2018
December 28, 2018
December 24, 2018
December 23, 2018
- 🗂 Two-thirds of federal email is now in the cloud
- 🗂 What’s next for 2019? Influencer marketing trends
December 22, 2018
December 21, 2018
December 19, 2018
- 🗂 Does terrorism work? We studied 90 groups to get the answer
- 🗂 What’s wrong with Huawei, and why are countries banning the Chinese telecommunications firm?
- 🗂 Why Ketchup in Mexico Tastes So Good
December 18, 2018
- 🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds
- 🗂 You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle
- 🗂 COTS kills container cornucopia
- 🗂 Meanwhile, does tumblr just burn cash?
- 🗂 Projects versus products, dependency avoidance ed.
- 🗂 Synergies, industrial example
December 13, 2018
- 🗂 Congress Votes For Better Government Websites, Digital Services
- 🗂 Singapore Airlines to innovate at Silicon Valley startup speed with Pivotal
December 11, 2018
December 7, 2018
December 4, 2018
November 30, 2018
November 29, 2018
November 27, 2018
November 26, 2018
- Link: Google’s new cloud chief has a culture clash ahead of him after 22 years at Oracle
- Link: How Air France – KLM designed its PaaS Cloud Foundry
November 23, 2018
November 20, 2018
- Link: HSBC chief architect: Why machine learning is accelerating cloud adoption
- Link: OpenStack 2018: Mark Shuttleworth chats to The Reg about 10-year support plans, Linus Torvalds and Russian rockets
- Link: Is CX the new killer app for ERP vendors? I seriously doubt it
November 19, 2018
November 17, 2018
November 15, 2018
- Link: Mission capability delivered at startup speed
- Link: Salesforce makes undisclosed “strategic investment” in Docker, companies will cross-sell MuleSoft and Docker Enterprise
- Link: The computational legacy is Oracle’s cloud opportunity today
November 13, 2018
- Link: Enterprises to spend almost $2 trillion on digital transformation by 2022
- Link: OpenStack Expands With New Projects, Canonical’s CEO Is Not Thril
- Link: Rancher Labs Ropes Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei Support Into Containe
- Link: Singapore Airlines employees urged to innovate, fail without fear
- Link: Waving goodbye to Wall Street
November 11, 2018
November 5, 2018
November 4, 2018
November 1, 2018
October 31, 2018
October 30, 2018
October 25, 2018
- Link: Amazon move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in warehouse
- Link: Oracle OpenWorld 2018 – making the cloud friendly for enterprises that distrust cloud
- Link: THE EMERGING THREE-TIER PRICING MODEL FOR PRIVATE CLOUD
- Link: Cloud Foundry Cult
- Link: The State of Agile Software in 2018
October 24, 2018
October 23, 2018
October 22, 2018
October 19, 2018
October 18, 2018
October 15, 2018
- Link: Digital Transformation: Why Culture Is So Key
- Link: Why Digital Workplace Apps Are Not Producing Great Customer Experiences
October 14, 2018
October 12, 2018
- Link: DOJ approves $69B CVS-Aetna merger as healthcare industry restructures
- Link: Private cloud spending is increasing, not decreasing
October 10, 2018
October 9, 2018
- Link: SRE: The Biggest Lie Since Kanban
- Link: The Demise of Blockbuster, and Other Failure Fairy Tales
- Link: ‘The gulf between apps and infrastructure is blurring’ says boss of DevOps darling Puppet
October 7, 2018
October 5, 2018
- Link: Add It Up: FaaS ≠ Serverless
- Link: Square expands its bank-like offerings, letting sellers charge customers in installments
October 4, 2018
October 1, 2018
- Link: eBooks vs. Whitepapers
- Link: Here’s what happened when the IRS’s electronic filing system crashed on Tax Day
- Link: PCF and New Relic at West
- Link: Pivotal and New Relic Deliver Visibility, Value, and Velocity
- Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.3
September 27, 2018
- Link: Lessons from the UK Government’s Digital Transformation Journey
- Link: Steel cut oats
- Link: USAF’s plans for agile, DevOps, cloud
September 26, 2018
September 22, 2018
September 21, 2018
September 19, 2018
September 18, 2018
- Link: Google making private cloud stuff
- Link: Mesosphere revenue, etc.
