Posts by Dave Nicholson - EMC

DSSD says Violin's right: SSD format is WRONG for flash memory

Re: Proprietary flash modules

What do they teach in Economics Class in Canada? French?

Either DSSD offers greater value than a bunch of NAND-in-a-CAN, or it doesn't. The market will determine this and pay accordingly.

Pure Storage's 'disingenuous' financial figures still out there

The real red flag

Violin called out in their S-1 that they could not be successful unless their burgeoning PCI-e card business was successful. Nutanix is now hanging their hat on FC and all flash variants. Pure has started talking CI and "other cool mysterious stuff that will blow your mind".

"This isn't all we do."

Shouldn't it be a red flag when a company starts talking about "other stuff" before they have proven the original business plan?

In a world where success = raising money and spending it, maybe not.

Popcorn ready.

Storage slump? Dunno what you're talking about, beams EMC

Re: Slump or a time of transition?

Working to transform a $25B a year company so that it can thrive in a new world is hard.

It is quite an ambitious endeavor.

Gleeful critics and disruption greet you at every turn. It isn't for the feint of heart.

Vaughn is a class act, by the way.

Apple will cut down 36,000 acres of forest in 'conservation scheme'

It is fascinating to watch Apple go through its lifecycle. "Managing your supply chain" is great right up to the point where you truly believe that you can out-innovate entire industries outside of your core competency.

This is a different kind of "innovator's dilemma".

The one where innovators start thinking that they are smarter than everyone else about all things.

Quantum of Suspicion: Despite another $29m, D-Wave doubts remain

I heard they just need $50M more to complete time travel machine

Come on, Valley. Let's get this thing done. Again.

This time we won't destroy the universe.

I promise.