Category: tech
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Creating a culture of change, continuous learning, & comfort
This post is an early draft of a chapter in my book, Monolithic Transformation. In banking, you don’t often get a clean slate like you would at some of the new tech companies. To transform banking, you not only need to be equipped with the latest technology skills, you also need to transform the culture…
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Rethinking Enterprise Architecture
In the cloud, DevOps, agile, whatever is hot and new era, the role of enterprise architects is rarely addressed. There’s probably plenty useful for them to do still. I’ve been trying to figure out what those things are recently. Also, see the slides, which are usually more up-to-date. There’s also a recording from DevOpsDays Charlotte.
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Big Ben spycraft
Each news programme opened with a live broadcast of Big Ben tolling the hour –the magical sound of freedom. Ingenious German physicists found a way to determine the weather conditions in London based on tiny differences in the tone of the broadcast ding-dongs. This information offered invaluable help to the Luftwaffe. When the British Secret…
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Multi-Cloud Begets Confusion, Calls for Automation
One reason is confusion over how enterprises define multi-cloud: Just over half of those polled defined it as including a combination of either public or private clouds along with on-premise infrastructure. (That is also a widely accepted definition of “hybrid clouds”.) Meanwhile, 23 percent of respondents said multi-cloud includes all three: public and private clouds…
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OpenStack Continues to Grow Both Public and Private Cloud Deployments
Four years ago, in October 2013, 451 Research reported that OpenStack cloud revenues were approximately $600 million in 2013. In April 2016, 451 Research reported that 2015 OpenStack ecosystem revenues came in at $1.2 billion, with a forecast to grow to $3.37 billion by 2018. Now in November 2017, 451 Research is out with it…
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Platforms are hard to sell, apps easier
Kevin Ichhpurani, executive vice president of global ecosystem and channels at GE Digital, and corporate officer of GE, told CRN during GE’s Minds and Machines conference in San Francisco last week that channel partners will have more success developing and selling applications around IoT, as opposed to grappling with the long and complex sales cycle…
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Telstra speeds up its release cycles with all the great cloud native stuff
According to Telstra, in some cases, its software development time has decreased from 6-8 months to 10-12 weeks through its work with Pivotal, More on how widespread it is: Telstra has moved 100 of its internal teams to Pivotal’s agile software development platform since partnering with the enterprise software company two years ago, with the…
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US Army is dead-set to be more agile in IT
“One of the problems that we’ve got — it’s not the problem but it’s a problem — you develop a piece of technology, we don’t have the resourcing flexibility to buy it.” That means the Army is forced to buy a technology available today it thinks it will need in 2025, when what it truly…
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Fidelity’s cloud native stacks
“The company builds its apps in Docker containers. Apps that need to stay on the company’s premises run on an OpenStack private cloud. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are used for public cloud. Fidelity uses a combination of cloud-native management tools like CloudFormation for AWS, Heat templates for OpenStack, and Terraforms, which runs across…
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Good, simple explanation of Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
SLOs are objectives that your business aspires to meet and intends to take action to defend; just remember, your SLOs are not your SLAs (service level agreements)! You should pick SLOs that represent the most critical aspects of the user experience. If you meet an SLO, your users and your business should be happy. Conversely,…
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All those eyeballs
The economics of attention markets focuses on three features. First it focuses on time as the key dimension of competition since it is what is being bought and sold. Second, it focuses on content since it plays a central role in acquiring time, embedding advertising messages, and operating efficient attention platforms. And third it focuses…
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Companies that loose billions have a hard time being successful
How all these unprofitable companies sustaining high valuations: bending reality today has three elements: a vision, fast growth, and financing. But: A few firms other than Amazon have defied the odds. Over the past 20 years Las Vegas Sands, a casino firm, Royal Caribbean, a cruise-line company, and Micron Technology, a chip-maker, each lost $1bn…
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ScienceLogic momentum
The company targets very large users, with 60% of its customers being MSPs, followed by enterprises at about 30%, and the rest coming from government agencies. It doesn’t report the number of direct customers, but its website boasts 47,000 organizations as users, many of them employing ScienceLogic via service providers. Average annual contract value for…
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Small experiments to solve big problems
Try to go beyond hand waving and opinions and find out what really is happening. A good way to start is to ask people to picture what their scenario would look like if everything was perfect. This puts them into a positive frame and helps focus on great outcomes. Once you’re sure you’re working on…
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Chef Launches Habitat Build, a Cloud-Native Application Packaging Service
Source: Chef Launches Habitat Build, a Cloud-Native Application Packaging Service
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What is Microsoft Doing?
Paying premium bucks to hire influencers for the big cloud migration wars. Source: What is Microsoft Doing?
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The Serverless Revolution Will Make Us All Developers
Consider the case of the connected cows. The grand unified, cloud/AI/IoT/serverless theory: That was the essence of the Build keynote: The cloud interprets IoT telemetry, in real time, with AI. And that AI can, in turn, instruct other IoT devices to do things based on its interpretation. Source: The Serverless Revolution Will Make Us All…
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Puppet’s new pipeline & kubernetes tools
The three new Puppet products based on Distelli’s technology are Puppet Pipelines for Apps, which automates key application development and delivery tasks; Puppet Pipelines for Containers, which enables users to build Docker images from a repository and deploy them to Kubernetes clusters; and Puppet Container Registry, which gives developers a comprehensive view of their Docker…
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Private cloud: avoiding an existential crisis
451 Research’s data points suggest that some workloads are likely to remain on private cloud regardless of any disruptor’s attack. And even with hungry cloud providers eyeing private workloads, growth is likely to continue across all cloud models, not just public cloud. Whole bunch of survey numbers tryin’ figure out how many workloads will stay…
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Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud
Oracle all over that public kubernetes service. Source: Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud
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