- Link: Quest Software Enhances Kace Systems Management Appliance
September 17, 2018
September 15, 2018
September 14, 2018
- Link: “Gartner also found that there was a greater reliance on third-party developers in governments than other sectors, with more than half saying they used them. This is in contrast to 41 per cent over all the six industries surveyed, which compris
- Link: The Air Force Will Treat Computer Coding Like a Foreign Language
September 10, 2018
September 9, 2018
- Link: After Sondergaard, analyst firms must take stock
- Link: Agile processes can transform companies from unexpected places: The VGZ success story
- Link: Broadcom CEO Dangles CA Technologies Bait, Investors Bite
- Link: New Common Sense Media survey finds more positives than negatives in teen use of social media
- Link: New Tech Spotlight: Fintech Investments Reach All-Time High In Q2 2018
- Link: VMworld 2018: Pivotal Container Service and the Long Road to NoOps
- Link: When Concorde was the future
September 8, 2018
- Link: Taking Agile Transformations Beyond the Tipping Point
- Link: Why Starting With End-to-End Customer Journeys Isn’t Good For The Customer
September 7, 2018
- Coté’s Commonplace Book #41
- Link: Enterprise Software Priorities for the Next Decade
- Link: No, Operations Isn’t Going Anywhere, But it’s Going to Look Different
- Link: Impressions from VMworld
- Link: Internal Product Management: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly — Black Swan Farming
- Link: ITSM’s own “DevOps renaissance” won’t come from copying DevOps
- Link: Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition
- Link: VMworld 2018: VMware Wants to Re-Architect Your Containers for NSX – The New Stack
September 6, 2018
- Link: New Cloud Unicorn: PagerDuty Scores $1.3 Billion Valuation In $90 Million Round
- Link: Three imperatives for federal agencies to capitalize on digital transformation
- Link: Transform Your Corporate Culture With These 5 Proven Steps
- Link: With Emerging Technology Comes Emerging Data Problems
September 4, 2018
- Link: Amsterdam
- Link: Avocado toast, with spinach
- Link: croissant on a phone
- Link: Potato Chips Market Share, Size, Growth and Analysis 2018-2023
September 3, 2018
- Link: Airmen given direct access to AOC development process
- Link: Diplomacy and delusion: books to understand differences between Brits and Americans
- Link: Transforming the Air Force into a software company with more airpower
- Link: VMware’s vision – your multi-cloud substrate for enterprise applications
- Don’t call me an “evangelist” – Software Defined Interviews #75
September 2, 2018
- Link: Cloud Native Computing Foundation Accepts Harbor Into CNCF Sandbox
- Link: Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman review – the travails of being an MP | Books | The Guardian
August 31, 2018
- Coté’s Commonplace Book #40
- Link: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth and Commitment to Enterprise Customers
August 30, 2018
- Link: Bulls**t Jobs (Part 1 of ∞)
- Link: Google sets Kubernetes free with $9m in its pocket for expenses
- Link: Project management vs. product management
- Link: Project vs. product management, in government
August 29, 2018
- Link: Army’s newest command looks to the future from downtown Austin
- Link: Defense Innovation Board Metrics for Software Development Version 0.9, last modified 9 Jul 2018
- Link: Defense Innovation Board proposes new metrics for assessing DOD software development
- Link: Defense Innovation Board unveils ‘Ten Commandments of Software’
- Link: Investors Have Misdiagnosed Amazon’s Push Into The Pharmacy Business
- Link: Media Availability with Secretary Mattis at DIUx, transcript
- Link: ‘No longer an experiment’ — DIUx becomes DIU, permanent Pentagon unit
August 28, 2018
August 27, 2018
August 25, 2018
August 24, 2018
August 23, 2018
August 22, 2018
- Link: Farmers Insurance’s New CIO Sees AI Improving Claims Process
- Link: Forrester SVP: VMware Is One Of The ‘Exciting’ Stars Of IT Automation Era
- Link: Government CIOs Must Resist Transformation Hype and Focus on Digital Optimization
- Link: Language barrier won’t hold back chatbots in the Netherlands
August 21, 2018
August 20, 2018
- Link: GKE On-Prem
- Link: How Pivotal hopes to make cloud mavens of us all
- Link: What Will Be the Real Impact From Knative?
- Dustin Kirkland on Linux, Cloud Computing and Product Management – Software Defined Interviews #73
August 19, 2018
August 18, 2018
August 17, 2018
- Link: Amazon takes aim at U.K. insurance market | Digital Insurance
- Link: Google Cloud rolls out prepackaged AI services aimed at business functions
- Link: We need to talk about organizational change management
August 16, 2018
August 15, 2018
- Link: How Companies are Saving Millions with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Link: Penn Jillette, In Conversation
- Link: The New Affluents
- Link: The tech project survival guide
August 14, 2018
August 13, 2018
- Link: Configuring your release pipelines for safe deployments
- Link: Kubernetes for the Kubernewbie – The Journey
- Link: “Let’s think about control. I’d struggle to find any engineers operating within a DevOps mindset eschew control of their production systems. I encourage the use of a CMDB, but again, it’s live, automatically updated, and software-based. It’s ca
- Link: Progressive Delivery, a History…. Condensed
- Link: Why You Need To Know About Low-Code, Even If You’re Not Responsible For Software Delivery
- Chris Donaldson on Automation – Software Defined Interviews #72
August 10, 2018
August 8, 2018
- Link: Airplane Maintenance is Offshored
