Here you will read off-the-cuff, of-the-moment ramblings from Sageza analysts about important issues and trends. We are not going to pretend that we will present fully thought-through diatribes, but rather expose some of that leading-edge thought that is seeping under our skin, just waiting to leap out on the unsuspecting. We hope that our efforts will stimulate your thinking, make you smile/laugh, or at least annoy you enough that you will keep commenting and coming back for more.
Earlier this week Omnifone and HP announced a partnership to distribute the MusicStation Desktop music service on 16 HP PC models in 10 European countries. The service will provide unlimited access to millions of tracks from Universal Music Group,...
Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc. | 12th November '09
Once again I find myself the lucky recipient of the honorable identifier, AA 197 seat 22D, and as such have a few hours to kill in a rather austere low humidity environment. Thank goodness for my latest iDevice with its requisite collection of...
Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc. | 22nd September '09
OK, so I managed another early start on my day and caught Caltrain #217 to San Francisco. Destination: Moscone West, my day home away from home, and Intel's Developer Forum (IDF).
The trek to IDF is a late summer / early autumn pilgrimage...
Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc. | 2nd September '09
Monday was the beginning of the week-long virtualization love fest known as VMworld 2009. Although the exposition did not start until Tuesday, Monday was a day of tutorials, preparation, and an industry analyst event where VMware parted the...
OK, so I find myself again at 37,000 feet fighting dehydration and the limitations of American Airlines 1023 seat 9D, (hey at least it is an improvement over 14E of the previous flight leg.) Not that I relish flying anywhere these days, but at...
Today, June 2nd, I set my alarm early, 6:00 AM early. The reason was to catch Caltrain #313 @ 6:57 AM so I can make it Moscone Center in time for Sun Microsystems' keynote at JavaONE. As I made my way to the train station, I pondered what I was...
OK, so IBM is backing away from Sun after the latest round of negotiations. While there has been much speculation about the sale price and just how much CYA IBM would be willing to afford the Copernican Company, as of now, the deal has fallen...
Clay Ryder, Sageza Group, Inc. | 15th September '08
In the world of IT the demarcation between servers, storage, networking, software, and a bevy of other devices is becoming less clear every day. In particular, this got me thinking about one piece of IT equipment that I am not even sure is still...
Lawrence Dietz, Sageza Group, Inc. | 6th December '07
I don't think there is any question that bots and botnets are a dangerous threat. The combination of a worm delivery vehicle and a malware payload of varying capabilities is a potent one that attackers have morphed to suit their own purposes. Bot...
Once again I find myself the resident of seat 30C (power equipped) in a nearly full pressured tin can aka a Boeing 767-200 being flown courtesy of American Airlines. It is no surprise anymore that I spend more of my life at 37,000 feet, with 10%...
Dana Gardner Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions
