Category: tech
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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…
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OpenStack: It’s easy if you’re a full stack developer
“OpenStack talent is a rarified discipline,” McKenty said, adding, “to be good with OpenStack, you need to be a systems engineer, a great programmer but also really comfortable working with hardware. You need to understand how the infrastructure works under the covers.” … “There’s 2,000 people working on OpenStack on the vendor side, and the…
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The email iron grip
First, Microsoft and other vendors like IBM still have a tight grip on the largest companies. Gartner analyst Tom Eid—who predicts that enterprise email alone will be a $5 billion global industry this year, growing about 10% from last year—confirms this. He estimates that Microsoft still commands 75% of the market’s spending, versus about 3%…
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Let’s take \”enterprise\” out of the parking lot
> Rather than build out your next Instagram or SnapChat knock-off, consider disrupting 30 years of clunky software with horrendous user interfaces. The office-drone masses will bless you for it. [Let’s take “enterprise” out of the parking lot](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteenterprise/~3/3C0X6UX3cc8/enterprise-tech-boom-cool-to-be-boring)
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When looking to split a large application into parts, often management focuses on the technology layer, leading to UI teams, server-side logic teams, and database teams. When teams are separated along these lines, even simple changes can lead to a cross-team project taking time and budgetary approval. A smart team will optimise around this and…
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The Coconut Plane
@valleyhack Well, Cargo Cults tend to think they’ve got it pretty good until they try and land the coconut plane via the bamboo radar — Jack Clark (@mappingbabel) July 18, 2014 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js The Coconut Plane
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Three screens
Microsoft shot for consistency with Metro, putting the square interface on its tablets, phones and PCs under something it called three-screens and the cloud. Yet Microsoft was wrong to lump PC users in with device users, as it turned out neither customers nor developers wanted Metro on their PC – they hated it. There is…
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\”Hell is other people,\” but don’t let that stop you
> Lot and lots of discussion about culture and culture change. This discussion has been going on since forever, and if we are being frank with ourselves, it isn’t going to change dramatically soon. > > So what to do? Don’t lets make the culture change discussion stop us from doing things. Have a go,…
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It’s hard to know what’s really running in all them clouds
I just keep getting questioned: “What’s big in cloud and what’s really happening?” You see people saying the cloud market is a hundred bazillion whatever, most of it unsubstantiated. When you drill in, you find they were making numbers up, top down. Enterprise markets are trillions and trillions, so it’s got to be some percentage…
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Converged infrastructure to grow to $6bn in 2014
Gartner, in its “Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems” report, a copy of which was reviewed by CRN, estimated the market for integrated systems, which includes single-vendor and multivendor converged infrastructures and hyper-converged infrastructures, will grow more than 50 percent in 2014 over 2013 to reach $6 billion. Converged infrastructure to grow to $6bn in 2014
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Things are going bonkers in the cloud orchistration, cluster management space
Recently we have seen Docker cluster management projects appearing which are predominantly focused on managing clusters in a single provider’s environment. Clocker is designed to deploy and manage Docker clusters in a portable and cloud provider agnostic way. Clocker can even be used on-premise exploiting an enterprise’s virtual or private cloud environment. Along with things…
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Self-service IT to bring in $10m/qtr for BMC
MyIT 2.0 started shipping at the end of April, and is already off to a fast start with nearly $5M in deals during BMC’s fourth quarter — including major telecom, financial services, transportation and consumer packaged goods customers. BMC expects MyIT 2.0 will generate $10 million per quarter in revenue going forward, with pull-through revenue…
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The hardest thing for most first-time engineering managers is getting used to the fact that the sum of your importance is now far beyond simply the code you write or the infrastructure you design. Your job just got a lot harder, you need to balance more distractions and learn how to keep yourself out of…
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Ode to Robert Brook, in so much as aping how he uses tumblr instead of Twitter
I have been thinking about that Merlin idea: “is this the group of people I want to hang out with an be associated with?” and how it drives long term career planning. Except for me, I think it’s “ideas,” and people in so much as they’re mediums for ideas. (Things have mostly worked out for…
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DevOps is actually a thing – and people are willing to pay for it (Register Column)
My second column at The Channel Register is up, a quick overview of our recent DevOps work at 451. They’ve got a fine strapline: “But you’ve got to untangle deployment wizards from the duct-tape cats” At the moment, there’s some charts missing from it – I’m sure they’ll show up soon. In the meantime, you…
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New cloud category: “Cloud Enabled Managed Hosting”
To some extent Gartner has recognized that managed cloud is in its infancy and has named Rackspace in its 2014 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), a report that focuses on multi-tenant cloud infrastructure providers. At Rackspace, we’re looking forward to seeing the upcoming Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Enabled Managed Hosting, North America, which…
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The Great Rewrite, IBM style: a “reordering”
[Big Data, cloud and social/mobile] are truly going to change the profile of this company. And, if you think about it, actually they’re going to change the profile of this industry. As I like to think of it, the industry is reordering. If you take cloud, data and engagement, those are shifts that taken in…
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\”M.C. Escher’s cloud\”
Always love some funny writing, eh? > Since Google’s (virtualized) cloud is itself built on top of Linux containerization, this means developers will enter into the paradoxical situation of running a container-based OS on a hypervisor on top of a container. [“M.C. Escher’s cloud”](http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/23/google_loads_coreos_onto_its_cloud/)
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Solving for the Dr. No problem with cloud
This is the common staffing benefit of new technologies: As such, Redmond says, the result is not that IT becomes redundant; it becomes more strategically important than ever. And, significantly, it goes from being a department that normally says “no” to user requests to one that can start saying “yes.” Even comparatively minor things, such…
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“Rackspace simply cannot play in that league”
Good ol’ TPM! Also: Rackspace is also the largest publicly traded cloud and hosting provider, and unlike its rivals, its numbers are right out there. No one knows for sure what revenues and profits AWS, Microsoft, and Google are getting from their cloud and hosting businesses, and ditto for smaller players and telcos who also…
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