- Link: Broadcom can’t get there from here
- Link: Q&A on the Book Enterprise Agility
August 7, 2018
- Link: Architectural and operations minimalism
- Link: Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5 Percent in 2017
- Link: The Trouble with Cloud “Repatriation”
- Link: Towards Progressive Delivery
August 6, 2018
- Link: Google Cloud Platform Blog: Cloud Services Platform: bringing the best of the cloud to you
- Link: TUTORIAL – Deploying Software on PKS: Creating a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Spinnaker
August 2, 2018
August 1, 2018
July 30, 2018
July 29, 2018
July 28, 2018
- Link: Cloud Next 18 – HSBC to run business banking on Kubernetes in Google Cloud
- Link: Facebook’s facing limits
July 27, 2018
- Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #36
- Link: Here are five hidden trends in corporate America’s travel and expenses as online services take over
- Link: Serverless survey
- Link: This is the Amazon everyone should have feared — and it has nothing to do with its retail business
July 26, 2018
- Link: Amazon Web Services crosses the $6 billion mark in quarterly revenue, up 49 percent
- Link: Poor listening
July 25, 2018
- Link: Google announces Cloud Build, its new continuous integration and delivery platform
- Link: Knative Enables Portable Serverless Platforms on Kubernetes, for Any Cloud
July 24, 2018
- Link: Amazon launches Part Finder, built by technology it acquired from Partpic in 2016
- Link: Google CEO confirms Target as big cloud customer, continuing retail moves toward AWS competitors
July 23, 2018
- Link: Agile Strategy: Short-Cycle Strategy Development and Execution
- Link: Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
- Link: Google Banks on Kubernetes in Cloud Wars
- Link: Store scanning robots will get AI, object recognition boost with recent acquisition
- Link: The My Health Record story no politician should miss
July 22, 2018
July 20, 2018
- Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #35
- Link: Res Obscura: Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Historians
- Link: Employees should work on hard things, not easy things
- Link: Get Up, Stand Up! Changing the world with posters
- Link: On Preferring A to B, while also preferring B to A
July 19, 2018
- Link: IBM earnings Q2 2018
- Link: The Book Is a Time Machine
- Link: Why Mexico has not become more prosperous—and how it could
- Link: WSO2 CEO Tyler Jewell: Ballerina and the End of Middleware
July 18, 2018
- Link: Aquarelo: A Beautifully-Designed Mac Color Utility
- Link: How to take, and benefit from criticism
- Link: Stop Playing Devil’s Advocate, and Other Advice for Better Decision Making
- Link: Syllabi – Marie Hicks books
- Link: Try to Resist Misinterpreting the Marshmallow Test
- Link: What makes a good deal?
July 17, 2018
- Link: Ask the Engineer: Fix Your Phone Tape
- Link: Datical automates database deployments; it’s DevOps for data
- Link: DockerCon coverage from 451: security focus
- Link: Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve
- Link: Oracle plans to end Java serialization, but that’s not the end of the story
- Link: Thoughts on DockerCon 2018
- Link: Walmart pick Microsoft Azure for cloud
- Link: What is “digital”?
July 16, 2018
- Link: Two great tastes that taste great together
- Link: US wages have been flat, despite growing economy
July 15, 2018
July 14, 2018
July 13, 2018
- Coté’s Commonplace Book #34
- Link: Australia’s Digital Transformation Stumbles Badly
- Link: Farmers Insurance Tests AI, Automation’s Potential For Speeding Up Claims Process
- Link: How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 14th Century’s Answer to Tumblr
- Link: The DNA of adaptability: How Kubernetes hosts and manages a plethora of different workloads
July 12, 2018
- Link: Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your next challenge…
- Link: Investors Gave Snap a Gift
- Link: Micro Focus belches as it struggles to digest HPE Software • The Register
- Link: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies
July 11, 2018
- Link: AT&T to Acquire AlienVault | AlienVault
- Link: Containers and serverless functions – a modern architecture needs both and more
- Link: Employee Surveys Are Still One of the Best Ways to Measure Engagement
- Link: Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
- Link: Red Hat’s James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat
- Link: VW using PCF and OpenStack
July 10, 2018
- Link: Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List)
- Link: Online Community building books
- Link: Technology Spending by the Numbers: From Public Cloud to Security Measures – TheStreet
July 9, 2018
- Link: “An astonishing paper that may explain why it’s so difficult to patch.”
- Link: How to Monitor the SRE Golden Signals
- Link: Monitoring SRE’s Golden Signals
- Link: Preliminary Analysis of the Site Reliability Engineer Survey
July 7, 2018
July 5, 2018
- Link: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups
- Link: The New CIO: Leading IT the Mark Schwartz Way
- Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat
- Link: What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like
July 4, 2018
July 3, 2018
- Link: Revenge of the PMO
- Link: The still-coherent culture that is the United States
- Link: Toxic Technology: the growing legacy threat
June 28, 2018
June 27, 2018
- Link: Press 1 for automagic K8s cluster. Press 2 or 3 for complex Kubernetes
- Link: Don’t Have Children
- Link: Gartner Says Employees in Germany Report Lower Discretionary Effort than Global Average
- Link: Oracle Gets Cloudy: What’s Behind Their Change in Financial Reporting?
