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.

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!

Tech & Work World Quick Hits Rackspace reports solid growth in the third quarter - time to turn back on the love-pipes, I guess. The point being: it’s hard to figure out how to rate a company, esp. on short-term financials. Microsoft rebrands Lync as ‘Skype for Business’; readies 2015 releases (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet) - people tell me that Lync now is great, and I hope it is.

Follow-up It’s been awhile. The family and I were on vacation for a bit in Paris, and then I was at the OpenStack Summit. Tech & Work World Quick Hits Why Podcasting Is Bigger Than You Think – Edison Research (Annotated Tab Pile) - there’s a thought-technology battle going on to convince people that podcasts are a viable advertising medium. Sounds good to me. SquareSpace, right?

Follow-up Hey there! It’s been awhile. I warned you, things are monkey-balls over here. Tech & Work World Quick Hits Nancy Gohring summarizes OpenStack vendor sports of late - an excellent, concise overview of the OpenStack movements of late. Nancy is one of the best tech reporters out there working on cloud. I’m glad she’s over on thenewstack.io too. Double Whammy: IBM Sheds Chip Unit As Financial Woes Hit Hard - Power lives on.

Tech & Work World Quick Hits Join the Foglight beta The look of a leader Developer Events Run Down: What’s Coming Up and What Not to Miss - nice list of developer related events coming up Comparing Uber &co. To traditional taxi fares - yes, indeed. With New Analytics Service, Salesforce Challenges Startup Visualization Crowd - back in the 2000s or so, Business Intellegence was a natural next step for ERP.

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