The app economy shows that there are big opportunities in “digital pennies” and that the figures are beginning to match even the “analog dollars”. In fact, I suspect eventually digital pennies will dwarf analog dollars. The trouble is that these pennies will not be earned at the same control points. Bits are already big bucks. They’re just not the bits we are used to.
“Digital pennies”
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Apigee adds usage analytics with InsightOne acquisition
The InsightsOne group has offered predictive analytics for consumer companies. It finds patterns from multiple sources of information. For example, Hasan explained how its analytics might help provide patterns in data from a fitness monitor but also health claim information. With that encompassing profile, a company may provide deeper intelligence insights.
One use-case area:
For example, there is the increasing amounts of data that people and machines create.
Bottoms up, viral spread still works
Cloud startups like Dropbox pose a problem because they are viral in their sign-up and billing. This is what has given them a foot in the door at SMBs and the departments of big companies, and resulted in CIOs’ business-collaboration platforms becoming based on Dropbox before they know it.
Also, some good insights into IBM go-to-market thinking around software.
Bottoms up, viral spread still works
Pretty good explanation of the Red Hat/CentOS kumbaya
“Red Hat’s open source business is strong enough that CentOS is effectively a mindshare force multiplier rather than a RHEL competitor,” noted Ryan Paul, Ars’ former open source guru.
And, making it harder for Oracle too.
Pretty good explanation of the Red Hat/CentOS kumbaya
Profile of SnapChat, and turning down billions
FORBES estimates that 50 million people currently use Snapchat. Median age: 18. Facebook, meanwhile, has admittedly has seen a decline among teenagers. Its average user is closer to 40. … “I can see why [SnapChat is] strategically valuable,” one leading venture capitalist tells FORBES. “But is it worth $3 billion? Not in any universe I’m aware of.
Profile of SnapChat, and turning down billions
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I’ve spent years puttering around at the “infrastructure layer” in IT: programming, systems management, cloud, all that gunk. From what I can tell much of the growth in IT is being driven by companies wanting to engage in “social” more. What is “social,” though? Indeed, that’s one of the things this podcast will try to figure out (hopefully with as much delightful rat-holing as Horace). Also, we’ll discuss my need for slippers that masquerade as socks so I can get them past my wife’s 2nd floor blockade.
Mostly though, it’s a McGuffin for getting to talk with Chris more.
On that note, here’s the video we recorded earlier. A podcast format with all the bells and whistles will follow.
We just having a working title now: Connected Culture and Obscure Stuff, which is much better than our original working title.
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SDN adoption expected to be slow
[L]ess than 30 percent of the 321 IT professionals surveyed have deployed or plan to deploy SDN in the next year. Add on another 40 percent that have no plans to implement SDN at all.
SDN adoption expected to be slow
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I worry far less about accepting a group that does badly than I do about rejecting one that does well. One that does well, sufficiently well, would pay for hundreds of other start ups that return nothing.
Paul Graham
IBM customizes OpenStack workload placement with Platform code
Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate server in which to place a new virtual machine based on policies crafted by the administrator. Criteria can include how much of each machine is already being used in terms of its CPU utilization, memory utilization and other factors.
I’d expect to see a lot more of this swapping stuff into OpenStack. For those companies with IP, it’s an easy way to differentiate.
IBM customizes OpenStack workload placement with Platform code
Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate server in which to place a new virtual machine based on policies crafted by the administrator. Criteria can include how much of each machine is already being used in terms of its CPU utilization, memory utilization and other factors.
I’d expect to see a lot more of this swapping stuff into OpenStack. For those companies with IP, it’s an easy way to differentiate.