John Hazard

There seems to be little doubt that some of the more than 100,000 Electronic Data Systems employees worldwide will be cut from the payroll when Hewlett-Packard completes its merger with EDS, but the number is giving employees and union reps heartburn, according to the Channel Register. Officials from Unite, a union representing EDS employees in […]

Rick%20Sanchez.jpg Just before 2 p.m. Sept. 12, in Morgan’s Point, Texas, CNN correspondent Rick Sanchez received a message while he was doing a live update on the approach of Hurricane Ike. The sender asked Sanchez whether her grandparents, living in Spring Valley, Texas, an inland Houston suburb, should evacuate ahead of Ike. Sanchez, still on […]

Catastrophic events such as storms, wars, financial meltdowns and disasters offer a unique opportunity for captivating observation (blow by blow news coverage) during the event and, later, exhausting review (post-event analysis). Hurricane Ike is no exception and for anyone interested in data center operations, backup and recovery, redundancy and how the hell to maintain 10,000 […]

There is no longer any doubt, Hurricane Ike is headed to Houston. Hewlett-Packard, with more than 8,000 employees in the Houston area, decided to close shop today, tomorrow and Sunday to let employees prepare homes and family for the storm, which most likely means evacuating. Houston is the primary home of HP’s Personal Systems Group […]

It’s been called the search for the God Particle, the very origins of the universe and the beginning of time. The effort is massive, akin to early days of the space program that put men on the moon in less than two decades. It involves extreme equipment – the Large Hadron Collider is a 16 […]

Arthur_ashe_stadium_interior.jpg When tennis player Mardy Fish relives his unexpectedly strong performance in the U.S. Open quarterfinals, he might be impressed with how he hung on against the world’s top player. He might also kick himself when he realizes how close he came to unseating the Wimbledon and Olympic champion, Rafael Nadal. Any coach, broadcaster, player […]

Richard Sarwal, VMware’s executive vice president of research and development, resigned his VMware post Sept. 2 and announced he is headed back to Oracle, from whence he came just nine months ago. VMware said Stephen Herrod, the company’s CTO and senior vice president of R&D, will “assume day-to-day responsibilities for VMware’s research and development organization,” […]

Silicon Valley could be the next Flint, Mich. Imagine it, once-manicured corporate campuses overgrown; corporate cafeterias where gourmet meals were once served to throngs of the well paid now serving as soup kitchens to the khaki-clad masses; grocery stores forced to sell inorganic brand names; Niman Ranch beef and $16 appetizers reserved for special occasions. […]

“UPDATE 2: Sarah Palin’s reps were full of it. Palin, the 44-year-old, first-term governor of the Kodiak state is and presumably always was McCain’s VP pick after all. I’ll blog on this later to see when Palin’s prospects first popped on InTrade and how it progressed.“ “UPDATE:So much for Crowd Sourcing … Pawlenty says, it […]

very_old_computer.jpg It is little wonder that the Federal Aviation Administration’s flight plan IT network crashed shortly after lunch Aug. 26, shutting down takeoffs at more than 40 airports nationwide. It is little wonder that the FAA’s IT staff and contractors had the system back up and running within a few hours. Smart, dedicated crews always […]