A Journey to the Levant
In my previous post Fibre Channel is Dying, I mentioned rumours of Qlogic looking for a buyer, and they finally did.
It was just announced that Cavium is acquiring Qlogic , for $1B.
This is inline with my guess that a Silicon switch vendor will make the move to provide an Ethernet end to End solution.
Not surprisingly, Qlogic stock went up (to match the acquisition value) while Cavium went down.
Will be interesting to see how Cavium integrates Qlogic and what will be the focus.
A website I used to host in Godaddy has gone.
I was properly notified, was told I needed to purchase a plan and migrate the website.
But I don’t like it.
The website had no content, but just a placeholder. Yet now Godaddy force me to purchase a plan to host this page. Migration is scary, what will happen to DNS entries for mail. Hosted by Google, they also want to charge me money for a service I received free.
So the economy of “Free” is becoming “free until we decide differently”. I own websites which gladly pay for hosting, but I definitely do not want to pay to host an empty page. Godaddy could at least offer me free migration to a minimal plan.
Latest issue of the Economist features a discussion on State stipends , but what caught my eye is a table of Gini Coefficients and changes from 1985 to 2013.
Not surprising, inequality is the trend. If Sweden was more equal 30 years ago (around 0.2), it is now 0.28. Better than OECD average, but definitely a decline.
Notice that the trend is uniform as well as the OECD average. Japan, which was considered a rather “equal” country, is NOT. And even a bit worse than the average.
Digging into additional (old) OECD numbers , show the same trends, with Israel being even worse than Japan, and not much better than the US.
Is there something I can do about this ? Probably not, but let me think some more.
I often wonder on the Kindness of Strangers and how I can reward them back. Basically, I cannot. Strangers will stay strangers, un-rewarded.
A few days ago my blood pressure dropped while taking the train and strangers assisted me , took care of me and expressed real concern.
A few minutes later, I felt better, thanked whoever I could and walked away.
I will probably never meet these people, and even if I did I doubt if I will recognise them nor if they approach me.
Thank you strangers
Not dead yet, and still playing a major role in Enterprise storage, but yes, definitely declining.
You can doubt Ethernet marketing pitch , but you can’t ignore the fact that Emulex was sold to Avago and Qlogic is considering the same strategy .
I would assume Avago (Broadcom) will not buy Qlogic, so the question who will ? Which company has an interest in Qlogic products ? As FC is not that interesting as a long term strategy, it will be about Ethernet NIC technology.
My guess is that one of the Ethernet switch Vendors will be interested to expand their presence from Switching only, to the NIC cards and End to End solution.
As server OEMs do not want to lock-in with one technology supplier, I would assume an Ethernet switch vendor will try to expand their solutions.
Cisco already have servers , will they consider locking-in with Qlogic?
While reading Nikkei Business , I encountered a university graduates job hunting survey done by Disco .
My takes from the survey:
The following list shows the ranking of companies as perceived by the university graduates. While #1 is Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ bank, actually, the top 5 are banks and insurance companies, 6 and 7 are ANA and JAL (respectively) while the first manufacturing company is Suntory at #8. List continues with more financial companies, trade companies with Toyota at #9, Kirin at #14, Shiseido #17.
I personally find it troubling that Japanese young graduates prefer to work for financial and insurance companies which do not create nor manufacture. Moreover, most of these companies only active in Japan.
Looking at other aspects of the survey, when asked “what is the purpose of work”, the students preferred “just to live” over “pursue a dream”, “for myself” rather than “for society”.
76% do not consider changing jobs, only 27% expressed interest working outside Japan. 42% have no interest in personal success.
What can I do about it?
My mother is not a sophisticated user, she clicks and allows strange applications and websites to use her account, resulting in spamming her friends and Family (ME!).
Each time it happens, I try to block or mark the spammer, so I will not be disturbed again, but this is an impossible battler as my mother keeps finding new spammers.
Solution is very simple, Facebook should be in charge and better categorise spammers, or is it that Hebrew is not a high priority for them.
Facebook, please!
(As I can’t unfriend my mother)
My Ghostery plug-in found 33 trackers on The Economist website.
33!!!
Definitely a good reminder that there are so many companies who are hungry to collect information about me. What do I read, what are my interests, what do I buy.
And again, I am torn between the need for privacy and improving my experience. It is annoying that 1 minutes after surfing at a leather bag website, I get on Facebook an ad for that shop.
I am sure Facebook is making a lot of money out of it, but it feels … bad. I definitely Don’t want to reward these two companies by buying and always activating my “don’t buy that, you don’t really need this” mental plug-in.
Another step in my Leather Craft.
Moving from Book and Kindle cover, which are essentially flat to create this pen-case.
It was not easy, especially the size and the stitching at the bottom, but an important step to move to bigger things, like a Tote bag or a messenger Bag.
Japanese call my nose “tall”, 鼻が高い, while in Israel it was referred to as big, huge.
It usually draws nice attention from Japanese, but in some cases it is a real nuisance.
Yesterday I went to an Eye Doctor to get my regular check and my nose was “in the way”.
As I put my chin on the machine, the nurse operating it pushed it to my face, crashing my nose. When she wanted to switch from right eye to left, she just moved the machine, crashing my nose again.
She obviously apologised for it, saying that my nose is “tall”, but I didn’t feel the apology was genuine.
Maybe I should warn nurses Before starting the examination