Factors determining stock price

JNPR

Routers:
1) Juniper's market share in Edge Routers

Network Switches:
2) Juniper's market share in Bottom Layer Network Switches

Network Services:
3) Services Revenue (as % of product revenue)

Network Security & Other:
4) Network Security
5) Network Security Gross Profit Margin

NTAP

Storage Hardware:
1) Storage Hardware Pricing (per Gigabyte)
2) Storage Hardware Market Share (of Gigabytes)
3) Total storage market (Gigabyes)
4) External storage as % of total storage
5) Storage hardware gross margin

Software Maintenance:
6) NTAP storage software maintenance revenue as a % of storage software license revenue

Software Licenses:
7) NTAP storage software license revenue as a % of NTAP storage hardware revenue

Support & Consulting Services:
8) Services revenue as a % of hardware revenue

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Entry número uno:) super tiring week... Can't wait for Friday and the weekends to come. Wish those could stay awhile longer. But can't wait for the next few months to come sooner too... Guess I want my cake and eat it too.

My Big 5 for 2010 - cont'd

Five things that need to happen by the end of this year for you to feel its been your best year yet.

It's harder than I thought but here goes. In no particular order....

*Finish 10KM in Dec within 55mins or less and complete at least one 5KM run in 25mins

*Help others - find time for volunteer work and/or do something for others

*Research on a topic and post my findings on my blog at least once a quarter

*Identify my personal values and develop a mission statement for life

And one more to go.... any suggestions?

The day my iPhone came to the rescue

So it's no question that I'm pretty much an Apple convert today. I love using my iPhone and it's really a useful tool. There was one day when I had to get something done at a government agency. We brought down all the necessary paperwork but lo and behold, we missed one important document which we didn't know we had to bring it and without which, we can't get the administration process going.

Luckily, my dad reminded me that I had an attachment in my email (my trusty Gmail). I quickly searched for it, found it, opened up in PDF, showed it to the officer and she said that's the one! I emailed to her and she printed it and viola, I got the job accomplished without having to drive back home to get the document.

Thank goodness for technology. Thank goodness for iPhone.

I heart my iPhone

I never thought I'd one day say this, but I really think I do love my iPhone.


Firstly, you've got to know I'm no Apple fan although I was once dazzled by their iPod some years ago (when I was working for another digital audio brand...) and loved my iPod Nano which I had purchased last year. Other than that, I had serious user problem operating my first Mac during Uni days (since I was a true blue Windows gal) but I must say, this little smartphone gadget is really one of its kind.


Firstly, to own an iPhone, one must rethink about mobile phones and its functions or capabilities it'd have today. Back years ago, when I had my first Ericsson then, a mobile phone was a mere device for people to reach others easily without the hassle of finding a public phone to return calls from tiny paging gadgets.


I guess it's really a case of right time (or in this case, right technology) where supply meets and fuels demand. With the advent of technologies like WiMax, Edge, 3G etc, the mobile world becomes the new "fast speed Internet" platform for us to access information any time, almost anywhere and everywhere on any smartphone devices.


To fuel this further , smartphone vendors help boost demand with faster, seamless OS to aid application access on their devices... and soon, adding and enhancing security on them so that users like you and I can access secured private information back to corporate or personal sites. Do you hear cloud computing humming in the background of all these?


There are many things I can do on my phone now - surfing the Internet, reading emails, watching videos online, chatting with friends and colleagues, updating my facebook, twitter and other social network mediums, posting my other online profiles and status etc etc and so many more.... The usage is pretty endless and exciting.


If I were a smartphone apps developer, I think my chances of making my first million in this lifetime is a pretty feasible quest.


I chanced upon this article that was trying to size up the market potential of iPhone users in Singapore. And the data is pretty compelling.
http://digitalmedia.typepad.com/digital_media_observation/2009/11/how-many-more-apples-iphone-3g-users-can-we-add-in-singapore.html


There's an estimated 1M+ iPhone users in Singapore by 2010... and if we assume one user makes 12 apps 'purchases' a year, that's 12M+ transactions in a year. Assume if one wants to capture 10% of this market and charge $0.99 per app, that's about $1.1M+ business revenue we're looking at in a year...


It's just amazing - makes one wonder how to get one's fingers in the pie.

My Big 5 for 2010

Five things that need to happen by the end of this year for you to feel its been your best year yet.

It's harder than I thought but here goes. In no particular order....

*Finish 10KM in Dec within 55mins or less and complete at least one 5KM run in 25mins

*Help others - find time for volunteer work and/or do something for others

*Research on a topic and post my findings on my blog at least once a quarter

I haven't quite figured out what my last two should be... but hopefully in the next month or so, I'd be greatly inspired by something or someone to pen down my big 5 for 2010.

Wish me luck!

How far will you let technology run your life?

We live in the modern world where the Internet and devices of all forms and sizes like smart phones, laptop and gadgets are a part of our daily lives. In fact, most of us can't function if we don't have our phones with us or don't surf or use the Net at least once a day for emails and watching online videos. We probably own more than one such devices to get connected, communicate and learn or educate ourselves and others about the latest knowledge and events in the world via the WWW.

I couldn't help laughing when I saw this video. It's a clip about this couple in the midst of their most significant moment of their lives - their wedding in church. It's a most solemn and serious affair, until the groom decides to whip out his smartphone (I'm guessing iPhone) to change his relationship status on facebook right there and then.

Watch it and learn about this new generation. Enjoy.

http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-sg&vid=f8bacc8f-3624-484d-b3ed-a89af924c0df

How many user error incidents can one have in a lifetime?

What was suppose to be a 'good' Friday for me turned out to be a bummer.

I was suppose to run today, according to my nike+ coach but I had program tonight plus I know I won't be able to make it for morning run as I have a 9.30am call to make. So, I'm already feeling somewhat inbetween the whole day. Thus, I decided I'd lunch in, get back to work ASAP then target to go home around 5ish to do a quick run before I set off for the night.

Now, here is the user error incident yet again with me. When I logged in to my nike+ site, I forgot there is the US version and the SG version. What's the difference you ask? Well, the difference is that one of them calculate distance in miles and the other in kilometers.

So, silly me just logged in to the 'default' one, without checking carefully if it is miles or km they were recording and just blindly took down the distance I was suppose to cover according to the 'training plan'.

Somewhat happily came back from run and load up reading only to find that I am 2km+ short of target because what I had assumed was 4km was actually 4miles.... So that meant I was suppose to cover 6.43km or so today but I had only completed 4.12km.

But I was quite disappointed with self today also. I had set target for 5km but at around 3ish, I was feeling tired and sore already. Don't really know what's wrong... too much focus on my foot landing I lost my focus to push myself on? Am I coming down with something?

Anyway, next target on Sunday is a holy 9.53km... longest ever distance to-date. I hope I can make that one in time and in one piece... don't want the cookie to crumble, do we?