Six Weeks with Google’s Project Fi and Nexus 6p
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 13, 2016 I don’t change personal technology products very often. Instead, I tend to shop carefully, then hang on to products until they die or my reason for owning...
View ArticleGTC 2016: The Growing Value of Data Center Innovation
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 13, 2016 For many in Silicon Valley, NVIDIA’s annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) is one of the industry’s “must-attend” events. In large part, that’s because...
View ArticleIBM and the Value of Self-Disruption
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 20, 2016 Silicon Valley loves disruption, at least some of the time. That’s one reason venture capitalists and other speculative investors push the valuation of...
View ArticleIntel Announces New Restructuring Initiative
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 20, 2016 Silicon Valley has been so successful in cultivating a mystique around technology that it’s easy to forget that most vendors are in the manufacturing...
View ArticleHow Android and Chrome Integration Would Benefit Businesses and PC Makers
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. April 27, 2016 Part of my work as an IT industry analyst involves talking with reporters, a process I enjoy that also helps keep me aware about breaking news stories. So...
View ArticleEMC World 2016 – Respect for the Past, Context for the Future
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. May 3, 2016 I’ve attended EMC World trade shows for about as long as the company has been running them, since 2001, when the event primarily focused on the needs of...
View ArticleEMC World 2016 – Tucci’s Final Q&A and Looking Ahead
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. May 4, 2016 For me, Day Two of EMC World 2016 really began with EMC CEO Joe Tucci’s last private Q&A session with analysts, the significance of which requires a bit...
View ArticleLessons for IT: Learning from Others’ Mistakes
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. May 11, 2016 Learning from mistakes committed by other people is the foundation of observational intelligence. The concept is embedded in numerous religious texts, with...
View ArticleHANA Alliance Deepens for Lenovo & SAP
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. May 17, 2016 IT vendor alliances and partnerships are more fragile than most of those involved would be willing to admit. Typically, companies ally to pursue specific...
View ArticleVirtual Reality – The Need for a Wider View
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. May 25, 2016 If you pay attention to tech industry news, it’d be reasonable to conclude that virtual reality (VR) is one of the market’s most compelling topics. That’s...
View ArticleCitrix Synergy 2016 – Citrix/Dell Chart Separate, Complementary Courses
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. May 25, 2016 Annual trade shows serve to highlight the value of strategic relationships between the hosting vendor and its key partners and customers. But that doesn’t...
View ArticleHPE “Spin-Mergers” Services BU, Continues Chasing IBM
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. May 25, 2016 Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) president and CEO Meg Whitman shook up financial markets by announcing the company will execute a tax-free “spin-merger” to...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Surface Pro 4 – A Belated Review
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. June 1, 2016 Since reviewing business endpoints is a part-time job for me, it isn’t unusual to get review units until well after they’re delivered to other fulltime...
View ArticleIBM Spectrum Computing – Brand New Brand for SDI
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. June 8, 2016 Product branding and rebranding may seem simple to outsiders, but for people inside the process it’s serious in the extreme. That’s partly due to the stakes...
View ArticleIntel’s Xeon E7 v4, Moore’s Law and Advanced Analytics
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. June 8, 2016 Coming a little over a year after Intel celebrated the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, the company’s new Xeon E7-8800/4800 v4 processor family offers a...
View ArticleLenovo’s Data Center Group Comes into its Own
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. June 8, 2016 Tech industry mergers and acquisitions (M&A) come in all shapes and sizes but the vast majority are modestly-sized deals that allow the acquiring vendor...
View ArticleIBM’s Data Science Experience: A Lesson in Open Source Community Building
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. June 8, 2016 IBM’s launch of its new Data Science Experience, an IBM Cloud-based development environment for real time, high performance analytics leveraging the Apache...
View ArticleDell’s IoT Division Celebrates First Anniversary
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. June 15, 2016 The IT industry has been in high gear about the potential and commercial opportunities related to the Internet of Things (IoT) for a couple of years now,...
View Article128 Technology: Secure New Vector Routing Solutions Across Network Boundaries
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. June 15, 2016 New IT solutions don’t arise in a vacuum. Instead, most are inspired by real world technology and/or business problems. Some niggling, some serious but...
View ArticleIBM BigInsights: Refining Open Source Big Data for Enterprises
By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. June 29, 2016 I’ve written pretty regularly about IBM’s history of promoting open source technologies. Those efforts began with the company’s support of Linux in the...
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