June 25, 2018
June 24, 2018
June 22, 2018
- Link: Embracing Kubernetes Doesn’t Have to Mean OPERATING Kubernetes – Container Solutions
- Link: Galloping greenback rocks Red Hat
- Link: IBM Drops Cloud Management Platform Onto Kubernetes
- Link: The association of lifetime alcohol use with mortality and cancer risk in older adults: A cohort study
- Link: The Bezos-Buffett-Dimon health care venture: Eliminate the middlemen
June 21, 2018
- Link: Agile at DOD — going beyond sticky notes and standing meetings
- Link: Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 release: Things are changing…
- Link: Grocers Partner For Digital Growth
- Link: How Tech Companies Conquered America’s Cities
- Link: Serverless Impacts on Business, Process and Culture
- Link: Why software giants are failing
June 20, 2018
June 19, 2018
- Link: Splunk acquires VictorOps to take it – and you – into site reliability engineering
- Link: The full-time job of keeping up with Kubernetes
June 17, 2018
June 16, 2018
June 14, 2018
- Link: Docker Enterprise Edition Offers Multicloud App Management
- Link: Docker seeks Golden State burnish for cloud container expansion
June 9, 2018
June 7, 2018
- Link: Enterprises taking path of greatest resistance to cloud, survey shows
- Link: Investors High on Low-Code Developers
June 6, 2018
June 4, 2018
- Link: CNCF Brings the Helm Package Manager for Kubernetes into the Fold
- Link: What’s the Value of CI/CD?
May 31, 2018
- Link: Red Hat’s only business plan is to keep changing plans | ZDNet
- Link: Kubernetes won – so now what?
- Link: The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point | InfoWorld
- Link: The State Of The Kubernetes Ecosystem
- Link: What’s really driving digital transformation globally? IDC has answers
May 29, 2018
- Link: Dear Journalists: Please Stop Calling Media Companies “Big Tech”
- Link: From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader
May 28, 2018
- Link: Five Minute Finance
- Link: Full Cycle Developers at Netflix
- Link: Understanding legacy technology in government
May 25, 2018
May 24, 2018
- Link: 6 questions with winner of the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Leadership Award
- Link: Management Support in Agile Adoption
- Link: Why Do Meeting Cancellations Say “I’m Giving You Back 30 Minutes … You’re Welcome”?
May 23, 2018
May 22, 2018
- Link: Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud
- Link: Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker’s CEO says yes.
- Link: Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit
- Link: Ride-hailing app Grab partners Maybank for mobile wallet launch
May 18, 2018
- Link: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?
- Link: Reaching Peak Meeting Efficiency
May 16, 2018
- Link: Air Force looks to rapidly develop software with Project Kessel Run
- Link: CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer
May 15, 2018
- Link: Narrowing questions
- Link: CIOs Must Use EAs To Be Successful In Their Digital Transformations
- Rethinking Enterprise Architecture
May 12, 2018
May 11, 2018
May 10, 2018
May 9, 2018
- Link: Bringing CoreOS technology to Red Hat OpenShift to deliver a next-generation automated Kubernetes platform
- Link: CA Technologies Begins Site, Workforce Consolidation
- Link: Google and the new punk era of IT
- Link: Microsoft sees Red …Hat for OpenShift-on-Azure public cloud offering
May 8, 2018
- Link: Adam Smith, Misanthrope
- Link: Dell EMC Merger Required Its Own Digital Transformation Program
- Link: IBM, Red Hat couple containers for hybrid cloud deployments
- Link: Mesosphere’s Investors Bet on Multicloud
- Link: Write it down
May 7, 2018
- Link: Cambridge Analytica: how did it turn clicks into votes?
- Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain
- Link: Warren Buffett says cryptocurrency attracts charlatans, AI won’t change investing
May 6, 2018
- Link: Digital transformation in power generation and delivery
- Link: Is the internet good or bad for society? Americans are having a tougher time deciding.
- Link: Walmart, IBM, and blockchaining the supply chain
- Link: Walmart’s Blockchain Program May Transform the Way We Use Data
May 5, 2018
May 4, 2018
- Link: Authenticity Wins
- Link: Bed, Bath & Beyond – when you wish upon a digital vision…your share price collapses
- Link: More Firms Look for Revenue Boost from Tech Innovation, CIOs
- Link: Security basics
May 3, 2018
- Link: Amy Chozick’s book is about Hillary Clinton — and all the things reporters don’t write in their stories about Hillary Clinton
- Link: European privacy regulations predicted to damage digital advertising revenue
- Link: Whoa, Gartner drops a truth bomb: Blockchain is overhyped and top IT bods don’t want it
May 2, 2018
- Link: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for Designers
- Link: Code Complexity is a Design Problem
- Link: Curing Handoff-itis
- Link: Measuring Trust and Its Impact on Leadership and Organisational Change
- Link: The End of Enterprise IT, ING org. structure
- Link: The Top Challenges Kubernetes Users Face with Deployment
- Link: Volkswagen CIO Martin Hofmann: IT experts in our labs work the Silicon Valley way – Automotive World
- Link: Ways We Work: Pivotal Labs
- Link: Wellness market size
May 1, 2018
- Link: Digital is a long-term objective, CEOs warned
- Link: Making public policy in the digital age – digital HKS
- Link: Why Your IT Project May Be Riskier Than You Think
April 30, 2018
- Link: Avengers: Infinity War: Marvel’s Superhero Hair Is Full of Secrets
- Link: CF Summit Boston — Day 2 Wrap-Up – Brian McClain – Medium
- Link: Domino’s CEO’s parting shot – we’re going to be 100% digital
- Link: My Interoperable Opinions of Cloud Foundry Summit 2018
April 29, 2018
April 26, 2018
April 25, 2018
April 24, 2018
- Link: HPE Denies It’s Partnering with Huawei, Taps Crisis Public Relati
- Link: Estimated Nest revenue and losses
- Link: Future of Jakarta Is in the Cloud, Not with the JCP: One-on-One with Mike Milinkovich
- Link: IBM’s big bet on blockchain
- Link: Migrations: the sole scalable fix to tech debt.
