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Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Can IT speed products to market by implementing Social Networking

February 27, 2011

Product development cycle times have been shrinking for decades. But the truth is that we have optimized the Supply chain from the manufacturer back to the suppliers for the last 100 years (or more). The new frontier for reduced product cycle times involves customer input and the ability to take feedback and execute quickly. This is not necessarily a new topic. Many companies have been doing focus groups and pilot launches for several decades. In the past, these efforts have been limited geographically or in participation (2% response was considered fantastic). And companies have been tracking competitive information for generations. The use of Social media may be the driver for faster product development.

Peter Shih-Hsin YingPresident Knight Investment Consulting

No-Key-Ah Continues: Chapter Two- Jumping Through The Window...from Which Story?

February 27, 2011

Analysis of:Nokia vows to defend smartphone territory | www.totaltele.com

Nokia is out of focus concerning the supply chain problem. The Android Open Source OS is the easy solution. But instead of strolling out the front door with winning lottery ticket and running to the wide market field to cash it in like a #1 generalist handset provider should do, Nokia jumps out of a window! Windows 7 OS. The remaining question is from which story? It won't take too long then you can tell from the length of the screaming when it has fallen from the high window: No-key-AAaaahhh!

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Storage tiering for small businesses

February 21, 2011

Drobo has refreshed its new business oriented storage products. The new products include traditional NAS systems but also 2 SAN products using iSCSI. The business products come in 8 drive bay and 12 drive bay configurations. The 12 bay storage system support tiered storage using SSDs and HDDs in the 12 drive bays. New Drobo products reflect increased interest by large storage companies and small storage suppliers in the small business market.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Smartphone and Tablets may use the same OS but create different IT challenges

February 19, 2011

Smartphones are all over the enterprise. But most content on smartphones is replicated on a PC somewhere in your organization. The same is not true for tablets. Tablets have unique data capabilities and unique applications that many not fit on a laptop.

Lin SunConsultantSelf Employed

The Smartphone Rush

February 17, 2011

The strong demand for iPhone 4 in China stunned everyone after cold reaction to iPhone 3G and 3GS. It is another sign that market runs not on senses but emotions. True, iPhone 4 is more powerful and Wi-Fi is definitely a plus, but it also costs more. In less than two months after debut, about 500,000 iPhone 4s were sold in China, more than 3GS sold in a year. Whatever the reason, the reality is iPhone 4 has run out of stock in China and anxious customers have to wait until shipment resumes.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Tape storage capacities now at 5 TB

February 16, 2011

Analysis of:Record 5 TB for Tape by Oracle/StorageTek and Fujifilm | www.storagenewsletter.com

Oracle announced that the StorageTek T10000C tape drive. StorageTek T10000C will support 5 TB native storage capacity and 240 MB/s throughput. This is a native tape capacity higher than LTO 5 (1.5 TB) and 3.5-inch HDDs (3.0 TB). This product is used in new Oracle tape libraries that will store over an Exabyte (1,000 petabytes) of content.

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

Higher Storage Capacity in Small HDDs

February 16, 2011

Analysis of:Toshiba Expands 1.8” HDD Leadership with Smaller, Larger Capacity Drives | www.businesswire.com

Toshiba announced a single disk 1.8-inch HDD with storage capacities up to 220 GB. A two disk version would be 440 GB (larger than current 320 GB 2-disk product). 1.8-in HDDs are used in some automobile, mobile computer and AV player applications. Could a higher capacity iPod classic be coming?

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Storage vendors gaining clout over server vendors in the Data Center

February 12, 2011

Virtualization of servers has reduced the effort to manage servers. It has allowed IT to spend more energy managing the data in the enterprise. This has resulted in an increase in the importance of the storage vendors within the IT organization.

Cliff BellChief Information OfficerINFOGAIN CORPORATION

Verizon iPhone selling out means surge of Smartphones for IT

February 5, 2011

Analysis of:Apple: Verizon Sells Out iPhone Pre-Orders In 17 Hours | blogs.forbes.com

Is 2011 the year that applications in IT are re-written with the assumption that mobile devices are the main access to our critical systems? WHere does IT get these type of skills? Does the Verizon lauch of the iPhone create a tipping point?

Thomas CoughlinPresidentCoughlin Associates

ASTC plans brave new work on HDD research collaboration

February 3, 2011

A consortium of hard disk drive companies in combination with equipment and component suppliers has formed the Advanced Storage Technology Consortium. In the kick-off meeting the group, sponsored by IDEMA announced its plans for creating a new spirit of pro-competitive technology analysis. This collaborative work is expected to reduce the overall risk of new technology introductions such as energy assisted magnetic recording and bit pattern magnetic recording

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