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		<title>Are we prisoners of our preconceptions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We wish to express our gratitude to Jonah Lehrer for his permission to share an excerpt from Chapter 7, The Brain Is An Argument, in his 2009 bestseller &#8220;How We Decide&#8220;.Â  To fully understand the context of the excerpt I recommend that you read the book. Mr. Lehrer wrote, &#8220;There&#8217;s something unsettling about seeing the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How will Iron Mountain respond to Elliott Management&#8217;s letter to its BoD?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Mellor over at The Register published an interesting article this morning titled &#8220;Iron Mountain Hit By Hedge Fund Attack&#8221; in which he described the effort of Elliott Management&#8217;s Paul Singer to allegedly persuade Iron Mountain to consider forming a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).Â  At least two of the nominees for IRMâ€™s Board of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Value of Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in November 2008 we published an opinion about determining the value of information titled &#8220;Outcomes and the Value of Information&#8220;. Recently, Martin Sumner-Smith published a post titled &#8220;The Implicit Value of Content is Realized Through Business Process&#8221; to his blog Martin&#8217;s Fulcrum Musings in which he talks about the impact of process on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the real cost of your business applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Pelz-Sharpe of the Real Story Group, a very reputable analyst firm serving the web and enterprise technology markets, recently published a post titled The High Cost of Support about the annual support fees levied by CMS vendors. In response to Alanâ€™s post I wrote: An application vendor&#8217;s support fee is a costly component of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>On information sharing and value generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Vinson of Knowledge Jolt with Jack recently published a post titled Share it, don&#8217;t just store it. We share Jack&#8217;s perspective that just storing information is pointless. The value is in knowing what you have, where it can be found and putting it to use. In response to Jack&#8217;s post I wrote: &#8220;Incentives and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Myopia and self-interest hurt government, business, community and family</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vinnie Mirchandani over at Deal Architect wrote another great post titledÂ Alarming IT data points. In it he discusses everything from external dependencies and a lack of innovation at IT companies, to what he believes to be out-of-control costs and a shift in CIO focus. In response to Vinnie&#8217;s post I wrote: Vinnie, all of this [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Relationships are broken, not just in Big Tech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vinnie Mirchandani over at Deal Architect recently wrote a post titled Big Tech is Broken &#8211; badly. InÂ it he wrote thatÂ he has &#8220;never seen this much acknowledgement that our big technology companies are inefficient organisms&#8221; The disappointment and discontentment (with product and process) has always been there. I experienced it nearly every day in my [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Devil&#8217;s advocate on open source</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Mark Taylor&#8216;s recently published blog post Open Source: It&#8217;s not just cheap!&#8211;one of thousands written about the benefits and pitfalls of open source software. In his post, Mark referenced a Frank Scavo quotation from Chris Kanaracus&#8217;s July 2010 article about Open Source ERP. Apparently Frank, an IT consultant, wrote the following [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Storage Awareness: Minimize the economic impact of your business applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight years ago my career collided with reality.Â  By way of serendipity&#8211;following an unplanned career change&#8211;I discovered I had been living the last decade in a product development bubble. Two thousand and two was the year I had transitioned from building information management systems to managing a small storage industry analyst firm. Up until 2002 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ILM is alive and well</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Martins]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed speaking with David West. He&#8217;s one of the relatively few people within the storage industry&#8217;s sell-side who genuinely seeks to understand information management &#8211; the industry from which I leapt into storage. After I read David&#8217;s recent blog post ILM: What&#8217;s Old is New Again, in which he wrote about the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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