April 23, 2018
- Link: Allstate Technology Chief Develops The Uber Of Roadside Assistance
- Link: How Insurance Giant Allstate Is Using Cloud Tech to Build New Businesses
- Link: Jeff Bezos admits Amazon has ‘the weirdest meeting culture you will ever encounter’, Business Insider
- Link: Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr!
April 22, 2018
- Link: Shaking up Scotiabank: Three exclusive insights into CEO Brian Porter’s revolution – The Globe and Mail
- Link: The Contradictions Of IBM’s Platform Strategy
April 20, 2018
April 19, 2018
- Link: AppDynamics touts the agility of a startup with the pocket of a global giant
- Link: Modeling the future enterprise: people, purpose, and profit
- Link: Subscription businesses, McKinsey
- Link: Zuora IPO and how subscriptions changed how we do business
April 18, 2018
- Link: Home Depot is launching its biggest tech hiring spree ever to protect its lead over Amazon
- Link: The axes of HomePod evolution: don’t judge what you can’t yet see
April 17, 2018
- Link: Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip
- Link: OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong
April 16, 2018
- Link: Insurance industry making the leap to blockchain
- Link: After Months of Development, B3i’s Blockchain Prototype Is Ready for Testing
- Link: HCL buys into hybrid data management with majority stake in Actian
- Link: Liberty Mutual embraces AI, blockchain
- Link: Managing Data in Microservices
- Link: Monitoring continues to be a valuable part of the hybrid cloud, as Sensu raises $10M
- Link: Q&A on the Book Agile Management
- Link: The only way is Ethics: UK Lords fret about AI ‘moral panic’
- Link: The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So
April 13, 2018
April 12, 2018
- Link: DellEMC/ESG survey on digital transformation
- Link: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 21.4 Percent in 2018
April 11, 2018
April 10, 2018
April 9, 2018
- Link: GDPR Seen Slowing AI Innovation
- Link: Serverless Architectures: A Paradigm Shift in …
- Satish Kodukula on Product Management – Software Defined Interviews #70
April 8, 2018
April 6, 2018
- Link: Dell Technologies’ “essential infrastructure” strategy
- Link: When AI meets digital transformation: 4 areas where AI fits now | The Enterprisers Project
- Link: A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home
- Link: ‘Blockchain’ is meaningless, government edition
- Link: Digital Disruption at Volkswagen Group: Is It All About Cars?
- Link: Eden: The Tech That’s Bringing Fresher Groceries to You
- Link: How To Run A Good Presentation
- Link: Inside Synchrony Financial’s Innovation Lab
- Link: Insurers go all-out on mobile, but what comes next is elusive
- Link: U.S. CIO Suzette Kent: Don’t change IT modernization plan; ‘turbo boost’ it
April 5, 2018
April 4, 2018
- Link: For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly
- Link: Gartner Survey Reveals Business Value or Benefits Realization Is the Leading IT Cost-Optimization Priority for CIOs
- Link: It’s time to get in to more meaningful “bar fights”
- Link: Merrill Corporation alongside Leading Technology Companies, Launch New Category for M&A Professionals
April 3, 2018
April 2, 2018
April 1, 2018
March 31, 2018
March 30, 2018
- Link: The Insurance Industry Is A Prime Target For AI Technologies And Solutions
- Link: “Do They Have AI?” or That Rant on AI in Security
- Link: How Does Advertising Work?
