Category: Thoughts

My transatlantic 1o1 travelguide

This week I was the guest at SpeakingInTech podcast. It was just the result of Greg Knieriemen flying in through Brussels and we had a […]

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Brussels, capital of Europe. Worst pupil in innovation class.

It’s a pitty most of my readers will miss half of the fuzz as according to Google Analytics, only 15% of you is from Belgium. […]

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Why Community is not Marketing

Ok, I’ll admit. It’s a controversial title but what it comes down to is why I feel that running a professional community is different from […]

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Fooled by Marketing Metrics – part 3

In Part 1 I discussed the (ab)use of SAVINGS. In Part 2 the focus went to DOLLAR per UNIT. In this third, and for now […]

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Fooled by Marketing Metrics – part 2

In Part 1, I pointed at the use of the word SAVINGS in Marketing where using new technology to their extremes would save you money. […]

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Fooled by Marketing Metrics – part 1

Yet another rant that will get me in even more trouble than I was before, trying to find a role in technical marketing. This time […]

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Year End Review for the Conference warriors

I don’t do Merry Christmas or Chanukkah holiday cards. I also don’t really like next-year-predictions. What I do from time to time is looking back […]

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Why I think Big Data IS “the new style of IT”

Actually I’m playing with you here as the title of this post is just a rip-off of Luigi Tiano‘s post: Why I think Big Data […]

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3 discussions on Virtualization Management

This month I was, together with Ethan Banks, the Solarwinds Thwack Ambassador. The Ambassadors take some extra time to, beyond the regular conversations on the […]

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Converged Architectures: it’s the use case, stupid!

Converged infrastructure There are two types of converged infrastructure: the one click sale all components in one SKU of which we know VCE vBLOCK, NetApp […]

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The X-th platform expectations

This is another one of those -cut the crap and use your common sense- posts. Earlier today I had a twitter conversation with one of […]

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4 tips for My Marketing Utopia

A few weeks ago I pulled my first blogpost ever; “The Marketing Wall of Shame” where I would give a central location for competitive vendor […]

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