Year: 2014
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More on the Compuware go private plan, APM
Sell more APM, grow marketshare, probably over at 4-5 year term: The APM market is fragmented. We are the only APM vendor with more than 10 percent share. We can’t reach our potential without joining forces with the channel. No APM vendor has more than 20 percent share, and we aim to change that. If…
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The answer, Sacconaghi thinks, is a bunch of things: CEOs and their CIOs don’t believe in IT value as much today as they used to, even though they do still believe in it; factors such as commoditization have led to deflation in IT prices; customers are hesitant because various new ‘architectures” such as cloud computing,…
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Coté Memo #030: SolidFire’s foray into OpenStack, Crowd-sourcing DevOps
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #030. Today we have 38 subscribers, so we’re +2. Nice! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, you should subscribe to get the daily email.) See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they…
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#DevOps crowdchat
http://www.via-cc.at/11qp9 Is that anything? Trying out one of the whacky new pseudo social-marketing dinguses.
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Coté Memo #29: vRealize almost explained, Compuware gets bought, 1 year at 451
(I cross post my week-daily newsletter here, but also feel free to subscribe to it directly if you’d don’t want to follow CoteIndustries.com regularly.) Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #29. Today we have 36 subscribers, so we’re +3 – good job, subscribers! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If…
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Cloud == speed, pt. 2, or, Developers moving at public cloud speed driving IT transformation
WTH: How do you see the path towards the software-defined Data centre? AB: What I believe is driving this trend is that developers and organisations are looking to move extremely fast. Developers are getting used to the paradigm of going on AWS (Amazon Web Services) and getting resources immediately instead of weeks/months of provisioning time.…
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Momentum at Constellation Research, customer numbers
That old pay to play model just doesn’t suit us. So this makes it hard to make it all work. We know it’s tough, but we also know it’s worth pursuing. We do have to thank over 100 sell side (vendor) and 200+ buy side (end users) clients. And to address someone else’s comment, these…
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Coté Memo #28: Yet another DevOps landscape, webinar tips for analysts
(I’ve had a little email newsletter for sometime. It’s fun! People like it and write to me! Rather than rely on the archiving at TinyLetter, I thought I’d post the archives here. However, feel free to subscribe to the newsletter in its proper format, email…or just read it here, whatever you like.) Meta-data Hello again,…
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Hardware is the price variable
With EVO, VMware is pitting the hardware vendors against each other for deals that will likely involve hundreds to thousands of nodes in large enterprises, and the competition will drive down hardware prices and therefore the overall price of the EVO solution. If hardware costs less than it might otherwise without such pressure, that extra…
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The decline of Novell
I’ve been reading up on Novell’s history. So far it’s got some fascinating twists and turns. Wikipedia sums up the turning point well: The inclusion of networking as a core system component in all mainstream PC operating systems after 1995 led to a steep decline in Novell’s market share. That is, once networking become “commoditized,”…
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How to be a hardware analyst…?
After reading an, as ever, great, deep coverage of some new fangled piece of hardware from TPM, I got to thinking: I don’t really know how hardware analysts approach their craft. What framing and context do they use to understand, evaluate, and judge any given chunk of hardware? I’ve never been much of a hardware…
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In an API-driven cloud, Intigua wants to wrap APIs around your management midsection
A report I wrote on Intigua is up now. Here’s the 451 Take for y’all now: Intigua has always been a company with a difficult marketing proposition, having started off as a packaging and deployment balm for systems management agents. While there is certainly utility to ‘managing the managers,’ a broader positioning and purpose was…
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underdevpodcast: Summary We discuss thinking beyond human error as Bill starts to summarize the book Behind Human Error. It’s always helpful to look at how the system and process caused the wrong move. Also, thinking about hardware, and some nice feedback from designers. Subscribe to the feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/UnderDevPodcast Your friends @cote and @BillHiggins Hardware, what…
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Zenoss is on the hunt for large enterprises with a little help from Hadoop and Docker (451 Report)
Back in my RedMonk days, I spoke with Zenoss a lot, so it was nice to finally catch-up with them again. They’re moving up-market and adding spending much time beefing up their back-end to handle the resulting, larger scale demands for a systems management platform in the enterprise space. The full report is available for…
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Coté Memo #27: More on VMworld, Intigua and systems management APIs,
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #27. Today we have 33 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsors Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference Oct…
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Treating OpenStack like a spec, not a stack at #vmworld
Good, thorough piece from TPM on VMware’s OpenStack and Docker stuff this week, inc.: The lesson to be learned from this is that OpenStack is just a framework for how the components of a cloud are controlled, but it does not prescribe any particular component for compute, networking, storage, or management. Treating OpenStack like a…
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Coté Memo: 3:30am plastic man traveling, keeping up the VMware’s CAGR
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #26. Today we have 33 subscribers, so we’re +1. DANDY! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsors Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference…
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Teradici’s remote workstation access product paves the way for a new type of WaaS (451 Report)
As you may recall, I write about virtual desktop stuff from time-to-time. Teradici recently launched a new workstation remote access package for engineers and CAD/CAM types. My 451 report on the topic is out, co-authored with Scott Ottaway. Teradici is an interesting company in this space as they get most of their revenue (70-75%) from…
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What VMware means when they say “hybrid cloud”
Gartner’s @cloudpundit has a great way of summing up VMware’s future-proofing problems when it comes to their strategy. tl;dr: they need to straddle two worlds, pre-cloud and post-cloud infrastructure. When VMware says “hybrid cloud,” that straddling of “legacy” IT and “real cloud” seems to be what they mean: That brings us to VMware (and many…
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Facebook ads don’t work too well for \”enterprise\” types
> I am going to sound incredibly churlish here but why on earth Lionel Messi could possibly like our stuff is well beyond my imagination. Flattering though it might be. The same goes for the 20 year career short order cook who posts cat pictures, the retired person who joined Facebook last week, the nurse…
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