“But microservices want to bring you into tomorrow,” says Winterberg. “Microservices add a bit to the category concept, defining a service over all application layers, including the UI. So people already doing SOA may gain a kind of new freedom by adopting microservice ideas.” That freedom includes technology independence and an alternative to aging technologies, because individual services within an application can be gradually swapped out for those based on more-modern technologies, without having to replace the entire application.
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The growth story was, like Amazon, all about the cloud.
Ben Thompson on his latest newsletter, on Microsoft’s earnings.
Chip Childers and the Cloud Foundry Foundation - Pivotal Conversations
My most recent Pivotal Conversations podcast is up. In it, I talk with Chip Childers of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Check out the show notes for a full transcript, or just take a listen.
The flywheel go-to-market model
The Flywheel Model differs from the Traditional Model in one fundamental regard. The enterprise sales team is exclusively inbound. They are explicitly denied the option of seeking business outside the customer base, and must gin up business from only existing customers. The enterprise sales team is an up-sell and cross-sell team. In fact, so is the mid-market sales team. Only the SMB marketing team is permitted to acquire new leads.
Survey shows companies want to use IT to drive growth
“The second-most-important category of business priority for 2015 and 2016 is technology related. This is the highest position we have ever seen for technology in this survey and it’s our firm belief that CEOs are more focused on this area than at any time since 1999,” said Mr. Raskino. “When we examine the subtext of the responses, the purpose of CEOs’ interest in technology becomes immediately obvious. Over half of the responses relate to revenue- and growth-related technology issues such as multichannel, e-commerce and m-commerce.
Microservices is a modern take on software architecture, in which complex applications are composed of small, independent processes communicating with each other using APIs. These services are small, highly decoupled and focus on doing a small task. The rise of Docker, the proliferation of third party developer tools and the increasing reliance on the cloud all play into the growth of microservices.
Lots of VC funding in Q1, highest since 2000Q1
At $13.4 billion in 1,020 deals, the first fiscal quarter of 2015 clocked in the most first-quarter funding since 2000. Investors threw 26 percent more money into deals than they did in the first quarter of 2014.
How much of that is software and tech?
The funding software companies received compared to startups in other sectors has doubled in the last decade, from 21 percent in the first quarter of 2006 to 42 percent in the first quarter of 2015.
This is the state of IT everywhere
Interesting inquiry with internal IT dept of a major cloud provider that wants to use AWS, and not their own company’s cloud service.
Old ways - and here, new! - of doing service management are just not cutting it.
This is the state of IT everywhere
There’s a leap once he starts talking about crotches, but the rest is pretty interesting and helpful for thinking through making resilliant businesses.
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Silicon Valley is coming. There are hundreds of startups with a lot of brains and money working on various alternatives to traditional banking. The ones you read about most are in the lending business, whereby the firms can lend to individuals and small businesses very quickly and – these entities believe – effectively by using Big Data to enhance credit underwriting. They are very good at reducing the “pain points” in that they can make loans in minutes, which might take banks weeks. We are going to work hard to make our services as seamless and competitive as theirs. And we also are completely comfortable with partnering where it makes sense.
Get your software defined business on, friends.