Year: 2015
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Link: 16 mobile theses
“That doesn’t remotely mean that Microsoft is dead, but it has to work out how to use the cash and market position of the legacy monopolies to help it build new businesses.” Source: 16 mobile theses
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Link: IBM Focused on 3 Major Languages: Java, Node.js and Swift
“At IBM we believe there are really three key languages that are going to be needed for the future around cloud and mobile: Java, Node.js/JavaScript and Swift,” Phil Buckellew, vice president of enterprise mob Source: IBM Focused on 3 Major Languages: Java, Node.js and Swift
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Link: Ford teams with Pivotal, bets on Cloud Foundry
“As for the Pivotal partnership, Ford will use Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry and big data suit e to build its connected vehicle program. So far, Ford said it has sped up software development times from months to weeks using agile techniques.” Source: Ford teams with Pivotal, bets on Cloud Foundry
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Addressing the DevOps compliance problem
Satisfying the mythical auditors is often one of the first barriers to spreading DevOps initiatives more widely inside an organization. While these process-driven barriers can be annoying and onerous, once you follow the DevOps tradition of empathetic inclusion — being all “one team” — they can not only stop slowing you down but actually help the overall quality of…
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Link: Middleware-as-a-service turns enterprise integration on its head – Reseller News
“Global analyst firm Ovum forecasts the global spend on middleware software is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.8 percent between 2014 and 2019, amounting to $US22.8 billion by end of 2019.” Source: Middleware-as-a-service turns enterprise integration on its head – Reseller News
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Link: Billionaire CEO and investor Marc Benioff says unicorn startups manipulated private markets and he’s done investing in them
“The unicorn thing, I’ve been saying for a while now, is not great,” Benioff told Stephanie Ruhle on Bloomberg GO earlier this week. “The reason why it’s not great is not necessarily that these companies are not worth this much money or whatever — we don’t actually know because they’ve manipulated the private markets to…
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Link: Apple Watch by the (estimated) numbers, and 11 claimed myths about the wearable
Round up of marketshare and commentary on the Apple Watch from Horace’s Apple Watch conference. 80% of wearable market, they say. Source: Apple Watch by the (estimated) numbers, and 11 claimed myths about the wearable
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Link: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion in 2019 Led by Widespread Initiatives
“According to a new IDC Spending Guide, worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow at a 17.0% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from $698.6 billion in 2015 to nearly $1.3 trillion in 2019.” I think IoT is becoming mor like IoEverything. Source: Internet of Things Spending Forecast to Reach Nearly $1.3 Trillion…
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Link: Wearables marketshare from IDC
“Fitbit with 22.2%, Apple with 18.6%, and Xiaomi with 17.4%. Of course, in such a new product category, market share can be volatile, but they are far ahead of the No. 4 player, Garmin (4.1%), which largely caters to hard-core runners.” Source: Wearables marketshare from IDC
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Link: Microservices Beyond the Hype: What You Gain and What You Lose
Pretty good benefits/problem list, plus commentary on the “autonomy” angle. Source: Microservices Beyond the Hype: What You Gain and What You Lose
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Link: Usage of Apple Watch by British Airways Passengers
“Apple watches now account for more than five per cent of app usage, giving customers access to real-time flight status, gate information, a countdown to the departure time and the weather at their destination.” Source: Usage of Apple Watch by British Airways Passengers
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Link: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016
“The roughly 60 or so publicly traded software companies hold more than $380B in cash and short term investments on their balance sheets. Though Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Oracle possess 75% of that cash, 14 other companies have cash reserves of greater than $500M.” Source: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016
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Link: H-E-B creates online store with nationwide delivery service
HEB is the mega grocery chain, operating in much of Texas. It’s a sort of “mini-globalism” for them to sell globally. A lot of the local, in store brands they have are the kinds of things people visiting home would stock up on when they went back north or abroad, so there’s probably a good…
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Link: How coffee loves us back – round-up of positive coffee studies
It looks like we’re cool to drink coffee. Source: How coffee loves us back – round-up of positive coffee studies
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Link: Why CA left the DCIM market
“According to IDC, the market will reach $576 million in revenue this year – up from $475 million in 2014 — and hit close to $1 billion by 2019.” That’s a really small market to be operating in, no matter what your marketshare. Also, check out the quote from Rhonda at 451! Source: Why CA…
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Link: Forrester/IBM Report: ‘Great’ apps monetize five times better than good ones
Survey commissioned by IBM to find out what makes mobile apps great. Then, of course, it seeks to tie more success (revenue) to that greatness. n=”1,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and India.” Source: Forrester/IBM Report: ‘Great’ apps monetize five times better than good ones
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Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Western European Employees View IT as a Technical Resource, Not a Digital Advisor
While employees are feeling more and more computer literate, they’re valuing the IT department less. Once again, IT has to reestablish itself as a source of innovation instead of cost-cutting, light-bulb illuminators. “Keep moving and get out of the way,” and all that. n=” online survey gathered data from 1,000 employees in Western Europe from…
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Link: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC
“Worldwide PC shipments totaled 70.7 million units in 3Q15, up 8.6% sequentially but down 11.1% from the previous year.” Source: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC
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Coté Memo #081: The best steak I’ve ever eaten, and the slow train problem
Tech & Work World How Microservices Fixes the Slow Train Problem I write little columns for the internal Pivotal newsletter we have sometimes. Here’s one that’s about to go out. The ideas of “dependencies” and “coupling” are important touch points for understanding and conveying the software delivery benefits of a microservices approach to architecture. “Coupling”…
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Coté Memo #080: Come on, register for this God damn webinar
This week is a lull in travel. I’m closing out the year by going to lots of DevOpsDays (Charlotte, where I’m speaking, and Silicon Valley next week), a few internal summits, and my first Gartner show, where I’m speaking in a sponsored slot. Tech & Work World Shameless Self Promotion “You should put that on…
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