Year: 2014
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\”Wall Street’s internet darlings require an endless supply of idiots\”
With a headline like that, what’s not to like? [“Wall Street’s internet darlings require an endless supply of idiots”](http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/23/internet_economy_needs_infinite_supply_of_idiots/)
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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 with…
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The “Enterprise Cloud”
Early on, vendors who wanted to compete with AWS would speak to the idea of an “enterprise cloud.” All the US Federal activity that AWS had been up to – including that $600m private cloud for the CIA – seems to nullify most of that. I think what will be more important is targeting the…
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\”Wall Street’s internet darlings require an endless supply of idiots\”
With a headline like that, what’s not to like? “Wall Street’s internet darlings require an endless supply of idiots”
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Creative People Say No
parislemon: Kevin Ashton: Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know. We are not taught to say “no.” We are taught not…
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Who’s using DaaS
Citrix has a new DaaS service provider survey out. I’m often overly harsh on virtual desktops and, by extension, DaaS. I’m always curious who actually uses this stuff, so the vertical breakout is interesting: The largest number of service providers who responded listed financial services, healthcare and manufacturing as the vertical markets they served. This…
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Coté Memo #25 – VMware’s Cloud, Novell health-check, all with the face like this
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #025. Today we have 32 subscribers, so we’re +1. YEAH! 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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Well, this whole DevOps thing is going to rough, then
Smells like Agile in 2002: Your DevOps efforts will probably fail unless your entire management team buys into the required changes, and executives recognize that they’re going to have to change the way they operate, as well. Have fun storming the castle. Anecdotally, I hear fun tales of BigCo’s being befuddled by all the changes…
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Coté Memo #24 – “Can everyone mute their line? I just heard a toilet flush” Also: Zenoss
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #024. Today we have 31 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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HP software and channel sales
A summary of revenue: [HP’s] software division – IT Management, Application Development, Vertica, security and Autonomy – turned over $3.91bn in fiscal 2013 ended last November, down from $4.06bn in the previous year. With software, it’s good to focus on profits as well, as the margins are much higher. A common problem with large companies…
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Pivotal shows good momentum in helping build ‘programmable businesses’ (451 Report)
I wrote a brief update on Pivotal recently, the full report is available for clients. Here’s the 451 Take: Pivotal’s connection to the so-called ‘EMC Federation’ gives it an expansive portfolio, but we believe that Pivotal’s core message reduces to, “Hello, Global 2000 enterprises. The middleware stacks you use to build and run your enterprise…
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[Coté Memo #22] Nextdoor vs. Babycenter, Weird Fiction, VID & steaks
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #22. Today we have 30 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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[Coté Memo #021] Data MQs, Giving Feedback, Quantified Dogs
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #21. Today we have 30 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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Dell’s end-user device management portfolio, KACE, has grown revenue 5x since acquisition (451 Report)
I checked in with Dell’s end-user device management folks, KACE, recently and wrote up a report. Patching and all that isn’t exactly thrilling (but, as they say, necessary), however, it’s interesting to see the momentum the acquisition has had since 2010. Because we’d been collecting revenue from KACE over the years (thanks to Dennis), we…
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Hey, biz bods: OpenStack will be worth $3.3bn by 2018 (Register Column)
My new somewhat monthly column in the channel section of The Register is up. It goes over 451’s recent OpenStack market-sizing and relates some anecdotes about how common it is to get outside help with private cloud installs. You know, of interest to people who’d be reading up on channel stuff. One of the co-authors…
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How to write an executive strategy memo
When you’re asked to write an executive memo, you need (to learn how) to be concise and to the point. When I was at Dell, working in strategy, I wrote many “executive memos.” One of the senior executives, including Michael, had a question about entering a market, buying a company, etc. and wanted our input…
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[Coté Memo] Dell Cloud BOGO, M&A decisions by lunch, behind-the-scenes tech press shenanigans
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #20. Today we have 30 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. Stable! 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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Information companies can get from free wifi
Here, the example is in airports: It lets the airport team observe where certain areas might become congested, allowing quicker reaction and reducing the impact on passenger flow. Furthermore, the heatmapping functionality enables them to overlay demographics, which proves particularly useful when examining the use of certain spaces. Airports can ascertain where it would be…
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[Coté Memo #019] Selling DevOps, the WTF on industry analysts, champaign over health food
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #19. Today we have 30 subscribers, so we’re +1. 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). Sponsor Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference Oct…
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