Cloud Computing: Lenovo and EMC Now Strategic Partners

In a rare outreach Lenovo has teamed up with EMC, which will get another entry into the vast Chinese market through its new partner.

The pair is going to form an SMB-focused storage joint venture.

They've also got a server technology development program to extend Lenovo's nascent capabilities in the x86 server segment. The servers will be brought to market by Lenovo and embedded into selected EMC storage systems over time. It could threaten HP.

Lenovo is supposed to provide EMC's networked storage solutions to its customers, initially in China and then in other global markets. Both companies are supposed do R&D in servers and storage.

Finally, EMC and Lenovo plan to bring "certain assets and resources" from EMC's Iomega business into a new joint venture that will provide Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems to SMBs and distributed enterprise sites, where EMC is seeing rising demand and use of infrastructure-demanding private clouds.

Lenovo wants to be "a leader in the new PC-plus era." EMC expects to significantly expand its presence in China.

The $30 billion-a-year Lenovo will put cash in the joint venture. EMC will contribute those Iomega assets and resources. Lenovo will have the majority interest - presumably that means 51% - and can probably expect better margins than it's used to from PCs. Lenovo currently ships more PCs than anybody else except HP.

It's expecting to see billions from the partnership and wants to grow its 15% share of the Chinese server market to a position of dominance, spring-boarding it into the global market.

Ostensibly Lenovo is replacing Dell, whose close partnership with EMC fell apart because of Dell's storage acquisitions. Of course Lenovo's SMB markets are sexier than Dell's, especially since Europe is such a downer.

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I am an author and independent researcher, covering innovation, information technology trends and markets. I also can be found speaking (and listening!) at business IT, cloud and SOA industry events and Webcasts. I serve on the program committee for this year's SOA & Cloud Symposium in London. I am also one of 17 co-authors of the SOA Manifesto, which outlines the values and guiding principles of service orientation in business and IT. Much of my research work is in conjunction with Unisphere Research/ Information Today, Inc. for user groups including SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, Independent Oracle Users Group and International DB2 Users Group. I am also a contributor to CBS interactive, authoring the ZDNet "Service Oriented" site, and CBS interactive's SmartPlanet "Business Brains" site. In a previous life, I served as communications and research manager of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields. I am a graduate of Temple University.

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Google Quietly Preparing Chrome OS for Tablets

A series of changes to Google Chrome OS’s source code provide the clearest indication yet that the search giant is preparing its notebook OS for the tablet form factor.

Google has toyed with the idea of bringing Chrome OS to tablets; it even made mockups and concepts of a tablet running Chrome OS last year, and it’s had intentions to include touch for a while. Still, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt stated last year that Android was for touch and Chrome OS was for keyboards.

The line between Android and Chrome OS is about to be blurred though, according to CNET. It has uncovered several changes to the Chrome and Chrome OS source code that indicate work is being done on a tablet version. The changes include new references to a touch version of Chrome OS, references to tablet Chrome OS devices and a touch-optimized new tab page.

If Google really is preparing for the release of a tablet version of Chrome OS, what does that mean for its existing tablet OS, Android Honeycomb? The most prominent tablet running Honeycomb, the Motorola Xoom, has sold around 100,000 units, an okay start for a new device running a new OS but nothing compared to iPad 2 sales.

Is Google testing Chrome OS on tablets as an experiment, or does it plan to try a different strategy to compete with the iPad? One thing’s for sure: it won’t be long until we find out.

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Bearish Pressure Building on Atheros Communications Inc.; ATHR - Learning Markets

Atheros Communications Inc. (ATHR) [Chart - Analysis - News] gained some ground during trading yesterday, but it appears there is some bearish pressure building up in the background. Looking at yesterday's money flows, $1.49 million left the stock. Only $6.03 million flowed into the stock on uptick trades while $7.51 million flowed in on downtick trades---giving ATHR an up/down ratio of 0.51.

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The question is, will ATHR continue rising or will increasing bearish sentiment help turn things around and start pushing the stock price lower? ATHR has lost 6.88% during the past month and is currently trading below its 20-day, 50-day and 200-day moving averages.

Watching money flows can provide traders with a glimpse into investor sentiment. When money flows are positive---more money is flowing in on uptick trades than is on downtick trades---it shows traders are confident the stock price is going to continue rising. When money flows are negative---more money is flowing in on downtick trades than is on uptick trades---it shows traders are confident the stock price is going to continue falling.

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Train your customers

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Train your customers

Yes, you can train them. By rewarding some behaviors over others, by keeping some promises not others, by having some expectations instead of others, you get the audience you deserve. Some things you can train customers to do:

• Be respectful
• Be patient
• Keep their satisfaction to themselves
• Be selfish
• Be focused on a superstar
• Demand personal service
• Be calm
• Never settle for the current iteration
• Be cheap
• Embrace acceptance
• Spread the word
• Expect pampering
• Demand free
• Be eager to switch brands to save a buck
• Value and honor long-term loyalty
• Be skeptical

The customers you fire and those you pay attention to all send signals to the rest of the group.

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Foundation elements for modern businesses

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Foundation elements for modern businesses

When you sit down to dream up a new business, you can imagine a world without constraints. Or you can choose to build in fundamental pieces that will make it more likely your idea will pay off.

Here are some fundamental pieces of most new successful businesses. The goal is to build these elements into the very nature of the business itself, not just to tack them on. For example, the Scotch tape people at 3M can't do #5, because of the structure of retail distribution and the way they mass produce and can't track who is buying what.

You can live without some of these, but go in with your eyes open if you do:

1. Build in virality. Consider: Groupon.
2. Don't sell a product that can be purchased cheaper at Amazon.
3. Subscriptions beat one-off sales.
4. Try to create an environment where your customers are happier when there are other customers doing business with you (see #1).
5. Treat different customers differently.
6. Generate joy, don't just satisfy a need for a commodity.
7. Rely on unique individuals, not an easily copyable system.
8. Plan on remarkable experiences, not remarkable ads.
9. Don't build a fortress of secrets, bet on open.
10. Unless there's a differentiating business reason, use off the shelf software and cheap cloud storage.
11. The asset of the future is the embrace of a tribe, not a cheaper widget.
12. Match expenses to cash flow--don't run out of money, because it's no longer 1999.
13. Create scarcity but act with abundance. Free samples create demand for the valuable (but not unlimited) tier you offer.
14. Tell a story, erect a mythology, walk the walk.
15. Plan on obsolescence (of your products, not your customers).

Notes:

3. The cost of selling a subscription to your product or service is not a lot higher than the cost of selling just one, but you benefit by having sales you can count on at low cost. Your customers benefit because you depend on them more and they save time.

5. Everyone has different needs and expectations and resources. The internet lets you tell people apart and give them what they need.

7. AKA as Linchpins.

9. If you're building a business on trade secrets or lack of information among your customers, you're trying to fill a leaky bucket. Far easier to bet on the more people know, the better you do.

10. Because cheap software and the cloud are going to continue to get cheaper, and custom work that's worth anything is going to continue to get more expensive.

12. The best people to fund your growth are your customers.

13. When the marginal cost of an interaction approaches zero, you benefit by creating plenty of them.

14. We can tell.

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