Category: tech
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Verizon Enterprise M&A
Look at the genealogy here, starting with our first move, the acquisition of MCI back in 2006. That provided us this very expansive global IP backbone network. [Then we moved] on to Cybertrust Managed Security capabilities in 2007, and then further on with Terremark in 2011, then a company called CloudSwitch, then Hughes Telematics, as…
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Why developers are the king makers
Last week I was at on a Dell event panel representing Dell cloud think. Our moderator asked if developers are really in the driver seat – here’s the answer! What else would you expect from a RedMonk? ;> Also, Andy Rhode’s car fleet analogy is a good one for explaining bespoke IT vs. cloud IT.
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DevOpsDays Austin
I was in and out of DevOpsDays Austin over the past few days. It’s always a fun, event, packed with plenty of old friends and folks to catch up. We gave away a Sputnik to a lucky winner, a fine fellow from Boston as I recall. Also, check out Barton’s video interview with Patrick Debois.
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The Secret to IaaS Success? Don’t Beat Amazon Web Services
I suspect the prevalent “slow follower” mentality within the public IaaS companies that are chasing AWS will continue. So too will the confusion about their inability to catch up with AWS, let alone pass them by. At the end of the day, this is about inventing new ways to provide better and more resilient computing…
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Forrester: Middle-Aged Developers Driving Cloud Computing – ReadWrite
In other words, as with open source, these developers can’t be bothered with corporate bureaucracy. In an earlier Forrester survey, developers said the primary benefit of the cloud is that it’s the "Fastest way for me to get my project done and deployed." This calls to mind Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady’s assertion that "Convenience trumps…
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Some Kind of Hybrid Cloud
Our customers are asking for two interrelated items: federation to public clouds and a choice of public cloud APIs. It’s been very consistent. Customers are all deploying some kind of hybrid solution. Some times they start in public and want to move some workloads back to private, like Zynga. Some times they start in private…
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Integration is gonna be a problem for cloud
Enterprise software integration is hard and risky. Once you’ve invested in integrating your enterprise applications with one another (and/or with your partners’ applications), that integration becomes the #1 reason why you don’t want to change your applications. Or even upgrade them. That’s because the integration is an extension of the application being integrated. You can’t…
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Enterprise vs. Consumer Bid’ness
Workday was founded seven years ago by two guys with the best imaginable pedigrees, deep pockets, and networks to call on to get stuff done quickly. Duffield and Bhusri raised a reported $250 million to get the company humming and grew steadily to reach $134 million in annual sales as of last January. That’s impressive,…
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Storage Prices, 2000 to 2001
Extracted from Credit Suisse’s “The Need for Speed” (March 2011) and David Rosenthal’s S3 pricing history. See raw data as well.
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“Data growth / excessive data growth and IT budget constraints were the most significant problems…”
“Data growth / excessive data growth and IT budget constraints were the most significant problems cited by respondents of the survey. Data protection/ disaster recovery / business continuity were also cited as significant issues, as were IT mis-alignment, mobility and getting a handle on cloud computing.” – http://servicesangle.com/blog/2012/07/16/wikibon-finds-big-data-and-cloud-driving-it-transformation/
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Enterprise Software Explained, Oracle vs. ASF – DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #169
In this episode, we discuss what’s up with Oracle and the ASF, which leads us to also discuss that weird world of “enterprise software.” There’s probably more too. If you don’t like the video, you can get the audio by downloading it directly or subscribing to the feed.
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http://www.parleys.com/share.html#play/514892280364bc17fc56c04f Pragmatic Cloud Computing, or, Dealing with Morlocks, or, Agile Infrastructure – a talk I gave at Devoxx 2010, pleasantly early in cloud, DevOps, and such to be nice and squishy. See slides here as well. (Source: http://www.parleys.com/)
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http://www.parleys.com/share.html#play/514892280364bc17fc56c0b5 “What’s the point of DevOps,” a talk John Willis and I did at Devoxx 2010. Check out the slides here if you’re interested. (Source: http://www.parleys.com/)
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Cloud Closures and Server-side JavaScript Injection – DrunkAndRetired.com Episode #165
Charles asked me to think of some ways you’d use sandboxed JavaScript on the server side – I jump right in with some examples: To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3…
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My Work is infecting my dreams
Had a strange dream Monday night where I was in some largish, darkly-lit meeting room (almost like the business casual equivalent of an opium lounge conference room) with Brandon Whichard eating dried edamame. A continually morphing character of Steve Mills/Sam Palmisano came into the room. Brandon and he started talking about programming in Java, as…
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