Virtualization VMware's Gaetan Castelein: Transitioning to Disaster Avoidance The evolution of VMware's disaster recovery guidance for customers is taking it in a direction that is actually less focused on the disaster itself, and more on business continuity. That's changing the very economics of disaster recovery (DR) software, according to VMware infrastructure product manager Gaetan Castelein. In an interview with… Scott M. Fulton View comments
Lists The Best Non-Tech Stories of the Year c/o Ira Glass and the New York Times One thing that I have learned from decades of writing is always find and tell a great story. And this is why Ira Glass is one of my heroes, one of my mentors. You wouldn't think that a guy who writes about tech day in and day out could be so moved from listening to him on public radio, or seeing one of his live shows. It isn't like he uses some… David Strom View comments
Features A Note on Paper: The Human Interface Back in the 1980s, one of my first publishers asked me for a quick biography paragraph to place at the end of a story. "Tell your readers about yourself," an editor said. "He fills infinite pieces of paper," I wrote. (It was the shortest piece I ever composed.) Since that time, I've been presented with a countless number of form factors of… Enterprise Scott M. Fulton View comments
Guest Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs At today's roundtable, the last for 2011, we had four different countries represented and an intense set of discussions on five very interesting businesses - a fabulous event to end the year with. BootstrapToday Anand Agarwal from Pune, India, pitched BootStrapToday, an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SaaS solution from his company… Sramana Mitra View comments
Social Networks LinkedIn's Top 10 Most Shared Articles Of 2011 Mean Business Today professional network LinkedIn released its top most shared stories. There are currently 130 million professionals on LinkedIn, and the most popular shared articles are about how to be a better worker. The number two and number three most shared stories were about Steve Jobs. The number nine most shared article was about how people look at… Social Alicia Eler View comments