Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas - “Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas” - I am not overstating it when I say this is the easiest/cheapest tech marketing problem to fix that is the least done.

Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference 2024 Las Vegas: Day 1 Highlights - Finally, survey says it’s working: “Within I&O, 70% of GenAI investments so far have exceeded or greatly exceeded leadership expectations for productivity."

Legacy Shmegacy - A bad mindset pushes you into the legacy trap and keeps you there. Here’s how change that mindset and what to change it to.

The buyer of the $6.2 million banana art piece eats it - “To be honest, for a banana with such a back story, the taste is naturally different from an ordinary one."

The Tarot of Pips - Mystic d6.

Words Matter - “but the point is really that public services should be effective, not disruptive."

FOMO is not a strategy • Buttondown - Enterprise AI as more “personal efficiencies rather than organisational gains” // Also, you need your data cleaned and structured. And, applying AI at an organizational level is likely difficult.

Gartner Identifies Top Three Priorities for CMOs to Deliver Marketing Excellence in 2025 - They’re probably waiting for that CSV file they requested weeks ago: “In a survey of over 6,000 U.S. consumers conducted in July and August 2024, 58% reported that the companies trying to sell them something don’t have a good understanding of their needs and preferences.” And: “What’s perplexing about this is that marketing has never had more access to data, or more technology tasked with building customer understanding and targeting messages. Right now, technology-driven customer engagement is at an inflection point."

Broadcom Announces the General Availability of VMware Tanzu Platform 10 - Tanzu - New version of our new PaaS. If you write and run your own app in big companies, you should check it out. Kubernetes for mortals, and Cloud Foundry for the gourmands.

Dell’s stock falls on weak guidance, as more customers hold off for next-gen AI servers - Modeling the AI market tricky, they say: ‘Dell Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke (pictured) told analysts on a conference call that growth of artificial intelligence server sales is likely to swing quite wildly from quarter to quarter due to the pace of innovation in that industry. “This business will not be linear, especially as customers navigate the underlying silicon roadmap that is changing,” he said.'