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Graphene Flash Memory

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Ray

I have been thinking about writing a post on “Is Flash Dead?” for a while now.  Well at least since talking with IBM research a couple of weeks ago on their new memory technologies that they have been working on. … Continue reading →

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EMCWorld news Day1 1st half

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Ray

EMC announced today a couple of new twists on the flash/SSD storage end of the product spectrum.  Specifically, They now support all flash/no-disk storage systems. Apparently they have been getting requests to eliminate disk storage altogether. Probably government IT but … Continue reading →

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Services and products, a match made in heaven

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ray

In all the hoopla about company’s increasing services revenues what seems to be missing is that hardware and software sales automatically drive lots of services revenues. A recent Wikibon post by Doug Chandler (see Can cloud pull services and technology … Continue reading →

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Strategy is dead, again

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Ray

Was talking with a friend of mine this week and he said that strategic planning has been deemphasized these last few years mainly due to the economic climate.  We have discussed this before (see Strategy, as we know it, is … Continue reading →

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