Supplier Report: 6/15/2014

** IBM **

IBM’s flash storage rated best in class by Gartner:
IBM may unload their chip business:
IBM is leveraging more open-source in their hardware to offset cost: (potential cip implication?)
IBM 3rd largest in security software
 
IBM shifting to same day delivery to compete with Amazon:
** HP **
Can HP pull an IBM?
NOTE: There are still alot of articles about HP’s hardware focus – so that is three weeks in a row of very hardware focused talk coming out of HP.  Not alot of chatter on cloud technology.
** Oracle **
Oracle developed database focused x86 server platform optimized for their DB products:
** Career **
Improve your communication skill:
Related: Becoming a better listener
Here is a long one with video:
Richard Feynman didn’t win the nobel prize by promptly answering emails:
“To do real good physics work, you do need absolute solid lengths of time…it needs a lot of concentration…if you have a job administrating anything, you don’t have the time. So I have invented another myth for myself: that I’m irresponsible. I’m actively irresponsible. I tell everyone I don’t anything. If anyone asks me to be on a committee for admissions, ‘no,’ I tell them: I’m irresponsible.”
I don’t encourage anyone to promote themselves as irresponsible, but I do support and advocate locking yourself away to focus on projects.