Author: Coté
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Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract
Looks like that $600m AWS contract with the CIA is real, if not closed. Also of note: Amazon is bidding for building a private cloud – I think…? – more or less. More: Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract
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Planning is fine, but generally over-rated
He said he never sought lot of advice because if he had gone and asked people what he was about to do and work, they would have told him it wouldn’t work and dissuaded him from taking up the venture. “I would experiment experiment, test, go fast, fail fast. Planning is fine but generally over-rated,”…
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Amazon Staff Meetings: “No PowerPoint”
The traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. Somebody gets up in front of the room and presents with a powerpoint presentation, some type of slide show. In our view you get very little information, you get bullet points. This is easy for the presenter, but difficult for the audience. And so instead,…
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https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and M&A, so speaking publically was not really in the job description. Nonetheless, I pitched in with my marketing friends from time-to-time, as in this talk going over cloud as Dell saw it and advice for users. (Source: https://www.brighttalk.com/)
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Lazy robots, or, Is cloud meeting your expectations?
As I mentioned earlier, Roy and and I had a webinar today about Dell’s cloud portfolio and strategies. Here’s a recording of it, enjoy. And, there’s also one on DevOps, from Barton and Willis.
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The 100 person limit
Size and internal vs. external coordination costs matter a lot. North of 100 people in a company, employees don’t all know each other. Politics become important. Incentives change. Signaling that work is being done may become more important than actually doing work. These costs are almost always underestimated. Yet they are so prevalent that professional…
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How GitHub runs itself
In that I work at BigCo that wants to transform, with lots of software in our future, I think a lot about this talk: From the 2012 Monktoberfest.
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Upcoming talk on Dell’s New Cloud Strategy
I’ll have a little cameo on a webinar tomorrow, speaking broadly to Dell’s cloud strategy. It’d a good chance to see what we’re up to now-a-days and how we think about it. This will be one of the first, public overviews of our cloud approach since we announced we were no longer building and running…
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Not sure which half works
In a separate study, out of 3000 marketers surveyed 41 percent said they were “uncertain” about the effectiveness of Facebook marketing. –Brands allocating most of social marketing budget on Facebook, uncertain of worth That’s too bad. All this fancy Big Data and clicking was supposed to fix that old quote.
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Microsoft keeps fast following to the cloud
In addition to Azure, Microsoft is offering other cloud services through Intune, its Internet-based computer management service. Developed for small offices with limited IT help, Intune provides a set of automated updating and management functionality for keeping Windows-based business computers in operating order. A quiet success for Microsoft, Intune now is used by more than…
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The Internet is now the check-out isle
I’m not actually mad at either Scalzi or Amazon; I’m getting good entertainment value for money. But I am in awe at the effortlessness with which successive instalments of cash are being whisked out of my wallet. In the hands of someone evil, this could be dangerous. –The Scalzi/Amazon Trap Have you seen that meme…
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Server sales
Basically, if you sold a Unix or proprietary server, your revenues shrank. –The Server Biz Stalls In The First Quarter
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All about SoftLayer
Pretty detailed overview of SoftLayer and their approach to cloud: With over 100,000 servers under management in 13 data centers, SoftLayer has one of the largest IT operations in the world. –SoftLayer sticks with Super Micro servers, ponders Open Compute
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Breakdancing at the food-court
Contemporary American culture venerates the entrepreneurs who create the new corporate commons in which we now spend most of our work and leisure time—the mall inside our screens. –There’s a Zucker born every minute I haven’t read the rest yet, but that part sure is fun.
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Why it’s so different now
Compare the state of play in 2013 versus 15 years ago. 33% of the world is on the Internet on average of 3.1 hours / day. There are 138 million smart phones in the US alone and … wait … 99 million tablets. Insane. 2008 App ecosystem on iOS = $0. 2013 = $25 billion…
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Who’s collecting Android profits?
As you have probably guessed, the one making the most profit from Android is market leader Samsung, but the actual figure may come as a surprise, as it’s said to have taken almost 95 percent of the global profits earned from the mobile OS during the first quarter of 2013. Analysts broke it down like…
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Netscape finally wins
Chrome is doing its job: Google’s signals sit on top of an increasing number of PCs, slowly making the underlying OS irrelevant. –more…
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