- Link: On Salesforce’s acquisition of MuleSoft
- Link: Serverless at Bustle
- Link: Survey Shows Cloud and DevOps Complexity and Culture Concerns
- Link: There is no “technology industry”
- Link: Understanding technology today
- Link: Windows chief leaving Microsoft as CEO Satya Nadella rolls out massive engineering reorg
March 29, 2018
- Link: Happy as Larry: Why Oracle won the Google Java Android case • The Register
- Link: Media vs. Facebook: This time it’s personal
March 28, 2018
- Link: As it shifts cloud focus to platform services, Oracle tries to hold on to its database legacy
- Link: ‘Big Tech’ isn’t one big monopoly – it’s 5 companies all in different businesses
- Link: Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM
- Link: Docker founder Solomon Hykes leaving company, cites need for enterprise-focused CTO
- Link: “Google’s use of the Java API packages was not fair,” appeals court rules
- Link: Kubernetes 1.10 Release Hits Storage, Security, and Networking
- Link: My advice for a Paris visit
- Link: Worldwide Spending on Security Solutions Forecast to Reach $91 Billion in 2018, According to a New IDC Spending Guide
March 27, 2018
- Link: Putting the transformation into digital
- Link: A look inside American Family Insurance’s digital transformation office
- Link: IT staff will need to retrain when automation deskills their jobs
- Link: Red Hat is in the pink: Cracks $3bn revenue run rate as subs take off
March 26, 2018
- Link: Amazon is coming for the insurance industry – should we be worried?
- Link: Amazon pushes further into insurance with its latest investment
- Link: Insurers lag behind other financial services in adopting digital technologies
- Lineworkers and developers working side-by-side to improve Duke Energy’s software, with John Mitchell – Software Defined Interviews #68
March 25, 2018
March 22, 2018
- Link: Java 10 Released, First in the New Faster Cadence
- Link: Salesforce agrees to buy MuleSoft in $6.5 billion deal
- Link: WhatsApp founder says to delete Facebook
- Link: Windows Server 2019
March 20, 2018
- Link: Facebook Stock Plunges
- Link: IBM’s cloud strategy revolves around multi-cloud support, grabbing new workloads
March 19, 2018
March 17, 2018
March 15, 2018
- Link: Aqua Extends Container Security Platform to Kubernetes, Cloud Services
- Link: Fintech Has Grown Up
- Link: IBM Brings Kubernetes Service To Bare Metal
- Link: Using VMware’s Harbor with PKS (and Why Kubernetes Needs a Container Registry)
March 14, 2018
- Link: Broadcom/Qualcomm stopped by Trump
- Link: Container orchestration top trumps: Let’s just pretend you don’t use Kubernetes already
- Link: Digital Twin initiatives set to take enterprise center stage: Gartner
- Link: Finland government buys a slice of Nokia
- Link: Mayor of London Calls for Regulation of the Tech Industry
- Link: Moogsoft gets $40m round D
- Link: Slack/Concur integration
- Link: Web inventor wants regulation of web
March 13, 2018
March 12, 2018
- Link: Keep a common place book
- Link: Uber Spent $10.7 Billion in Nine Years. Does It Have Enough to Show for It?
March 11, 2018
- Link: Why are antiques now so cheap?
- Dominic Wellington on machine learning, or, shadows in the datacenter – Software Defined Interviews #66
March 10, 2018
- Link: Ethics? Yeah, that’s great, but do they scale?
- Link: Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World
- Link: How to build a business case for DevOps transformation
- Link: Millennials: A tale of two generations
- Link: Technologist’s Hippocratic Oath
- Link: To Build a More Capable Cyber Policy Field, Teach Policy to Technologists
- Link: Why Haier Is Reorganizing Itself around the Internet of Things
- Link: Why should Kubernetes be scared of AWS?
- Link: Will open source software become a ‘tragedy of the commons’?
March 9, 2018
- Link: Being a Sober Parent in a Wine Mom Culture
- Link: How a holding company that sold pool chemicals pivoted into a $20B coffee empire
- Link: Technology that we don’t realize we’re thankful for
- Link: Why Software Developers Should Take Ethics Into Consideration
March 8, 2018
- Link: A/B Testing in Marketing: The Customer’s Always Right
- Link: CI/CD is possible
- Link: Cigna acquiring Express Scripts
- Link: Datadog log monitoring software branches out as DevOps spreads
- Link: DevOps success is about culture, culture culture
- Link: Global race for 5G heats up with latest US Congress bill
- Link: Info Commissioner tears into Google’s ‘call us journalists’ trial defence
- Link: Survey: people want tech more regulated
- Link: Why is Everything a “Platform”?
- Link: Worldwide SMB IT Spending to Pass $600 Billion in 2018, Driven by Mid-Market Demand for Software and Services, According to IDC
- Link: Your Omnichannel Roadmap
March 7, 2018
- Link: Java EE Becomes Jakarta EE
- Link: The Hidden Costs of Cloud Adoption
- Link: The Improbable Rise of the Daily News Podcast
- Link: VMware’s Roadmap, Hybrid, Is the Future
- Link: Why men need more consideration in the women in tech debate
March 6, 2018
- Link: Will 2018 be the year of the neo-luddite?
