Year: 2015
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The growth story was, like Amazon, all about the cloud. Ben Thompson on his latest newsletter, on Microsoft’s earnings.
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Chip Childers and the Cloud Foundry Foundation – Pivotal Conversations
My most recent Pivotal Conversations podcast is up. In it, I talk with Chip Childers of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Check out the show notes for a full transcript, or just take a listen.
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The flywheel go-to-market model
The Flywheel Model differs from the Traditional Model in one fundamental regard. The enterprise sales team is exclusively inbound. They are explicitly denied the option of seeking business outside the customer base, and must gin up business from only existing customers. The enterprise sales team is an up-sell and cross-sell team. In fact, so is…
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Survey shows companies want to use IT to drive growth
“The second-most-important category of business priority for 2015 and 2016 is technology related. This is the highest position we have ever seen for technology in this survey and it’s our firm belief that CEOs are more focused on this area than at any time since 1999,” said Mr. Raskino. “When we examine the subtext of…
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The “purpose driven reader”
A number of trends in media have left most news sites catering to a new kind of reader. According to the stereotype, this reader doesn’t visit news home pages, relying on starting points like Facebook instead. This reader sees news as just another category of entertainment, an escape or time-killer, and believes “important news will…
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Lots of VC funding in Q1, highest since 2000Q1
At $13.4 billion in 1,020 deals, the first fiscal quarter of 2015 clocked in the most first-quarter funding since 2000. Investors threw 26 percent more money into deals than they did in the first quarter of 2014. How much of that is software and tech? The funding software companies received compared to startups in other…
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Team work bringing down the average
The workers were told, essentially, that they were to be rewarded for collective achievement rather than individually. So instead of maximizing individual satisfaction, which often comes through competition with other people, employees considered their impact on colleagues. The theory, which plays out in the results, is that with relative rankings, top performers reduce their effort…
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Words matter. Thinking about how you talk about jobs if you want more women to apply. – disambiguity
Men apply for jobs when they meet 60% of the criteria, while women wait until they feel they meet 100% of the criteria. Words matter. Thinking about how you talk about jobs if you want more women to apply. – disambiguity
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The little-known body language secrets
Even if folding your arms feels comfortable, resist the urge to do so if you want people to see you as open-minded and interested in what they have to say. That one’s the worst! I want to cross my arms all the time to relax but I know that with all the pop-psychology over the…
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This is the state of IT everywhere
Interesting inquiry with internal IT dept of a major cloud provider that wants to use AWS, and not their own company’s cloud service. Old ways – and here, new! – of doing service management are just not cutting it. This is the state of IT everywhere
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There’s a leap once he starts talking about crotches, but the rest is pretty interesting and helpful for thinking through making resilliant businesses. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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How the pull nature of open source changes your partner strategy
In answering what Red Hat has to offer partners, CEO Jim Whitehurst says: So when we talk about containers, we talk about, here’s how, if a customer wants to implement containers, you can offer solutions to help them do that. And when we want to talk about OpenStack, well, here’s how you can offer an…
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vCloud Air Momentum
Also in 18 months, Fathers said, vCloud Air will have around 100,000 customers, up from the current “thousands”. Winning more customers will come down to increased interest in hybrid cloud, but also the addition of the NSX network virtualisation product to vCloud Air. vCloud Air Momentum
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Sizing the PaaS Market
Fun with market sizing I’ve spent a lot of time over the years working with cloud market-sizings, and occasioanlly on them. They’re always a bit whackadoodle and can be difficult to pull apart. But, so long as they’re consistent year of year, they do give a good intedication of momentum and a comparision to other…
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Software Defined Businesses need Software Defined IT Departments
(I originally wrote this April 2015 for FierceDevOps, a site which has made it either impossible or impossibly tedious to find these articles. Hence, it’s now here.) Quick tip: if you’re in a room full managers and executives from non-technology companies and one of them asks, “what kind of company do you think we are?”…no…
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My One Year Anniversary Of Living In Hotels Full Time
I’ve finally been able to realize that “maximizing” an experience is very different than eating/drinking/trying everything you’re given. If you’re privileged enough to have free food and drinks in front of your often, them’s words to live by. My One Year Anniversary Of Living In Hotels Full Time
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The CEO of America’s biggest bank is worried about tech startups
The CEO of America’s biggest bank is worried about tech startups
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Coté Memo #071: How to eat a bubble at #ApacheCon
View this on the web In this episode: who comes up the ApacheCon booths, a seemingly coordinated conversation about tech bubbles, and “how to eat.” The Cloud Foundry Summit is coming up on May 11th and 12th, in Santa Clara. It’s a great chance to dive into Cloud Foundry ecosystem both on the technology side…
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More on HP’s cloud re-positioning, AWS financials
More on HP’s cloud re-positioning: “HP is not leaving the public cloud market,“ said HP in a statement to CRN that mirrors a statement given earlier this week to VentureBeat. “We run the largest OpenStack technology-based public cloud out there. This has to do with not competing head-to-head with the big public cloud players.” They’re…
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