Four times a year, IDC releases their market share analysis for the storage market.  Even though most vendors don't talk much about it, just about every vendor subscribes to their service.  Much time is spent in conference rooms debating and discussing the numbers and their implicati...

I tend to think of interoperability as a gradient. The old industry stalwart from the 1990's is what I'd call "runtime interoperability", wherein you could write a Java EE application, deploy it on a Java EE application server, and (with a questionable amount of tweaking), get it to operate. SQL was...

Back in 1991, before the Internet was a big deal, Ohio State University technologist Jerry Martin signalled the nascent Internet's value with an official standards document entitled "There's gold in them thar networks!" (RFC1290) Although simmering as an academic tool for years, the Internet had not...

E xperts worry that Australia, which emits more carbon dioxide per head than any nation on earth, may also be the first to implode under the impact of climate change. Parched: Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in Be Different: STAND OUT In Campaign Wars, Apple Still Has Microsoft’s ...

I come to bury SPEC SFS, not to praise it. When we at Fishworks set out, our goal was to build a product that would disrupt the enterprise NAS market with revolutionary price/performance. Based on the economics of Sun's server business, it was easy to know that we would deliver on the price half of ...

Join us for TechFuse 2009 on March 17! It’s back and even bigger than last year! With 36 sessions and two keynote presentations to choose from, TechFuse 2009 is the most cost-effective way for IT and Developer pros to get up-to-date, 200-300 level education on the topics that matter to your role. ...

Today Barack Obama becomes the 44th president of the United States, during a scary economic meltdown and at a time when America questions its role in the world and its self-perception as a champion for good and progress. Among his many agenda items as president is one for technology. His incoming ad...

The recent IDEAS newsletter summarized some prognostications made by IDEAS analysts for the coming year (see PDF). In the current economic climate, it initially appeared hard to avoid a gloomy outlook. The ability for organizations to make major investments in new technology could be dampened in the...

1714 Englishman Henry Mill receives a patent for the first typewriter. (No. 385) He will never successfully market his invention and, while it will later be recognized as the first in a long evolution of devices, his design will die with him. The patent is titled, “An artificial machine or met...

BACKGROUND It great to be invited to attend and participate in the State of the Net conference in Washington DC by Tim Lordon Director of the Internet Education Foundation who met me when I spoke at the EIF event at the European parliament . I would also like to thank MEP James Elles and Peter Linto...