Cloud Computing
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Announcing the 2014 Cloud Computing Person of the Year
Because if you’re on the public cloud and get hacked, you both have someone else to blame and are probably not alone.
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Ballmer vs. Chambers: A Corporate Cage Match
Amidst adding Cisco to Dinosaur Row, I asked someone “If Steve Ballmer got run off by Wall Street, how does John Chambers still have a job?” Both are/were long-tenured, non-founder CEOs of two of the biggest technology companies. Both have presided over erosion of prior dominance during the course of the 21st century, even as…
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Dinosaur Row
IBM’s cloudy predicament is now widely understood. BusinessWeek made IBM’s existential crisis a cover story (a concept that doesn’t really exist any more if you read the publication online): Forbes then called out recently departed IBM CEO Sam Palmasaino for his financial engineering shenanigans with “Why IBM is in Decline”. Cringely went one better with…