Ismael Ghalimi
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What the next iPad will look like
I have been playing with my new MacBook Air 11” for a few hours now. I love every part of it, and there is not much I would like to change. Maybe shrinking the screen’s bezel and make it a 12” laptop without changing its outer dimensions. Or adding…
Staying Connected While Traveling
As my TripIt page can attest, I travel for business quite a bit. On average, I’m on the road more than 150 days a year, with monthly trips to Tokyo, and quarterly trips to Singapore and Europe. And being Intalio’s front-line sales representative, I am called to make product demonstrations to customers on a regular [...]
Love Respect
New iPhone released It is a massive success Yet people complain For all its presumed flaws, the new iPhone is an absolutely amazing experiment in industrial design and ecosystem reshaping. It’s bold, slick, gorgeous. It makes me wonder what the world would be like if all surrounding objects had been designed with the same level [...]
Farewell Sawada-San
Today, I am attending the funeral of Tomoaki Sawada, also known as Sawada-san. To me, he was a colleague, a mentor, and a friend. We met four years ago. Back then, I had visited Japan three times, in 1991, 1999, and 2006. Now, I live in Tokyo one week a month, and owe this lifestyle [...]
Ultimate Mobile Setup
If you find yourself on the road as often as I do (every other week) and most of your traveling is done abroad (Japan, Korea, Philippines last week), you will want to optimize your mobile setup for portability, connectivity, and affordability. I tried quite a few combinations of countless devices, and I learned a few [...]
VAIO X + iPad > MacBook Air
As a frequent traveler (300,000 miles last year), I am always looking for ways to shave some pounds off the gear I am carrying, without sacrificing convenience or performance. That’s the reason why I recently switched from a MacBook Pro 13” (4.5 pounds) to a MacBook Air (3.0 pounds). But with the iPad (1.5 pounds) [...]
Defining Cloud Computing for Business Users
Like any new IT trend, Cloud Computing gets its fair share of hype, and with it comes a multitude of vendors that use the terms in ways it was never intended for, therefore making it devoid of any sense. When pushed to the extreme, a simple server connected to a network seems to qualify as [...]
I think there is a world market for maybe five clouds
In 1943, Thomas J. Watson, then President of International Business Machines (IBM), allegedly said “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Today, industry pundits make similar flawed predictions, claiming that all the market needs is maybe five clouds: Amazon Web Services, Force.com, Google AppEngine, Microsoft Azure, and whatever IBM comes up [...]
Elastic Cloud? Not so Fast.
Image via Wikipedia Earlier this week, I attended a very interesting CEO roundtable organized by VMware. Around 40 VMware customers and partners (including Intalio) sat down with Paul Maritz (VMware’s CEO) for an hour of discussions about virtualization and cloud computing. Listening to customers, I developed a better understanding of the challenges lying ahead for [...]
Looking for Data on Corporate IT
Intalio recently sold Intalio|Cloud (the Managed On-Premises version) to two major customers in Japan, and we’re expecting a first deal in Singapore sometime in Q4 this year. We’re now working on our go-to-market strategy for the U.S. and EMEA, and are developing various marketing materials to support it, using this presentation as baseline. As part [...]
