Global cloud and data center-delivered managed network services doubled in size from $1,384 million in 2009 to $2,606 million in 2015, according to a report from Statista, a New York City research firm. While those seem like impressive growth numbers, the MSP Alliance has estimated managed services revenue generated by cloud and managed service providers (MSPs) in North America during 2014 equaled $154 billion. In addition, 451 Research predicts that the value of managed services from cloud service providers will grow from $17 billion in 2014 to $43 billion in 2018.
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Multi-cloud
“At least half of the calls I take are clients that are either actively planning or are already actively deploying a multi-provider strategy,” said Mindy Cancila, an analyst with Gartner, Inc. based in Stamford, Conn. “I believe most organizations are going to end up with more than one public cloud provider, whether they realize it yet or not.”
Two side-notes:
Man, I hope we all start saying “multi-cloud” instead of hybrid cloud.
As the new space intended, I’ve formed interesting, unexpected bonds with my cohorts. But my personal performance at work has hit an all-time low. Each day, my associates and I are seated at a table staring at each other, having an ongoing 12-person conversation from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. It’s like being in middle school with a bunch of adults. Those who have worked in private offices for decades have proven to be the most vociferous and rowdy. They haven’t had to consider how their loud habits affect others, so they shout ideas at each other across the table and rehash jokes of yore. As a result, I can only work effectively during times when no one else is around, or if I isolate myself in one of the small, constantly sought-after, glass-windowed meeting rooms around the perimeter.
That’s what I ended up doing at Dell, except they had a lot of little glass “flex spaces.” I just claimed one each day for a year and half. It was great!
As we have grown and evolved, we’ve realized that the best salespeople don’t have to necessarily be trained in retail. They just need to be trained in life.
http://fortune.com/2014/12/26/container-store-sharon-tindell/
"Hybrid cloud ROI isn’t there, and the complexity is huge."
From Steven Sinofsky:
As an enterprise, the pragmatic thing to do is go public cloud and operate existing infrastructure as legacy, without trying to sprinkle cloud on it or spend energy trying to deeply integrate with a cloud solution. The transition to client-server, GUI or Web all provide ample evidence in failed bridge solutions, a long tail of “wish we hadn’t done that” and few successes worth the effort. As a startup, it will be tempting to work to land customers who will pay you to be a bridge, but that will only serve to keep you behind your competitors who are skipping a hybrid solution.
Unlike Office Online and Google Docs, the Dropbox badge doesn’t support real-time editing. That means if you edit a document while someone else is working on it, you’ll still be able to save it locally, but you’ll have to manually figure how you want to merge in your changes.
Everything sounded awesome until I got to that part…
The first wave of IBM/Apple enterprise iOS apps
A good looking list from the press release:
Plan Flight (Travel and Transportation) addresses the major expense of all airlines — fuel — permitting pilots to view flight schedules, flight plans, and crew manifests ahead of time, report issues in-flight to ground crews, and make more informed decisions about discretionary fuel.
Passenger+ (Travel and Transportation) empowers flight crews to offer an unmatched level of personalized services to passengers in-flight – including special offers, re-booking, and baggage information.
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Coté Memo #056: the $110,000 a year blogger, investing in barf bags
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Puppet Labs pushes ahead with more staff, broader enterprise DevOps deployments - a recent 451 Research report from Jay Lyman on my team, now free for everyone.
Software Defined Talk #17: DevOps is the New Agile - another fine episode of Software Defined Talk. Be sure to check out my cheesy DevOps market timing if you like that kind of thing.
Coté Memo #055: It's cold in Toronto
Follow-up I mentioned the Software Defined Talk recording last week, the episode is up for those who were waiting.
At DockerCon EU - turns out I’ll be at the Amsterdam DocerCon the first week of Dec, just for a day and half, though. If you’re there, it’d be fun to meetup. I’ll have been traveling all of that week, so you can see my brain turned to mush!