Archive for May, 2011

The “Not Ready For Prime Time” Service

May 18, 2011

Tweet The original cast of Saturday Night Live were called the Not Ready For Prime Time Players as a kind of tongue-in-cheek joke about being  banished to late night TV.  I wonder if cloud services should share the name. I don’t intend this post to be a airing of complaints I have with the service.  [...]

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EMCworld 2011 – Final Thoughts

May 16, 2011

Tweet EMCworld 2011 has come and gone.  As I prepare to get back to work, I am trying to digest all of the information and apply it.  Someone last week said it is beyond the cliche of drinking from a fire hose to just trying to decide which hose to drink from.  From analyzing materials [...]

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Cloud, Big Data, and little old me

May 11, 2011

Tweet The EMCworld theme this year is “Cloud Meets Big Data”. If you are in IT or follow technology news you are well aware of these terms. You may not be aware of what they mean but that doesn’t stop most people from using them. I’ve met and spoken to several other conference attendees most [...]

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Be Social

May 10, 2011

Tweet How do you “do” social media the right way? Of course this assumes there is a right way. I’m sure we could all provide examples of the wrong way. I am attending EMCworld 2011 and I have to say EMC is getting it right. Len Devanna has grown the Bloggers Lounge with more space, [...]

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