Year: 2014
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Docker: IaaS or PaaS? Reflections on DockerCon EU (451 Research)
As mentioned in my newsletter recently, I typed up a think piece on Docker (the company and the emerging ecosystem after it’s EU conference earlier this month. 451 clients can read it behind the paywall, but here’s the 451 Take: The ecosystem around the Docker container technology is in the process of figuring out Docker’s…
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As we have grown and evolved, we’ve realized that the best salespeople don’t have to necessarily be trained in retail. They just need to be trained in life. http://fortune.com/2014/12/26/container-store-sharon-tindell/
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I don’t get why that sort of violence is supposed to be funny. It’s like the Three Stooges with hatchets. Anyway, I liked it more than I expected to. http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2014/12/25/instant-review-the-interview/
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“Hybrid cloud ROI isn’t there, and the complexity is huge.”
From Steven Sinofsky: As an enterprise, the pragmatic thing to do is go public cloud and operate existing infrastructure as legacy, without trying to sprinkle cloud on it or spend energy trying to deeply integrate with a cloud solution. The transition to client-server, GUI or Web all provide ample evidence in failed bridge solutions, a…
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Whitehurst commentary in Red Hat numbers
Good commentary, as always, from Red Hat’s CEO. I appreciate all the “color” that team tends to give on their numbers. Whitehurst commentary in Red Hat numbers
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Generally speaking, there are only a few ways to make money on the Internet. There are e-commerce companies and marketplaces – think Amazon, eBay and Uber – that profit from transactions occurring on their platforms. Hardware companies, like Apple or Fitbit, profit from gadgets. For everyone else, though, it more or less comes down to…
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Coté Memo #059: Containers make butter-scotch pudding delicious and floors shine
Tech & Work World Floor wax, dessert topping As I mention below, I’ve had more time to write reports recently. I just submitted one titled “Docker: floor-wax or dessert topping? Reflections on DockerCon EU”. It’s one of our “spotlight” pieces, which means it’s an open-ended think-piece rather than a write-up of a briefing. Here’s some…
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StackStorm automates and monitors a core DevOps asset: the software delivery pipeline – 451 Report
I’ve been speaking with StackStorm on and off for a few months now. I finally got around to writing up a report on them, available for clients. Here’s the 451 Take: StackStorm fancies itself an automation company, and with experience from Opalis Software, it’s little wonder. What’s interesting about its approach is that it’s automating…
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Rather than looking from the present out to the future, we need to look from the future back to the present to determine which actions will have the greatest impact and create the most economic value over time. http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2014/12/the-big-shift-in-strategy-part-1.html There’s a few more mouth-fulls in there, but the distinction between “terrain” and “hustle” strategies is…
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Coté Memo #058: Cloud ads, amateur coffee drinkers, orchiwhu?
Follow-up Confirmed: ActiveState is far from dead ;) One of you notified me that maybe coffee isn’t so bad for your health – really, who knows. I hear eating a lot of bread was once a thing too. From the article: Why the apparent reversal in the thinking about coffee? Earlier studies didn’t always take…
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Who’s in the CI/CD space, and what is it?
I’m starting to put together some research into CI/CD. That might even be the wrong name: I’m more interested in starting to catalog different parts (and vendors/projects) in The DevOps Pipeline. Looking at Jenkins and crew seems like a good start. Inspired by @krishnan’s ever excellent Docker ecosystem mind-map, I thought I’d start one for…
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Coté Memo #057: Is Cloud Foundry a Thing, EU Coffee, and developers
Tech & Work World The Cloud is Developers It’s an exaggeration, but for the most part “cloud” is all about supporting developers. What I mean by this is that it’s not exactly the best way to run packaged applications: there’s VMware, Linux, etc. for that it seems. When I was working on cloud strategy at…
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The first wave of IBM/Apple enterprise iOS apps
A good looking list from the press release: Plan Flight (Travel and Transportation) addresses the major expense of all airlines — fuel — permitting pilots to view flight schedules, flight plans, and crew manifests ahead of time, report issues in-flight to ground crews, and make more informed decisions about discretionary fuel. Passenger+ (Travel and Transportation)…
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You want people to work as much as possible to push the product and company out of uncertain territory into profitability, right? Wrong. What you will do is push people to the edge of burnout and unhappiness. They’ll eventually leave your company. From Open (Unlimited) to Minimum Vacation Policy This is a management point I’ve…
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The video recording of this week’s Software Defined Talk, right there. If you prefer audio (I do!) check out the official show-notes. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Good journalism takes money. If you are made to pay, it’s to serve you better and please you
The advertisements will be a little bigger, too, and my advice is for you not to complain, but to engage with our sponsors, who pay the bills around this joint and who make our strategic, tactical, and technical material possible. I’m a fan of everything TPM writes, he’s excellent and his coverage is always deep…
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Cloud is developers
I often brow-beat people into the notion that “cloud is all about developers.” That’s hyperbolic – there’s actually a lot more to cloud than just supporting custom written software…and yet, that seems like the bulk of it. By “developers” I mean you’re running a SaaS (you’re a company who sells the SaaS, like an “ISV”…
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Better get a referral
Referrals account for between 30 and 50% of hires in the US. In a paper published earlier this year, researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and MIT studied data from a financial services company, and found that while referrals only made up about 6% of total applications, they resulted in more than…
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Coté Memo #056: the $110,000 a year blogger, investing in barf bags
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Puppet Labs pushes ahead with more staff, broader enterprise DevOps deployments – a recent 451 Research report from Jay Lyman on my team, now free for everyone. Software Defined Talk #17: DevOps is the New Agile – another fine episode of Software Defined Talk. Be sure to check out…
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Coté Memo #056: the $110,000 a year blogger, investing in bark bags
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Puppet Labs pushes ahead with more staff, broader enterprise DevOps deployments – a recent 451 Research report from Jay Lyman on my team, now free for everyone. Software Defined Talk #17: DevOps is the New Agile – another fine episode of Software Defined Talk. Be sure to check out…
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