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Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Amazon makes the money on the reader software - Not hardware

April 19, 2011

Analysis of:The Kindle is an iPad Accessory, And That's Why It's Still Going to Be Huge | www.businessinsider.com

People own Kindles and iPads. The great thing is that you can read kindle books on your ipad with the kindle reader. Amazon has been smart to focus on the content and the software that runs on the kindle. If they make it run on all the tablet platforms, then it could be a solution like Microsoft office is to productivity tools.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

My intellectual property creation is not manageable

April 18, 2011

With all of the recent new applications being developed for the tablet (iPad is my case), the ability to track company Intellectual property is getting more difficult and protecting these assets is nearly impossible. Yet IT is challenged with maintaining corporate assets with regards to digital information.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Social Media - A Terabyte of Knowledge or Noise each day

April 10, 2011

The amount of data that can be gathered by companies on Facebook, twitter, and the many other sources of social media can add up to a terabyte of data a day (and increasing) for companies with even a meager amount of brand recognition. We finally have a source of new information that is like drinking from a fire hose – literally. There is so much information becoming available that all companies are racing to understand and manage this new source of market feedback.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Japanese HDD Companies Experience Component Supply Problems Due to Earthquakes

April 8, 2011

Hitachi GST and Toshiba have indicated that due to electrical part shortages they will be constrained on their ability to ship HDDs. Hitachi has reported that this impacts all their desktop supply lines and it may impact their notebook drives as well. Toshiba is also experiencing critical HDD IC shortages that will limit their ability to build HDDs in the short term. Continuing earthquakes and power issues could make the supply of these components questionable for some time.

Matt StandishPrincipalInteractive Mobile Media

The US Wireless MNOs must consolidate

March 21, 2011

Analysis of:AT&T to Buy T-Mobile USA | online.wsj.com

Economies of scale is king in the Mobile Industry.  The At&t acquisition is overpriced considering that T-Mobile churned over 14.5 million of its 32 million customers last year.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Virtualization to include Cloud Applications

March 19, 2011

Desktop virtualization is beginning to be more than a virtualized version of Microsoft office and file storage. It is also becoming a standard virtual set of cloud applications. I attended my monthly CIO meeting last night and the topic was virtualization.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Seagate Refreshes Enterprise Storage, Including First Enterprise Product

March 19, 2011

Seagate introduced a variety of new enterprise level storage products. These products included traditional enterprise products including a 2.5 inch 10 k RPM drive with 900 GB. The company also announced its first enterprise solid state drives, Pulsar.2 and Pulsar XT.2. These SSD products are at least partially the result of the partnership between Samsung and Seagate announced last year.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

HDDs and Flash Memory, Better Together

March 17, 2011

Solid state drives are in less than 1% of computers after years of marketing saying they would replace HDDs. Flash memory has faster performance than HDDs, particularly for reading but it is considerably more expensive. Combining flash memory and HDDs together can give performance approaching solid state drives while offering prices comparable to hard disk drives. Hybrid and paired storage putting flash memory and HDDs together could put flash memory in most computers.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Obsolescence in Action?

March 17, 2011

In late February 2011 Intel and Apple announced that the latest MacBook Pro computers will include a Thunderbolt port. Thunderbolt had been announced previously by Intel as Light Peak and offered initial data rates as high as 10 Gbps. The first Thunderbolt products will use copper cables although Light Peak was to use fiber optics to achieve up to 100 Gbps data rates. Thunderbolt is much faster than USB (currently up to 5 Gbps) and may displace this long standing peripheral interface.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Saving Power in the Data Center

March 13, 2011

The speed of servers continues to grow. This could lead to an ever larger and larger power utilization in the data center. But there three main approaches to reducing power consumption in the data center. You can virtualize your servers, you can outsource to the clound and you can cnetralize your storage in a SAN.

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