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Integrating Services and Why Google Doesn’t Bother Me

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 28, 2012 / Leave a comment

Every couple of months I go to see a short little man who works at the Nordstrom’s in Charlotte to talk work clothes and usually buy a few shirts, a pair of pants or two and sometimes a pair of shoes. I know that Nordstrom’s is not the cheapest place...
The Next Steve Jobs

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 14, 2012 / Leave a comment

The other day I wrote a post about how Steve Jobs made Apple a great company by slowly but surely helping people conquer their fears about technology. He made computers usable without knowing how to type on a command line with the mac, made the crazy complicated world of music...
The Myth of the Virtual Desktop Comes to the Phone

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ January 9, 2012 / 2 Comments

A few years ago I wrote a 40 page whitepaper on Virtual Desktops. I extolled the virtues of what seemed to me to be an obvious decision. You take the hundreds or thousands of desktops in your office and cost $600 per system and replace them with little boxes that...
Too Big to Fail and IT

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ December 30, 2011 / 3 Comments

People have their lives, their IP on IT systems like Google Docs or iTunes or Facebook, and many businesses rely on the software and support of companies like Microsoft. Imagine what would happen to the American economy if Google or Microsoft failed. Imagine if Facebook shut its doors and you...
VMWare as the Amazon of PaaS

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ December 20, 2011 / Leave a comment

Note: This is an extremely geeky post… if you have no interest in Enterprise Infrastructure it will not only bore you, it probably won’t make much sense. I noticed this week that VMWare expanded their Cloud Foundary offering to include support for .NET. I had three seperate thoughts about this...
The Silliness of Marketing

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ December 19, 2011 / Leave a comment

I received an email last week from Verizon informing me that the Galaxy Nexus had arrived in stores. The picture of the main portion is above. The Galaxy sounds like it’s going to be an amazing phone, what I don’t understand is why the ad doesn’t say that! The phone...
Amazon Silk’s “Cloud Acceleration” Isn’t Working

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ December 7, 2011 / 1 Comment

When Amazon announced the Kindle Fire, one of the most interesting features was the browser, Silk. The idea is that Silk will cache entire web pages (including all the bits that come from third parties) on Amazon’s EC2 cloud and have them ready for super-fast delivery. The most popular sites...
ChromeOS, Google Docs and Fighting With Microsoft

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ December 1, 2011 / 2 Comments

Joe Brockmeier over at RWW asked an interesting question in his post yesterday, “Why hasn’t Google killed off Chromebooks?” They’ve been on a killing spree lately with labs, Wave and others. So why not kill off a set of devices that Brockmeier points out will have lower sales per year than...
What’s Blackberry Up To?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ November 30, 2011 / Leave a comment

Blackberry announced a new product yesterday, Mobile Fusion. It is basically an update to the Blackberry Enterprise Server that has long been a dominant player in enterprise IT, but with a new twist: compatibility. In addition to managing blackberries, the software will also be able to manage Android and iOS...
Not Too Late For Microsoft to Stay Relevant?

Posted by Burgher Jon
/ November 25, 2011 / Leave a comment

The world is moving away from Windows as we know it. Cloud based technologies will make for thinner and thinner personal computers (in technical terms a “thin” computer is one that doesn’t have a lot of computer power or storage). Most of the technical community assumes that this means the...