- Link: Yes, DevOps is all about business growth, especially the digital variety
March 5, 2018
- Link: Foreign-Born Engineers Dominate Bay Area Tech Jobs
- Link: The Ivory Tower Can’t Keep Ignoring Tech
- Link: The Kubernetes Lesson
- Link: Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups
- Link: Working remotely, 4 years in
March 4, 2018
March 3, 2018
March 2, 2018
- Link: OpenStack Queens expands support for software containers and virtual graphics chips
- Link: OpenStack ‘Queens’ struts into the spotlight
- Link: Ordering from voice tubes
March 1, 2018
- Link: Federal Reserve chair says ‘Amazon effect’ could be responsible for low inflation
- Link: The Server Market Booms, And It Could Last For A While
- Link: VMware might just have cracked the container market with NSX
February 28, 2018
- Link: The History of the Service Mesh
- Link: Microservices: It’s All About the Events
- Link: PKS: The answer for “everything else” in your data center
- Link: The New HPE Sheriff Lays Down The Hybrid IT Law
- Link: The parent trap: can you be a good writer and a good parent?
- Link: Warren Buffett reveals more details about healthcare venture with JPMorgan and Amazon
February 25, 2018
- Link: Dropbox S-1 Analysis – The King of Freemium
- Link: Why Are We Still Talking About the ‘Millennial Problem’ in the Workfor
- Link: Your favourite article on The Register, and what that says about technology and the media
February 23, 2018
February 22, 2018
- Link: Dell EMC’s Chad Sakac Takes New Role At Pivotal Software To Align Dell’s Cloud, Software, Hardware – Page: 1 | CRN
- Link: How technology is designed to bring out the worst in us
February 21, 2018
February 19, 2018
February 17, 2018
- Link: This idea I had about the Shitty Media Men List, but on the blockchain, a.k.a. the Razor of Shit
- Link: Brexit could see UK lose status as global business leader
- Link: Design for Regulatory Approval as Carefully as You Design Your Automation – Keith Rodwell
- Link: Will UK lose global business and tech leader status post-Brexit?
February 14, 2018
February 13, 2018
- Link: 9 rules of design research
- Link: Almost half of CIOs plan to deploy artificial intelligence enterprise solutions | ZDNet
- Link: Gartner Survey Shows Why Projects Fail
- Link: Heptio readies its customers and community for Kubernetes critical mass
- Link: The dangers of faith in data
- Link: The State of the Cloud Industry in 2018
- Link: Vivisectionary by Kate Lacour | Study Group Comic Books
February 12, 2018
- Link: Nietzsche on Depression and the Rehabilitation of Hope
- Link: Oracle expands its autonomous technology across its cloud platform
February 11, 2018
February 10, 2018
February 9, 2018
February 7, 2018
- Link: Cisco says virtually all data center workloads will be based in the cloud by 2021
- Link: Gin Sling, Recipe and History
- Link: How dating sites spy on you
- Link: Look at stupid, sexy Kubernetes with all the cloud firms hanging off its musclebound arms
- Link: New Relic CEO Lew Cirne – “Digital is the new front door” for business
February 6, 2018
- Link: Books on design
- Link: Gartner Survey Shows Organizations Are Slow to Advance in Data and Analytics
- Link: Internet usage among the kids
- Link: The rise and fall of 18F
February 5, 2018
- Link: Docker Who? By Acquiring CoreOS, Red Hat Aims to Be the Kubernetes Company
- Link: Is Microsoft Azure really making up ground on AWS?
- Link: Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring – Adron Hall
February 4, 2018
- Link: Women Once Ruled Computers. When Did the Valley Become Brotopia?
- Link: Open source is 20: How it changed programming and business forever
February 2, 2018
- Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care
- Link: The big tech backlash | Technology | The Guardian
February 1, 2018
- Rule 1: Don’t go to meetings. Rule 2: See rule 1
- Link: 5 Ways Red Hat’s Acquisition Of CoreOS Will Shake Up The Container Tech Landscape | CRN Mobile
- Link: Microsoft results show a distributed computing future
- Link: Red Hat tries CoreOS on for size – and buys
- Link: Strong financial results from Microsoft as it aims for breadth of services
January 31, 2018
- Link: AI Is Not the End of Software Developers
- Link: America’s bias against working moms comes down to one question: Do you value your female employees or not?
