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Links, news articles, clippings, etc. – classic blog-style.

  • The cost of old corporate code

    [A]pplication development and maintenance eats up 34 percent of the total IT budget and that by getting rid of legacy applications, simplifying complex architectures, and ceasing outdated approaches to IT staffing, companies can cut those application development and maintenance costs in half. The cost of old corporate code

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  • A 13-year study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has revealed that if you take naps during the day, your life is going to be short… The report, which was performed by researchers at Cambridge University, studied the habits of over 16,000 men and women in Britain and found that those who take naps…

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  • Surprise, surprise: New survey shows public cloud adoption way, way up

    Pretty good stuff in there. It’s really dodgy figuring out what people are doing in/with cloud at this point, and on which side of the firewall, so every data point and anecdote helps. Surprise, surprise: New survey shows public cloud adoption way, way up

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  • “App notifications upon low egg inventory”

    Apparently, this is a real thing. Via Stacey Higginbotham. “App notifications upon low egg inventory”

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  • Working up Twitter, and then letting it take over

    I have to work myself up in the morning to Twitter, because it’s so immediate and stressful. You shouldn’t have to dive completely into it. At first I’ll scroll through, and see if there’s anything from the last half hour or so that I may have missed while I was getting myself mentally prepared for…

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  • You can expect us to make sure we drive Office 365 everywhere – Web, all phones, all tablets, PCs. That’s our real commitment to Office 365. Satya Nadella unveiling Office on the iPad. Check out our coverage of Satya’s ascension to CEO as well.

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  • Yes. I’d stop. I’d make things for myself, for my friends at home instead. The bar needs to be high. I don’t think that will happen. We are at the beginning of a remarkable time, when a remarkable number of products will be developed. When you think about technology and what it has enabled us…

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  • Fraud in web ad traffic

    About 36% of all Web traffic is considered fake, the product of computers hijacked by viruses and programmed to visit sites, according to estimates cited recently by the Interactive Advertising Bureau trade group. And, web advertising continues to take over US marketshare: Spending on digital advertising—which includes social media and mobile devices—is expected to rise…

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  • Lessons from Inbox Zero

    Also, I’ve had to accept that some emails/actions require a laptop. I’d love to keep my inbox clean from my mobile devices, but they are sometimes only sufficient for triage. Lessons from Inbox Zero

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  • Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack

    So far, those 200 organizations have enrolled more than 1,000 staff members in Mirarantis’s OpenStack training and certification program. Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack

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  • Raining during SXSW

    # SXSW It’s SXSW time in Austin which is always enjoyable. Lots of folks come to town as I’m sure you, dear reader, know. It’s popular to complain. – a sentence that could stand on it’s own – about it, but I have no beef. I’m lucky enough – so lucky! – to get invited…

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  • [up.anv.bz/latest/an…](http://up.anv.bz/latest/anvload.html?key=eyJtIjoiTElOIiwicCI6ImRlZmF1bHQiLCJ2IjoiMjM1NDg4In0=) Oh no, the original Kim Phung caught on fire! (Source: http://up.anv.bz/)

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  • Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM

    Kay said that on average, partners that have made the transition to the cloud early with IBM are seeing accelerated revenue growth of 2.5 times the average with the cloud In theory, the cloud abhors middleman. We’ll see. Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM

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  • [T]here will be classes of developers that go after Git and they’ll love Git for what it allows them to do which is to stay off the radar until their tiered promotion gets it ultimately to visibility, but there will be other shops that want to have that visibility the entire time and their compliance…

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  • Finally, I have discovered a horrible, rather brutal method that I recommend only to men of excessive vigor, men with thick black hair and skin covered with liver spots, men with big square hands and legs shaped like bowling pins. It is a question of using finely pulverized, dense coffee, cold and anhydrous, consumed on…

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  • The result is plain to see: Caring about the product means that it can be priced at a point which consumers care to pay. @asymco

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  • Companies with cash flows are valued on those flows. Companies without cash flows are valued on usage. Co’s with both have usage valued at 0 — Horace Dediu (@asymco) February 19, 2014

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  • Interest from new places in Power chips

    It’d be loopy, in a fun way, to see a renewed interest in Power, esp. from “commodity hardware” cloud people. Interest from new places in Power chips

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  • Hadoop moving into production

    A recent IDC survey of 202 large companies already experimenting with Hadoop found that 32 percent had moved it to production environments, and another 31 percent are in the process of doing so within 12 months. Hadoop moving into production

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  • Hadoop growth measured by Teradata disruption

    Approximately one-third of our top 50 customers in the Americas have Hadoop in production now, with the other two-thirds in various stages of evaluations. —CEO Mike Koehler Hadoop growth measured by Teradata disruption

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