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In the movie "Jerry Maguire," there is a scene where Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) a career limits aware football star, is driving his agent, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) to get him the best financial deal he possibly can on his contract renewal because he inherently understands that it may be his last contract! In that scene, Tidwell is pushing Maguire to get the team to "Show me the money" so he can secure the financial future of his family. I...
The old adage "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" doesn't exactly ring true in IT! Those of us that live in the IT world are so enraptured by technology we forget the simple truth of business. It is about providing solutions to business problems. Like the mousetrap that is the means to an end or said more directly- gets rid of the mice! The business problem is that mice are not welcome inhabitants in any hom...
Every business measures the value of each functional area in one form or another. Products, development, support, sales, marketing and the list continues, each deliver a value to the business. Information Technology at times appears to be a pure expense line. Yes there is a service provided and yes there is an infrastructure delivered but, does IT deliver a business value that can be measured in dollars and cents? In my recent blogs and many ot...
Information storage has become the Achilles heel of business and its IT arm. While the dilemma of recovery hangs over the heads of most corporations, information continues to grow at 50% to 70% or more per year and is becoming the albatross following the corporate ship that just never seems to go away. A recent Gartner User Survey (October 2010) ranks data growth as "the biggest data center hardware infrastructure challenge being faced by large ...
In my last two blogs I reviewed data growth, IT budgets and storage efficiency. These are all inter-twined as we look toward economic and business recovery. The key in all this is "can we afford the data growth?" and if not, what can be done to lessen the impact as businesses drive toward recovery and financial health. Let's look at some of the facts that have been discussed: Data will continue to grow at a rate of 50% or more in 2011 and w...
In Mike's Blog a couple of weeks ago, 'Get Out of My Way', he accurately portrayed our Albireo offering as 'not in the read path'. In primary storage implementations, it's critical to ensure the most efficient access to data. 'Out of the read path' has been one of our key messages that bear repeating because it's so significant. Albireo is embedded in the storage vendors stack so we have been extremely careful not to impact their operations. As...
Usually summer is a time for reflection and sun tanning at the beach. From a business perspective things tend to slow down a bit while each of us takes a second breath and spend some quality time with our families away from the business side of our lives. There is usually not much industry news few 'big deals' occur that were not already in play. Technology shift announcements are typically saved for September when everyone is back, so the...
Every New Year brings with it hope for a more prosperous year than the one before and a clearing of the previous year’s frustrations. We all enter New Years Eve with a sense of optimism and it’s a good time to look at the horizon and predict what we think the next be 12 months will look like. Having waited a few weeks; I have tempered my unbridled optimism while looking ahead to the end of the year 2010. From a technology perspective, I...