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Goodbye www.sun.com

Wai-Kit — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:56:46 +0000

Last week, some of my friends felt a sense of loss when they typed “www.sun.com” into their browsers and wound up on Oracle’s home page. Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems…

Tech companies: 2009 in retrospect

Wai-Kit — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:01:29 +0000

The year 2009 saw many tech companies, big and small, being sold, acquired or going into extinction. Most of these are / were due to the global economic crisis, diminishing…

Product Management 101

Wai-Kit — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:37:41 +0000

Generally, a Product Manager’s primary responsibility is to analyze the market, competitors, customers, external environment, lead and plan activities related to a specific product or product line. Product, is usually…

Verizon Business launching new APAC data centre

Wai-Kit — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:02:29 +0000

Verizon Business will launch an Asia-Pacific data centre for its computing as a service (CaaS) customers in the region and to address issues of latency, security and compliance.

Ray McQuillan,…

Telcos turning into Cloud Service Providers

Wai-Kit — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:46:01 +0000

Over the past years, Telecom carriers and service providers have suffered economic pressures, competition, churn and declining revenue. As they grapple to find ways to improve their ARPU from their…

How do you lead with all the bad news?

Wai-Kit — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:47:50 +0000

This has not been a good year. Numbers aren’t looking good. Weakening demand. Customer churn. Reduction in force. Those who were not affected by layoffs will have a much heavier…

What else can we talk about Data Center designs?

Wai-Kit — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:32:31 +0000

Larry Dignan wrote on his blog about Data Center design 101, but his knowledge about the data center essentially boils down to one word: Money. Larry attended two…

Speaking @ Jakarta

Wai-Kit — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:07:23 +0000

I’m scheduled to speak at a Sun briefing event entitled “Turn Obstacles into Opportunities” in Jakarta on Nov 24th. The agenda will be about achieving efficiency and maximizing ROA (Return…

The Art of War – Laying Plans

Wai-Kit — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:00:21 +0000

Sun Tzu’s Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that was written in the 6th century BC, during the Spring and Autumn period. Composed of 13 chapters, each of…

Governance beyond Uncertainty

Wai-Kit — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:18:35 +0000

I had the privilege to join Sun’s Chief Privacy Officer, who is also our Chief Governance Officer for Cloud Computing, in meetings with some government InfoComm authority folks. The subject…

How do Dolphins sleep?

Wai-Kit — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:20:06 +0000

Marine mammals like dolphins breathe just like us. But while humans can breathe even when our conscious mind is asleep, dolphins are equipped with a voluntary respiratory…

Transforming IT through Infrastructure Consolidation

Wai-Kit — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:52:14 +0000

I have just published an article on the definition of Infrastructure Consolidation, business drivers, key success factors, inhibitors, and recommended approach in such a project. The way I view such…

Controlling water vapor in Data Centers

Wai-Kit — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:35:08 +0000

We all know that in the world we live in, water exists in 3 forms – liquid, gas and solid. Water vapor refers to the gas form of water and…

M&A (part 2) – Unlike marriage, divorce is not an option

Wai-Kit — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:52:43 +0000

London’s Cass Business School recently released a research which highlights the perils facing executives tempted to use the financial crisis to buy struggling rivals, or distressed companies, at apparently bargain…

Site Selection for New Data Center: 10 factors to consider

Wai-Kit — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:14:37 +0000

Selecting the site for a new data center facility is both a business and technology decision. The selection process is a very important step as the outcome, once decided and…

M&A explained

Wai-Kit — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:33:12 +0000

The term M&A (short for Merger & Acquisition) is a corporate strategy which envisages management of processes related to selling, buying and combining one or more businesses for a common…