Category: BigCo
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How’s HPE doing? Shrinking on purpose & otherwise
Many quotes of HPE’s CEO, Meg Whitman, explaining the state of HPE, 18 months after all the hijinks. Also, notes on some further cost reductions in the works: “We believe we can take out another $200 million to $300 million in cost in just the second half of this year.” Stuart Lauchlan’s conclusion: No-one can…
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The coming billions in updating bank’s COBOL stacks
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, for instance, replaced its core banking platform in 2012 with the help of Accenture and software company SAP SE. The job ultimately took five years and cost more than 1 billion Australian dollars ($749.9 million). Being conservative, multiply $500m across the top 20 banks, and you’ve got $10bn, using $749.8m directly,…
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Michael Dell on Pivotal, 130% growth y/y
Pivotal had a pretty major milestone this last quarter, over a quarter-billion dollars in 2016 bookings, up 130 percent year-over-year. The momentum with Pivotal in terms of digital transformation is white hot. Pivotal is now engaged in a third of the Fortune 100, and I would say the strategy so far has been to only…
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Final prices for Dell Services and Software divestitures: $3bn & $2.4bn
On March 27, 2016, Dell entered into a definitive agreement with NTT Data International L.L.C. to sell substantially all of Dell Services for cash consideration of approximately $3.0 billion. On June 19, 2016, Dell entered into a definitive agreement with Francisco Partners and Elliot Management Corporation to sell substantially all of Dell Software Group for…
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The Economist on Amazon – Highlights
Video: “In 2017 Amazon is expected to spend $4.5bn on television and film content, roughly twice what HBO will spend. But it has a big payoff.” Prime momentum: “Mr Nowak reckons the company had 72m Prime members last year, up by 32% from 2015.” Cloud: “Last year AWS’s revenue reached $12bn, up by more than…
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The role of enterprise architects in cloud-native organizations
My colleague Richard has a nice post suggesting the new functions enterprise architects can play in a cloud-native organization. I like this one in particular, help make the change: Champion new team organization patterns. As an architect, you can bring developers and operations teams together. Recognize that functional silos slow down delivery. A DevOps-type approach…
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Mulesoft to IPO with $187.7m revenue in 2016, losses of $49.6m
The San Francisco-headquartered business revealed it pulled in $187.7m last year, up 170 per cent from its $110.3m in revenue in 2015. Gross profits were just over $138m from $78m, and net losses decreased to a piddling $49.6m, down from $65.4m the year before. Another take from Barb Darrow, inc.: Mulesoft has raised $1.5 billion…
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Meddling with Apple and Chinese Manufacturing
A nice discussion that highlights the complexity id trade policy and, thus, rhe high risks of fucking it up. I like this critique of trade criticism: What makes Navarro’s critique challenging is that it’s not wholly wrong, at least from the American worker perspective, yet it’s not particularly actionable. So often, that last part is…
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2% increase in IT budgets predicted
The big takeaway is that small increases in IT budgets are the new normal. Unlike previous recoveries, we have not seen a large jump in IT spending over the past five years. So if a CIO is only seeing a two or three percent increase this year, he or she should understand that is pretty…
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On-prem still a big thing, Gartner survey
only 10% of organizations surveyed by Gartner are expected to close their on-premises data centers by 2018 Much of Pivotal’s business is on-premises, very much if it. However, most large organizations I talk with really want to get to much more public cloud as soon as possible. They look to Pivotal Cloud Foundry’s multi-cloud compatibility…
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Book Review: two DevOps books
Check out my review of the DevOps Handbook and Start and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise over on The New Stack. Unsurprisingly, I liked both of them, esp. the second: What I find so helpful, and even thrilling, about Gruver’s book, is that it’s exacting in its instructions and walks through several what-if scenarios for addressing common…
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Asking questions often leads to more work, for you
Most of what we do as white-collar workers is help our organization come to a decision. What new geographies to sell our enterprise software and toothpaste in, what pricing to make our electric razors and cranes, which people to fire and which to promote, or how much budget is needed according to the new corporate…
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Avoid fence painting by assigning homework
One of the more eye-rolling tactics of white collar workers is what I call “fence painting”: an employee somehow gets someone else to do work for them. This can be as simple as coasting off budget, but the more insidious practice is to get other outside your chain of command to do work for you.…
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Dead Horse Points
In corporate meetings, oftentimes one person figures out a problem and comes up with a solution. Equally often, multiple people in the meeting like the re-iterate the point in their own words, adding 5–10 minutes more to the meeting. Once the epiphany and decision is made, everyone should just close the issue, and move on.…
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A tale of two ITs | Business Cloud News
“The challenges are cultural, organisational, and technical. According to the 2015 BCN Annual Industry Survey, which petitioned over 700 senior IT decision makers, over 67 per cent of enterprises plan to implement multiple cloud services over the next 18 months, but close to 70 per cent were worried about how those services would integrate with…
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Gartner Says Demand for Enterprise Mobile Apps Will Outstrip Available Development Capacity Five to One
“Organizations increasingly find it difficult to be proactive against competitive pressures, which is resulting in their mobile apps becoming tactical, rather than strategic,” said Mr. Leow. “We’re seeing demand for mobile apps outstrip available development capacity, making quick creation of apps even more challenging. Mobile strategists must use tools and techniques that match the increase…
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The Need for U.S. Digital Engagement
“Twenty years ago, 61 percent of the Internet’s 35 million users were based in the U.S. Today, the U.S. accounts for less than 10 percent of the 3 billion connected people worldwide. There are now 650 million Internet users in China (compared with 280 million in the U.S.) There will be as many as 550…
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New Dell Cloud Manager Release Simplifies Management and Consumption of Cloud Services Across Organizations
“Dell Cloud Manager v11 features new state-of-the-art distributed blueprint support based on the TOSCA standard, simplifying portability and management of cloud applications and services throughout their lifecycle. New support for Windows Azure Pack and enhanced support for Microsoft Azure give Microsoft customers the first independent unified solution to centrally manage their combined private and public…
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DevOps Mumbo Jumbo & Zombies – thwackCamp panel
A few weeks back I was on a panel for a Solarwinds conference (done all online, in Solarwinds style, of course). Check out the recording a above (or just a 1 minute excerpt if you don’t have time). There’s also an article covering the discussion. For some reason we started talking a lot about QA,…
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Coté Memo #074: \”Let’s start an anonymous club.\”
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