Well, this is awkward – after spending years playfully eviscerating 451 Research analyst Owen Rogers, finally, I’m taking him to task “for reals.” Some research he’s just completed, while empirically correct in its findings, is intrinsically flawed in its…

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Living in a country that derives the majority of its GDP from primary production, I’m pretty interested in the opportunities and threats that technology introduces to agriculture. I’ve spoken at length about the very real threat that synthetic protein…

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Late last year I received an email from a PR agency asking me to try out Kiwi for Gmail. Now I’m not sure whether the name of the product is a none-too-subtle attempt to gain coverage from this proud…

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I’m spending a couple of days in Thailand at Huawei’s Asian Innovation Day. That’s somewhat ironic since this morning the New York Times ran a story about Facebook offering deep user access to four Chinese vendors, including Huawei. I…

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News today from cloud data management vendor Druva who is further delivering upon its market opportunity with a strategic acquisition of CloudRanger, a backup and disaster recovery vendor that focuses on Amazon Web Services (AWS). CloudRanger may be a…

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Microsoft (you’ve probably heard of them, they’re a gargantuan technology company founded by a guy who is now intent on giving his fortune away to make the world a better place) announced today that the rumors circulating over the…

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Owen Rogers (that’s a likeness of him in the picture above), IT industry analyst from 451 Research, is something of a martyr. This is a guy who spends most of his waking moments obsessing over the minutiae of cloud…

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Well, this one just lends itself to mediocre gage. Taking the helm, helming the ship, at the helm of the container vessel. You get the gist. Jokes aside, though, the news of the day is that the Cloud Native…

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Boom! Despite many industry pundits taking analysts reports with a grain of salt, we all collectively wait with baited breath for Gartner’s cloud Magic Quadrant. For those unaware of the Gartner methodology, the Magic Quadrant (MQ) is a simple…

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