61 years between stints would make most folks a little rusty at whatever it is they’re trying to do. Practice makes perfect–right? Coming away from the season’s first race at the Bahrain Grand Prix with its first F1 World Championship point in more than 6 decades shows that the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™Team hasn’t […]
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. —W. Somerset Maugham Three is a powerful number. There are the Marketing Rules of Three. Further, good marketers understand universal truths, and the power of three is one of the truths. People like choices— just not too many of […]
I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent. —Ronnie Hawkins I’m fortunate to have come into “tech” after a 15-year stint in the wine business. I managed wine programs for several restaurants during my engineering studies and then spent a decade selling wine and […]
What is ideal? A long (4 or 5 hour) bike ride along the Colorado Front Range followed up with some of my favorite carbonated nourishment is an ideal day in my book. And apparently Wout van Aert had an ideal day too—at this year’s edition of Strade Bianche when he soloed in for the win in the final 13 kilometers. With a broken wheel and 5 punctures, Julian Alaphilippe most certainly did not have an ideal day. So what’s ideal when […]
Ah, change. It’s not just the late David Bowie’s manifesto for (among other things) the frequency of change in the world today. Change is something to be embraced and utilized for growth. The ramifications for not accepting change can be grave. Remember Borders? Toys “R” Us? Failure to embrace change and innovate has generated some serious, […]
Several things come to mind when I hear the word “quick.” I once saw thousands of dollars vanish from my checking account in minutes from a PayPal hack (thanks to PayPal and my bank for making everything right). A cheetah can accelerate from a stand-still to 60 mph in about 3 seconds – quick indeed. […]
Your databases hold your company’s most critical assets, including customer information, corporate financials, human resources information, and other critical data sources. In today’s constantly connected global business environment, you need a cost-effective and reliable strategy for protecting your data from disasters. Good data protection practices require keeping usable business-critical backups offsite. This has traditionally been […]
Man, I could really use some downtime about now. With all this stuff going on, family spread across the country, work (grateful to be with NetApp), and much more, some downtime would suit me just fine. There’s only so much Netflix and reruns of Belgian cyclocross races in Flemish one can watch, and I need […]
I am in the cloud—several clouds actually. I’m also on the premises. I guess that makes me hybrid multicloud. My family and I like being able to access our photos, music, podcasts, and such from wherever we are on whatever device we happen to be using at the moment. We value the agility that the […]
44 seconds. Depending on your perspective, 44 seconds can feel like an eternity or seem to speed by in an instant. For example: In 2016, 44 seconds was all Texas A&M needed to put together the biggest last-minute comeback in NCAA Division I history. To Northern Iowa, those last 44 seconds were an eternity. […]
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