Author: Coté
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I’ve spent years puttering around at the “infrastructure layer” in IT: programming, systems management, cloud, all that gunk. From what I can tell much of the growth in IT is being driven by companies wanting to engage in “social” more. What is “social,” though? Indeed, that’s one of the things this podcast will try to…
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Gartner’s IT spending forecast
Investment is coming from exploiting analytics to make B2C processes more efficient and improve customer marketing efforts…. The focus is on enhancing the customer experience throughout the presales, sales and post sales processes. Gartner’s IT spending forecast
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The disruptive tech ecosystem, put briefly
The technology industry is in the business of creating products and services that either enable new activities or make existing activities less expensive. Venture capitalists are in the business of funding entrepreneurs who run experiments to try to create these new products and services. I believe the only way the technology industry can offer meaningfully…
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SDN adoption expected to be slow
[L]ess than 30 percent of the 321 IT professionals surveyed have deployed or plan to deploy SDN in the next year. Add on another 40 percent that have no plans to implement SDN at all. SDN adoption expected to be slow
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The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein
The year in 3D printing: lingerie models, jet engines and the twerking Einstein
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Digital hoarders
I’ve always been attached to the platonic idea of an attic, where traditional families who live in the same house for forever stick their prized possessions and junk, so that other family members can go up and trawl through it at watershed points in their lives to discover some curio that leads them to a…
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Tim Anderson’s ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, everything
Tim Anderson’s ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, everything
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The Day Google Had to ‘Start Over’ on Android
Excerpt from a book. Always love some tech history. The Day Google Had to ‘Start Over’ on Android
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The $158B data-driven advertising market
I guess this why companies like Oracle and IBM keep buying advertising SaaSes and such: The report estimates that in 2012, the data-driven marketing economy added $156 billion in revenue to the U.S. economy and fueled more than 675,000 jobs. To put that statistic in perspective, that’s nearly half of total U.S. expenditures on marketing…
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IBM customizes OpenStack workload placement with Platform code
Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate server in which to place a new virtual machine based on policies crafted by the administrator. Criteria can include how much of each machine is already being used in terms of its CPU utilization, memory utilization and other factors. I’d expect to…
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What do “strategy” people do, really?
Broadly speaking, CSO responsibilities fall into three categories—strategy development, resource allocation, and strategy execution—but activities within these three categories vary widely. (See Exhibit 1.) Most CSOs are responsible for identification of growth opportunities (84 percent of the executives we interviewed), strategic planning (82 percent), and M&A and divestments (82 percent). Other common responsibilities include monitoring…
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Oracle’s cloud plans
“We intend to compete aggressively in the commodity infrastructure-as-a-service marketplace,” he said. “We’re not going to have that alone … our intention is to sell our customers IaaS and the same customer a highly differentiated platform-as-a-service which will let us get better margins and a highly differentiated suite of applications for the cloud.” Oracle’s cloud…
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Things are going the wrong direction in the server market
Continued soft demand for servers around the world resulted in a 3.7 percent decline in sales during the third quarter, according to IDC. A poor showing by IBM, which suffered a 19.4 percent decline in factory revenues during the quarter, enabled Hewlett-Packard to regain the title as the world’s top server maker. Cisco and the…
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OpenStack on Wall Street – Developers
To speed up development of custom written applications, of course. OpenStack on Wall Street – Developers
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Becoming a cloud, tips for service providers
Last week I was in an online panel with Flexiant and ThinkGrid talking doling out advice for service providers who want to go cloud. Rather than the usual vendor/analyst dynamic, we managed to get an end-user, as it were, on as well, Rob Lovell, CEO of ThinkGrid. The result was a fun discussion: we focused…
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[Gallery images not available] I threw this camera out today. I’ve owned it since around 2002 or so. I used to carry it constantly alongside my RAZR and other (feature) cellphones. It was a great camera and cemented the Canon brand as “just works, good stuff” in my mind. I let my 3 year old…
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Good #DellWorld summary and take from @benkepes
Good wrap-up so far: It’s a long list of news but I’m left wondering how substantive it will actually be for Dell as a company. I understand their new strategy of being a neutral player and offering a plethora of cloud services – but all these announcements run the risk of creating mass confusion for…
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What’s the plan at Dell? Questions for #DellWorld
Going into DellWorld, there are a handful of high-level questions – well, really, statements in the form of questions – that’d love to hear Dell’s reaction to. They all really revolved around “what’s the plan now?”: How is Dell going to run things differently now, day-to-day? From what I can tell (reading press releases), the…
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Risk of your cloud going out of business
Nearly 50% saw cloud-based solutions as having “a great deal of risk” while 33% saw “somewhat” risk. Only 12% indicated there was little risk. Risk of your cloud going out of business
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