Author: Coté
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How’s VCE been doin’?
$1B annual run rate, 1,000+ vBlocks sold (cumulative?), with $1.3B investment, founded 2011. More: How’s VCE been doin’?
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Spiceworks Segmentation Stats
three years ago 65-70 percent of Spiceworks users were from companies that had fewer than 100 employees. In the last 24 months, however, that has completely turned on its head, and now 75 percent of usage comes from companies with 100 employees or more. Specifically the two fastest growing segments are companies with 500-1,000 employees…
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Yahoo! ‘won’t screw Tumblr’? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet
It’s all true, and yet it seems like a good idea still. More: Yahoo! ‘won’t screw Tumblr’? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet
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The beast known as Samsung
If there was a common thread among everyone The Verge spoke with for this story, it was Samsung’s brutal dominance: the Korean giant’s own-sourced display and processor combined with an enormous marketing war chest make competing in Android extraordinarily difficult. —The beast known as Samsung
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Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model | Ars Technica
I love it when companies let you pay to stop showing ads: it gives you a good sense for how much each customer (each pair of "eyeballs") is worth. Here, $50/year. More: Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model | Ars Technica
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QLIK Rising: As DATA Soars, BMO Cheers New Analytics Approach
Watch over the next 2 years as the Big 4 of BI (IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Microstragy) battle distuption from well funded upstarts. Folks like SAS snd Terradata will have to pick sides. More: QLIK Rising: As DATA Soars, BMO Cheers New Analytics Approach
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A peek inside AWS
The engineer says for $7,500 a month, Amazon will guarantee they will be on dedicated hardware, and not just have the IP addresses segmented through the VPC. Noisy neighbors are usually only a problem for larger customers though, he says. … He considers Google to be a serious threat to AWS, but not Azure. "Anyone…
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Tableau IPO’ing – Big DATA
It’s expected to have a valuation of $1.4B. I love it when pure play software company IPO’s because you get a peak at their financials and how they’re run for a specific type of software. More: Tableau IPO’ing – Big DATA
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Virtualization Adoption as a Guide for Cloud Adoption
“By starting with test and dev with virtualization, you could ensure that you had a high degree of success, gain your skills and then move on to infrastructure and finally tier-two apps. Then maybe three years later you got to business-critical apps. “Just as it was a big mistake to try to start virtualization with…
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PoS Disruption
Local business owners take as a given that they need an ugly, slow, expensive and complicated point of sale system cluttering their counter. –Square unveils new iPad stand dubbed Square Stand The spread of iOS into retail/PoS is a great disruption story playing out right in front of us. The fact that they’re called PoS’s…
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Verizon Enterprise M&A
Look at the genealogy here, starting with our first move, the acquisition of MCI back in 2006. That provided us this very expansive global IP backbone network. [Then we moved] on to Cybertrust Managed Security capabilities in 2007, and then further on with Terremark in 2011, then a company called CloudSwitch, then Hughes Telematics, as…
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Google pools cloud storage
It’s a slow race to capture the white-collar worker segment. More: Google pools cloud storage
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SAP Takes It All to the Cloud
“We will do cloud-based ERP on a massive scale,” said Vishal Sikka, a member of SAP’s executive board and one of the people who oversaw the project. Of SAP’s regular product, he said, “At some point in the future, complex implementations should go away. All of our products are moving to HANA.” —SAP Takes It…
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EMC World: Pivotal boss Paul Maritz talks up plans for new firm
EMC believes that the third era will be one of mobile devices, cloud computing and big data…. "We don’t want you to build an app in Amazon’s cloud and have to pay Amazon a tax for the rest of its lifecycle." —EMC World: Pivotal boss Paul Maritz talks up plans for new firm
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Bowl Cherries, circa long ago
Was the Renaissance something that you put on and took off like a diadem, or was it something you did even while you slept? —Bowl Cherries, circa long ago
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Why developers are the king makers
Last week I was at on a Dell event panel representing Dell cloud think. Our moderator asked if developers are really in the driver seat – here’s the answer! What else would you expect from a RedMonk? ;> Also, Andy Rhode’s car fleet analogy is a good one for explaining bespoke IT vs. cloud IT.
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The Money Shot
At Stanford, Systrom opted to go abroad to Florence, Italy, for the winter term of his junior year, where he focused on photography. A teacher there persuaded him to switch from his Nikon to a plastic Holga that took square photos, a choice that would be echoed later at Instagram. —The Money Shot
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You go to war with the knowledge you have
“Managing the incompleteness of communications” is core to mastering agile software development. —Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) I recall reading the first edition of this book years ago. Man, that was fun.
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Building a Great Team (Dell buys Enstratius)
With the Enstratius acquisition, Dell is getting a group of people with deep influence in the community. Founder George Reese is an O’Reilly author and a cloud pioneer. He is supported by James Urquhart, Bernard Golden and John Willis, all recognized as influencers in the cloud community. —Alex Williams, TechCruch cloud strength.Welcome @botchagalupe @davidajbagley @georgereese…
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The trouble with our increasing clock speed
Through it all, we don’t have to become hermits. But we must not allow ourselves to continue being junkies. —The trouble with our increasing clock speed
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