pity. Because the really Big Green Opportunities out there are about applying IT to
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02:14 AM Friday, August 29, 2008
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Hilarious poem by Sam Charrington highlighting the difficulty of nailing down a definition of cloud computing. The Blind Men and the Cloud It was six men of Info Tech To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Cloud (Though all of them were blind),
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02:00 AM Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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As Green IT becomes increasingly sexy, there has been much chatter about the power savings that solid state storage can bring into the datacenter. Does this make economic sense, or is it yet another case of greenwashing? Let’s walk through some napkin
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02:53 AM Thursday, August 21, 2008
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To say I was surprised would be putting it mildly – apparently you can watch full-length episodes of most anime series for free at various websites (according to my anime-addicted buddy). If any website tried to pull the same stunt with say, Disney’s
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01:53 AM Thursday, August 14, 2008
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10% of all non-spam emails that arrive in corporate inboxes are never read , according to informal polls of Microsoft Exchange administrators. Within Microsoft, that number rises to a whopping 33% – I guess I should count myself lucky that most of my
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12:19 AM Wednesday, August 06, 2008
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One of the key attributes that startups seek in an investor is relevant domain expertise. If you’re making quantum computers and you ask someone who made his fortune in digital media to join your board, that’s sort of like asking a NASCAR racer to be
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02:13 AM Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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During my first drive into Boston many years ago, it didn’t take me long to get hopelessly lost. I later learned that the labyrinthine road system was not in fact an elaborate trap for hapless outsiders, but owed its legacy to a time when horses were
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12:50 PM Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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Won’t it be neat to know which customers your competitors are calling on? Or perhaps the number of salespersons they have in a particular geography? How about the technical details of that “top secret” product they’re developing? You would think that
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01:18 AM Thursday, July 17, 2008
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Chinese mythology is replete with deities that ride clouds up into the heavens. Many startups similarly seeking nirvana on the back of cloud infrastructure have found their ascent rudely interrupted . It seems unlikely that any single cloud infrastructure
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02:56 AM Wednesday, July 09, 2008
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Purveyors of plush mattresses are quick to point out that since you spend 8 hours per day on their product, their eye watering prices are fully justified. Rarely mentioned is the fact that you’re unconscious for most of those 8 hours. Less well known
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02:40 AM Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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Interesting rule of thumb based on military operational research performed by Frederick Lanchester during World War I: If you’re trying to enter an existing market where the dominant player has greater than 40% market share, you will need to spend at
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01:32 AM Wednesday, June 25, 2008
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Along the road from starting a business to (perhaps) getting to the Next Big IPO, one of the more daunting assignments that an entrepreneur will likely face is the process of raising capital. The task can be decomposed into qualitative & quantitative
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01:02 AM Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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Given all the cacophony around JeOS , and the vigorous (and probably correct) assertions that virtual appliances are the future model for application delivery and deployment, you could be excused for tolling the death knell for server operating systems.
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01:15 AM Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Won’t it be nice if you could come in for work and just play computer games all day? Given the tantalizing productivity gains that could be reaped if people applied the same zeal to work as they do to games, it’s no wonder that much energy has been expended
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02:03 AM Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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Even as the size of the blogosphere continues to burgeon , I’m finding it increasingly hard to find high quality blog content. The signal-to-noise ratio has decreased, but the filtering technologies just haven’t caught up. Today, if you want to find original,
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