Tag: bigco
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The more flexible SOA
“But microservices want to bring you into tomorrow,” says Winterberg. “Microservices add a bit to the category concept, defining a service over all application layers, including the UI. So people already doing SOA may gain a kind of new freedom by adopting microservice ideas.” That freedom includes technology independence and an alternative to aging technologies,…
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Is OpenStack a Success?
From the data I have seen the number of production OpenStack deployments worldwide in 2014 was on the order of hundreds – not thousands or tens of thousands. Some criteria for “should I use OpenStack” as well. Is OpenStack a Success?
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The growth story was, like Amazon, all about the cloud. Ben Thompson on his latest newsletter, on Microsoft’s earnings.
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The flywheel go-to-market model
The Flywheel Model differs from the Traditional Model in one fundamental regard. The enterprise sales team is exclusively inbound. They are explicitly denied the option of seeking business outside the customer base, and must gin up business from only existing customers. The enterprise sales team is an up-sell and cross-sell team. In fact, so is…
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Survey shows companies want to use IT to drive growth
“The second-most-important category of business priority for 2015 and 2016 is technology related. This is the highest position we have ever seen for technology in this survey and it’s our firm belief that CEOs are more focused on this area than at any time since 1999,” said Mr. Raskino. “When we examine the subtext of…
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Team work bringing down the average
The workers were told, essentially, that they were to be rewarded for collective achievement rather than individually. So instead of maximizing individual satisfaction, which often comes through competition with other people, employees considered their impact on colleagues. The theory, which plays out in the results, is that with relative rankings, top performers reduce their effort…
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This is the state of IT everywhere
Interesting inquiry with internal IT dept of a major cloud provider that wants to use AWS, and not their own company’s cloud service. Old ways – and here, new! – of doing service management are just not cutting it. This is the state of IT everywhere
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vCloud Air Momentum
Also in 18 months, Fathers said, vCloud Air will have around 100,000 customers, up from the current “thousands”. Winning more customers will come down to increased interest in hybrid cloud, but also the addition of the NSX network virtualisation product to vCloud Air. vCloud Air Momentum
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How the pull nature of open source changes your partner strategy
In answering what Red Hat has to offer partners, CEO Jim Whitehurst says: So when we talk about containers, we talk about, here’s how, if a customer wants to implement containers, you can offer solutions to help them do that. And when we want to talk about OpenStack, well, here’s how you can offer an…
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More on HP’s cloud re-positioning, AWS financials
More on HP’s cloud re-positioning: “HP is not leaving the public cloud market,“ said HP in a statement to CRN that mirrors a statement given earlier this week to VentureBeat. “We run the largest OpenStack technology-based public cloud out there. This has to do with not competing head-to-head with the big public cloud players.” They’re…
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“Managed cloud” and MSP market-sizing
Global cloud and data center-delivered managed network services doubled in size from $1,384 million in 2009 to $2,606 million in 2015, according to a report from Statista, a New York City research firm. While those seem like impressive growth numbers, the MSP Alliance has estimated managed services revenue generated by cloud and managed service providers…
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Multi-cloud
“At least half of the calls I take are clients that are either actively planning or are already actively deploying a multi-provider strategy,” said Mindy Cancila, an analyst with Gartner, Inc. based in Stamford, Conn. “I believe most organizations are going to end up with more than one public cloud provider, whether they realize it…
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Docker: IaaS or PaaS? Reflections on DockerCon EU (451 Research)
As mentioned in my newsletter recently, I typed up a think piece on Docker (the company and the emerging ecosystem after it’s EU conference earlier this month. 451 clients can read it behind the paywall, but here’s the 451 Take: The ecosystem around the Docker container technology is in the process of figuring out Docker’s…
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As we have grown and evolved, we’ve realized that the best salespeople don’t have to necessarily be trained in retail. They just need to be trained in life. http://fortune.com/2014/12/26/container-store-sharon-tindell/
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“Hybrid cloud ROI isn’t there, and the complexity is huge.”
From Steven Sinofsky: As an enterprise, the pragmatic thing to do is go public cloud and operate existing infrastructure as legacy, without trying to sprinkle cloud on it or spend energy trying to deeply integrate with a cloud solution. The transition to client-server, GUI or Web all provide ample evidence in failed bridge solutions, a…
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Coté Memo #057: Is Cloud Foundry a Thing, EU Coffee, and developers
Tech & Work World The Cloud is Developers It’s an exaggeration, but for the most part “cloud” is all about supporting developers. What I mean by this is that it’s not exactly the best way to run packaged applications: there’s VMware, Linux, etc. for that it seems. When I was working on cloud strategy at…
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The first wave of IBM/Apple enterprise iOS apps
A good looking list from the press release: Plan Flight (Travel and Transportation) addresses the major expense of all airlines — fuel — permitting pilots to view flight schedules, flight plans, and crew manifests ahead of time, report issues in-flight to ground crews, and make more informed decisions about discretionary fuel. Passenger+ (Travel and Transportation)…
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Good journalism takes money. If you are made to pay, it’s to serve you better and please you
The advertisements will be a little bigger, too, and my advice is for you not to complain, but to engage with our sponsors, who pay the bills around this joint and who make our strategic, tactical, and technical material possible. I’m a fan of everything TPM writes, he’s excellent and his coverage is always deep…
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Coté Memo #056: the $110,000 a year blogger, investing in barf bags
Tech & Work World Quick Hits Puppet Labs pushes ahead with more staff, broader enterprise DevOps deployments – a recent 451 Research report from Jay Lyman on my team, now free for everyone. Software Defined Talk #17: DevOps is the New Agile – another fine episode of Software Defined Talk. Be sure to check out…
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Coté Memo #055: It’s cold in Toronto
Follow-up I mentioned the Software Defined Talk recording last week, the episode is up for those who were waiting. At DockerCon EU – turns out I’ll be at the Amsterdam DocerCon the first week of Dec, just for a day and half, though. If you’re there, it’d be fun to meetup. I’ll have been traveling…
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