Charles King

LAS VEGAS—Keynoting the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a considerable honor, especially the opening session when the event’s tens of thousands of attendees (over 182K at CES 2018) and thousands of media members (6,600+ in 2018) haven’t suffered from days of crowded conditions, noise pollution, sleep deprivation and the food/drink for which Las Vegas is […]

Data storage has an odd position within the IT continuum. Although widely recognized for the critical roles they play in computing infrastructures of every kind and size, storage solutions tend to receive less public attention than microprocessor and memory technologies. That is a serious oversight, especially when one considers how important storage is in crucial […]

More than two decades on, the continuing evolution and growth of open technologies qualify as one of the industry’s largest and most surprising success stories. Remember that in the late 1990s, open source companies, products and standards directly challenged leading, seemingly indomitable vendors. In fact, many of those companies considered open source to be explicitly, […]