Dell Serves Up New Round of Datacenter Appliances
Demo Rack from Dell World 2013 Dell is borrowing the concept of a datacenter appliance from their Oracle partnership to bring relevant datacenter appliances to a much wider audience. Oracle’s...
View ArticleSXSW Interactive Madness in . . . August?
It’s that time of year again: SXSW Interactive (South by Southwest) happens to Austin each March, much like a force of nature, and we are now just about six months in front of it. That means it is time...
View ArticleCurb Energy: Real-time Monitoring of Home Energy Usage
Every now and then in our home town of Austin, TX we get the pleasure of visiting with a new start-up. Such was the case a few weeks ago when Paul Teich and I visited Curb Energy in the Capital...
View ArticleInnovation Is Priority One At HP Inc.
For nearly 25 years, I have been analyzing Hewlett-Packard as a former competitor, former supplier and now industry analyst. Hewlett-Packard has been known for years as an innovator, one of the first...
View ArticleDeus ex (Soft) Machina
I have been in the semiconductor industry for what most people would consider to be “a long time.” We don’t hear claims for new general purpose microprocessor core architectural advances very often....
View ArticleMicrosoft HoloLens Gets Face Wearables Right
I attended Microsoft’s big event last week in Redmond where they made a number of product announcements, one of them called HoloLens. HoloLens is Microsoft’s own head-mounted device that is worn like a...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Conferences: OCP US Summit and OpenPOWER Summit
March is a busy month for conferences. Gina, Dan, and I had the chance to attend the Open Compute Project (OCP) US Summit the second week of March. Gina, Mike, and I then moderated three separate...
View ArticleVR is About to Take Off- Musings After Attending VR LA
There’s no denying that VR has been a hot topic on the tongues of many out there, some with serious ambitions, others mostly with empty ones. I recently was able to attend an event in Los Angeles by...
View ArticleJabil’s Blue Sky Center: Robotic Automation, Supply Chain Control Towers,...
I had the chance to moderate two panels at Jabil Circuit’s grand opening of their multi-million dollar Blue Sky Center in San Jose, CA. I have to say, I was blown away. I didn’t know a lot about the...
View ArticleThe Machine at HP Discover – The First Year
A year ago I wrote about HP’s first public disclosures for “The Machine”. At HP Discover last week in Las Vegas, HP Labs showed mechanical mock-ups for an early functional prototype of The Machine. I...
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