Nimble Storage was founded in 2008 on the core belief that the storage industry would experience a major transformation over the next decade, driven by two fundamental catalysts: First, that flash technology would require a ground-up storage system redesign, rendering incumbent disk-centric storage architectures inefficient and ineffective. Second, that cloud-based management with granular real...

In 2007, the editorial home of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management will be leaving Asia for the first time—in fact leaving its founding school, the National University of Singapore (NUS), for the first time. Founded in 1983, APJM is the oldest and most prominent academic journal in the management field that is in Asia, on Asia, and of Asia. The move out of Asia is significant, because it una...

The recent Mexican presidential elections and the fiasco that followed demonstrate the difficulties involved in making a fledgling democracy successful. With its unique history of turmoil and bloodshed, corruption and autocracy, Mexico has a lot to prove to the world and itself if it is to create trust in its new political structure. Despite the government’s extensive preparations, the most rec...

Policy Forum T he Chilean health system has been studied extensively [1]. Its current form is the result of a major reform undertaken by the Pinochet government following the coup d'état in 1973. Pinochet's reform established competition between public and private health insurers and promoted private health services, following neoliberal principles. Neoliberalism is an economic and political mo...

y corner of the national security law world is abuzz today reading the outstanding New York Times article by Jo Becker and Scott Shane, “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will.” As Ben Wittes says at Lawfare, it is a richly textured, detailed look at how the administration approaches targeted killing (whether with drones or human teams or in combination), and is the mos...

deadline may have past, it does not mean you should not consider attending. Hopefully, an overview of the meeting program (page 59) and a check of the EB website will encourage you to consider participating if you have not already submitted an abstract and

ROSENBERG (1977) put forward a hypothesis concerning the mechanism of anticancer activity of cis-platinum complexes in vivo. According to this hypothesis, the simple cytotoxic effect is accompanied by an enhanced expression of cancer antigens on the surface of malignant cells. Therefore, the observed regression of malignant growth is at least partly due to the immunological response of the orga...

Serving as SIAM President was a unique opportunity for me to observe and participate in the process by which we establish scientific policy in this country. As is inevitable in such circumstances, I brought my personal perspective to these activities. Here I describe some of my experiences, express my opinions and speculate on research trends. Perhaps my biggest struggle as SIAM President was t...