Category: tech
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Amazon getting into hybrid cloud storage
“AWS will have a long way to go to be able to accomplish this. They will need architects in the field, real people, they will need the help of the channel, allowing them to architect, sell and make good margin — perhaps white-label themselves like we have done with others,” Shepard told CRN. Amazon getting…
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RedHat’s PaaS, OpenShift out with new rev
The PaaS market has been heating up recently and Red Hat’s release of the latest version of its PaaS marks the latest move. Pivotal (which is a spin out from VMware and EMC) recently released its PaaS named CF, which is the productized version of the Cloud Foundry open source project. Meanwhile, Verizon recently announced…
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You kids get your API-less apps off my lawn!
I cut my teeth on the open web of the early 2000s. It was APIs, and mashups. Mac OS X turned my laptop into a web server and coding machine, just the same as where I hosted the toys and tools that I wrote. This is what the future was going to be like. And…
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Betting against IBM
Indeed, the numbers may back him up—cloud computing sure seems to be squeezing the vendor’s hardware business. The most recent evidence is clear: In Q3 2013, IBM’s systems revenue fell 19 percent, with its Power line falling 38 percent, System x sliding 18 percent and storage falling 11 percent. Among its hardware platforms, only System…
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SAP cloud revenue to reach ~€20B by 2017
Hagemann-Snabe reckoned any change would hit the company’s revenue for 2015 but it would have reclaimed any losses by 2017, such is growth in demand. He’s reported to have predicted cloud would lead to sales of more than 20bn Euro by that date. Greater focus on cloud comes after SAP reported a five per cent…
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The seven layer ROBO attack
At the branch office what the industry has done is stack up appliances for everything from unified communications to WAN optimization, firewalls, routers, wireless network controllers, etc., so if you have 10,000 offices and four appliances per, you have 40,000 appliances spread all over the place. So what this one says is, “We want to…
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A $50m super computer for $33k
Amazon today operates at a scale that most people are unaware of and find incomprehensible when they get a glimmer of understanding of it. Just to offer an example, one weekend Cycle Computing used EC2 spot instances to create a 156,000 core supercomputer that spanned 8 AWS regions and provided 1.2 Petaflops of processing power.…
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Dropbox at “hundreds of millions of dollars” in revenue
Of all the start-ups, though, Dropbox has seemed to enjoy the most meteoric growth. It just reached 200 million users—or about 10 times as many people as it had at the end of 2010. Its revenue has grown 20 fold since late 2010 and is now in the “hundreds of millions of dollars” per year…
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When white-collar workers have opinions
"The mobile revolution has given end-users the power to find new software, new ideas and new content all by themselves," he says. "If our users find a new mobile app that gives a better way to do their expense claim easily and efficiently, they will put pressure on their employer and say, ‘Why are we…
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People seem to be buying Chromebooks
Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300, according to NPD Group Inc. The devices, which have a full keyboard and get regular software updates from Google, are the fastest-growing part of the PC industry based on price,…
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Open Web Crew Blindsided
Then Facebook began to grow and grow. I remember the first time someone was showing me Facebook—it was Tantek of all people—I remember asking “But what is it for?” After all, Flickr was for photos, Delicious was for links, Dopplr was for travel. Facebook was for …everything …and nothing. I just didn’t get it. It…
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A surplus of innovation
Adrian Cockcroft, who runs all things cloud for Netflix, called it “technical indigestion.” His group is releasing an open source project a week – including new monitoring tools that came out this week. “We’re driving a lot of innovation but we’re giving people indigestion. There’s only so many blog posts you can read in a…
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Progress enabling SaaSify
“Our ISV customers have said, we want to be able to compete in the cloud,” explains CEO Philip Pead. So Progress also announced that it would be gradually moving its software components into the cloud, to create an all new "platform-as-a-service" offering. – Progress Software buys a new front end for its PaaS play You…
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The Joys of Marginalia
I can’t really concentrate on reading unless I have a pen in my hand. I love marginalia. I love used books and getting a glimpse of some stranger’s relationship to a book that is now in my life. I underline, star, box, vent, exclaim. I like rereading my books and seeing coffee stains or chocolaty…
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Planning is fine, but generally over-rated
He said he never sought lot of advice because if he had gone and asked people what he was about to do and work, they would have told him it wouldn’t work and dissuaded him from taking up the venture. “I would experiment experiment, test, go fast, fail fast. Planning is fine but generally over-rated,”…
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https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and M&A, so speaking publically was not really in the job description. Nonetheless, I pitched in with my marketing friends from time-to-time, as in this talk going over cloud as Dell saw it and advice for users. (Source: https://www.brighttalk.com/)
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The Internet is now the check-out isle
I’m not actually mad at either Scalzi or Amazon; I’m getting good entertainment value for money. But I am in awe at the effortlessness with which successive instalments of cash are being whisked out of my wallet. In the hands of someone evil, this could be dangerous. –The Scalzi/Amazon Trap Have you seen that meme…
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Spiceworks Segmentation Stats
three years ago 65-70 percent of Spiceworks users were from companies that had fewer than 100 employees. In the last 24 months, however, that has completely turned on its head, and now 75 percent of usage comes from companies with 100 employees or more. Specifically the two fastest growing segments are companies with 500-1,000 employees…
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A peek inside AWS
The engineer says for $7,500 a month, Amazon will guarantee they will be on dedicated hardware, and not just have the IP addresses segmented through the VPC. Noisy neighbors are usually only a problem for larger customers though, he says. … He considers Google to be a serious threat to AWS, but not Azure. "Anyone…
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Virtualization Adoption as a Guide for Cloud Adoption
“By starting with test and dev with virtualization, you could ensure that you had a high degree of success, gain your skills and then move on to infrastructure and finally tier-two apps. Then maybe three years later you got to business-critical apps. “Just as it was a big mistake to try to start virtualization with…
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