The third option is to just ignore it and assume somebody will figure it out. Option three is quite common.
http://www.ibuildthecloud.com/blog/2014/08/12/evolution-of-docker-and-its-impact-on-aws/
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Well, this whole DevOps thing is going to rough, then
Smells like Agile in 2002:
Your DevOps efforts will probably fail unless your entire management team buys into the required changes, and executives recognize that they’re going to have to change the way they operate, as well.
Have fun storming the castle.
Anecdotally, I hear fun tales of BigCo’s being befuddled by all the changes needed here. It shows why it’s vital to prove to The Business side that it’s worth it, which is always tough for such dramatic changes.
HP software and channel sales
A summary of revenue:
[HP’s] software division - IT Management, Application Development, Vertica, security and Autonomy - turned over $3.91bn in fiscal 2013 ended last November, down from $4.06bn in the previous year.
With software, it’s good to focus on profits as well, as the margins are much higher.
A common problem with large companies is getting cross-selling, inside and out of the company:
“The biggest challenge for HP Software,” Youngjohns says, “is to get access to that broad range of HP partners and resellers, people selling systems and device solutions, to convince them software ought to be part of that proposition.
Pivotal shows good momentum in helping build 'programmable businesses' (451 Report)
I wrote a brief update on Pivotal recently, the full report is available for clients. Here’s the 451 Take:
Pivotal’s connection to the so-called ‘EMC Federation’ gives it an expansive portfolio, but we believe that Pivotal’s core message reduces to, “Hello, Global 2000 enterprises. The middleware stacks you use to build and run your enterprise applications are not so good. Ours is better, so you should use it for new applications development and to rewrite old applications.
Dell's end-user device management portfolio, KACE, has grown revenue 5x since acquisition (451 Report)
I checked in with Dell’s end-user device management folks, KACE, recently and wrote up a report. Patching and all that isn’t exactly thrilling (but, as they say, necessary), however, it’s interesting to see the momentum the acquisition has had since 2010. Because we’d been collecting revenue from KACE over the years (thanks to Dennis), we could estimate what growing the business 5x looked like.
The full report which goes over recent updates, competition, etc.
Hey, biz bods: OpenStack will be worth $3.3bn by 2018 (Register Column)
My new somewhat monthly column in the channel section of The Register is up. It goes over 451’s recent OpenStack market-sizing and relates some anecdotes about how common it is to get outside help with private cloud installs. You know, of interest to people who’d be reading up on channel stuff.
One of the co-authors of the 451 report also has a nice summary up, available for free. The folks at Piston pointed out that you could misread one of the mentions of them saying that their customers require PS work.
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Summary
Bill and Coté discuss trying to explain DevOps, DevOps metrics, and the processes used by designers vs. software developers vs. management consultants vs. wedding planners. We also go over the recently US Digital Services Playbook, which looks pretty cool actually.
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Your friends @cote and @BillHiggins
DevOps, what is it?
- Observations from the field - Bill has been on a tour visiting Kickstarter, Etsy, and IBM teams - what are they doing, how is it different, etc.?
- The US Digital Services Playbook. What is this?
- What is DevOps? Bill says “I use the term as a tool.”
- “What is DevOps,” from June 2012
- “Revisting ‘What is DevOps,’” from June 2014
- A recent presentation on DevOps metrics.
- Also, see Jay Lyman’s take and Jay and I’s guesting on a recent DevOps Café podcast episode.
IBM Design, Process
- Bill now works in the IBM Design Group now.
- What are “Design” people like? Ideation, post-it notes, user-centric thinking.
- Three schools of process: software development, design, management consulting.
Recommendations
- Behind Human Error, second edition - how companies learn from errors, why they happen, and how to move on.
- The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error
- Moral Mazes - Coté’s favorite field guide for working at a BigCo.
That IBM/CSC partnership
The new offerings bring IBM solutions around SoftLayer Infrastructure-as-a-Service and BlueMix to CSC customers, including integrating them with the CSC ServiceMesh Agility Platform. The agreement will bring ServiceMesh Agility Platform to the IBM Cloud Marketplace.
More:
CSC said the IBM alliance will help the company grab a piece of Gartner’s predicted $210 billion market for application services in 2014 and help continue to pivot the solution provider around as-a-Service solutions.
How Dell segments out the server market
As detailed by Dell’s Forrest Norrod:
We typically think in big animal terms. The true hyperscale market is a very small set of customers, maybe the top seven to ten players. The scale-out customers sit below these, and include Web tech, HPC, and the large financial institutions for their quant farms. The core enterprise comes next and includes converged, high-value workloads and volume workloads, and finally there is the SMB/value segment.
Don't confuse influencers with check-signers
Tracking the exact mechanics of bottoms-up shifts in IT is as hard as tracking “real cloud” spend, if not harder:
I would listen to developers, but more likely an architect or head of development than allow the grass roots to start buying and using anything they wanted. I am not naive enough to believe that developers don’t go out and look at neat new stuff, a developer happy and content to just do maintenance on existing software is a rare commodity indeed.