- Link: Bazaarvoice acquisition gets shareholder approval
- Link: Cisco jumps on the Kubernetes bandwagon with its new Container Platform
- Link: DevOps, Software-Defined Infrastructure, and the CMDB’s Perception Problem
- Link: GDPR requests to take thousands of hours a month, says survey
- Link: ICE to begin tracking vehicle license plates
- Link: Key metrics for RabbitMQ monitoring
January 30, 2018
- Cloud Native Works in Government — the IRS, US Air Force, and contractors
- Link: Google takes $1.1bn chomp out of HTC, smacks lips, burps
- Link: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan form health care mega-company
- Link: Appian survey: Big obstacles to digital transformation
- Link: Apple Pay accepted at 1 out of 2 U.S. stores, says Apple VP Jennifer Bailey
- Link: IoT and the end of business as usual
- Link: Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS, Expanding its Kubernetes and Containers Leadership
- Link: Start a nuclear war? There’s an app for that – US military teams up with Silicon Valley to revolutionise the battlefield
- Link: The path to self-sovereign digital identity starts with blockchain
January 29, 2018
- Link: Podcast Listeners Really Are the Holy Grail Advertisers Hoped They’d Be – WIRED
- Link: The era of the cloud’s total dominance is drawing to a close – Life on the edge
January 28, 2018
January 27, 2018
- Link: Dell EMC Restructures Infrastructure Organizations To ‘Streamline’ Product Road Maps, Speed Go-To-Market
- Link: Meet Kate Garman, Seattle’s smart cities coordinator, tasked with making the city more efficient
- Link: Uber, Lyft & the roads of hell
January 25, 2018
- Building trust with internal marketing, large and small
- Link: Pivotal: innovative partnership saves big on US Air Force fuel costs
- Link: Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind
- Link: The Cost Center Trap – LeanEssays
- Link: The Majority of Top Performing IPOs Were Never Unicorns | Jeff Richards | Pulse | LinkedIn
- Link: VMware and Pivotal’s PKS Distribution Marries Kubernetes with BOSH
- Link: You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world — Kelsey Hightower
January 24, 2018
January 23, 2018
- Link: AI Begins to Infiltrate the Enterprise
- Link: Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle
- Link: An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of
- Link: Apple’s Siri-equipped HomePod comes to your home on February 9
- Link: Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location
- Link: Seattle’s complaints about Amazon HQ1
- Link: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin
- Link: The Problem With Courting Amazon
- Link: Why you city should avoid Amazon HQ2
January 22, 2018
- So what exactly should IBM do, and have done?
- Link: New Economy, Meet Old Continent
- Link: Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities, moving to next phase in contest for $5B economic prize
- Link: Curated list of awesome lists
- Link: Facebook grows a conscience, admits it corroded democracy
- Link: GDPR compliance – here are the 14 things you actually need to do
- Link: Google’s AutoML lets you train custom machine learning models without having to code
- Link: Meltdown and Spectre underscore the ongoing need for infrastructure automation
- Link: On the Rise of Digital Addiction Activism – Study Hacks – Cal Newport
- Link: Rupert Murdoch says Facebook needs to pay publishers the way cable companies do
- Link: Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms
- Link: The critics are wrong about AWS’s open source approach
- Link: The New York Times’ stock jumped following Facebook’s “trustworthy” news announcement
- Link: WSO2: Our 2017 Results and 2018 Plan
January 19, 2018
January 18, 2018
January 17, 2018
- Link: Building the convincing PaaS business case
- Link: Dropbox files for IPO — and their numbers are looking solid
- Link: What is Developer Advocacy?
- Link: Whither the DBA
- Link: Who’s using 2FA? Sweet FA. Less than 1 in 10 Gmail users enable two-factor authentication
January 16, 2018
- Link: All the president’s tweets
- Link: Amazon lost cloud market share to Microsoft in the fourth quarter: KeyBanc
- Link: App development teams brace for big change in 2018
- Link: Comparing Kubernetes to Pivotal Cloud Foundry — A Developer’s Perspective
- Link: Complexity bolsters valuations for infrastructure software
- Link: Creative ways to encourage the integration of DevOps processes
- Link: Driven by AI, blockchain and IoT, IT spending could hit $3.7 trillion in 2018 – SiliconANGLE
- Link: Green light for IT spending in 2018
- Link: The latest media pivot: voice
- Link: To detractors, he’s a buffoon; to dealmakers, he’s a boon
- Link: With Loggly, SolarWinds scoops up another log service
January 15, 2018
- Link: Microsoft gets serious about monitoring
- Link: Cisco is strengthening its ‘cloud first’ posture
- Link: People love Google’s new feature that matches your selfie to a famous painting
- Link: The Spectre And Meltdown Server Tax Bill
January 14, 2018
- Link: API’s and Mainframes
- Link: Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?
- Link: Taking Stock of Cloud Application Platforms
- Link: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students
January 9, 2018
January 8, 2018
- Link: Feel like a little kid in the container world? Welcome to the club
- Link: Thoughts….
- A more pragmatic morality
January 7, 2018
January 6, 2018
- Link: Annual Letter from Planet Earth
- Link: Apple App Store Continues to Grow
- Link: Clever calculator
- Link: Fewer Americans rely on TV news; what type they watch varies by who they are – Pew Research Center
- Link: How smart speakers stole the show from smartphones
- Link: Productivity in 2017: What we learned from analyzing 225 million hours
January 5, 2018
- Link: Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign
- Link: How to Become Insanely Well-Connected
- Link: What Successful Digital Transformations Have in Common
January 4, 2018
- Link: 451 JFrog update
- Link: Google Cloud Platform services engage corporate IT
- Link: Lots of M&A in 2017
- Link: Pivotal Cloud Foundry vs Kubernetes: Choosing The Right Cloud-Native Application Deployment Platform
- Link: Private cloud TCO and such, from 451
- Link: These Kubernetes developments make the platform ripe to explode in 2018
- Link: Vendors talk about why AzureStack is good for their markets
- Link: WP Engine Attracts $250 Million Silver Lake Investment