Tag: bigco
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Pivotal shows good momentum in helping build ‘programmable businesses’ (451 Report)
I wrote a brief update on Pivotal recently, the full report is available for clients. Here’s the 451 Take: Pivotal’s connection to the so-called ‘EMC Federation’ gives it an expansive portfolio, but we believe that Pivotal’s core message reduces to, “Hello, Global 2000 enterprises. The middleware stacks you use to build and run your enterprise…
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How to write an executive strategy memo
When you’re asked to write an executive memo, you need (to learn how) to be concise and to the point. When I was at Dell, working in strategy, I wrote many “executive memos.” One of the senior executives, including Michael, had a question about entering a market, buying a company, etc. and wanted our input…
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Dell’s end-user device management portfolio, KACE, has grown revenue 5x since acquisition (451 Report)
I checked in with Dell’s end-user device management folks, KACE, recently and wrote up a report. Patching and all that isn’t exactly thrilling (but, as they say, necessary), however, it’s interesting to see the momentum the acquisition has had since 2010. Because we’d been collecting revenue from KACE over the years (thanks to Dennis), we…
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[Coté Memo #019] Selling DevOps, the WTF on industry analysts, champaign over health food
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #19. Today we have 30 subscribers, so we’re +1. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference Oct…
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That IBM/CSC partnership
The new offerings bring IBM solutions around SoftLayer Infrastructure-as-a-Service and BlueMix to CSC customers, including integrating them with the CSC ServiceMesh Agility Platform. The agreement will bring ServiceMesh Agility Platform to the IBM Cloud Marketplace. More: CSC said the IBM alliance will help the company grab a piece of Gartner’s predicted $210 billion market for…
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How Dell segments out the server market
As detailed by Dell’s Forrest Norrod: We typically think in big animal terms. The true hyperscale market is a very small set of customers, maybe the top seven to ten players. The scale-out customers sit below these, and include Web tech, HPC, and the large financial institutions for their quant farms. The core enterprise comes…
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Don’t confuse influencers with check-signers
Tracking the exact mechanics of bottoms-up shifts in IT is as hard as tracking “real cloud” spend, if not harder: I would listen to developers, but more likely an architect or head of development than allow the grass roots to start buying and using anything they wanted. I am not naive enough to believe that…
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[CotéMemo #016] Developer relations, HP & Cisco’s cloud, Google Fiber, Twitter Analytics, Mesosphere
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #16. Today we have 25 subscribers, so we’re +3. THANKS! (Keep telling your friends!) I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsors I’ll be at speaking at…
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“When have you crushed days into minutes for me lately, nerd?!”
Dennis reports on a refer SAP user group survey which points to difficult up-take for HANA. It seems like the primary blocker is coming up with justifiable reasons to buy and use the thing, a “business case,” as the kids say. On the other hand, the actual performance of the thing seem to be real,…
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Cisco’s 19 years of mega-growth
Since being tapped to lead Cisco in 1995, Chambers has grown the company from a $2.2 billion hardware manufacturer to a $48.6 billion network hardware, software, security and services powerhouse that’s more bullish than ever on becoming the world’s No. 1 IT company. Cisco had 3,827 employees when Chambers was appointed CEO. Today, there are…
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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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Serena Dimensions CM starts bringing devops to its enterprise customers (451 Report)
I had a briefing with Serena a short while ago around the new release of their ALM product Dimensions. They’re interesting to talk with because of their conservative customer base: so it’s a good way to track mainstream adoption of emerging developer practices. Things seem to be moving along nicely there. Since changing PE hands,…
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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
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Amazon 2014Q2 marginalia
I took a look at Amazon’s recent earnings call transcript. Not as details-rich as CA’s, and more widely covered, but some little bits and pieces here. See the stand-alone HTML file in my dropbox share, and the raw markdown file if you prefer that. I’m still looking for a better way to render there if…
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[Coté Memo #7] Who wants to do DevOps, “The Death of AWS” headlines, Boyhood
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #7. Today we have 21 subscribers, so we’re +1 again. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor 451 Research, is having it’s big cloud conferences this…
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Microsoft estimates it has 14% device share
At it partner conference, Microsoft’s Kevin Turner portrays the company as having 14% device (PC, smartphone, tablets) share: In a world of 14 per cent device share, we have a new mindset: you have to have a challenger mindset. Everyone has to have a challenger mindset. Pretty astonishing if that’s the case, or near it.…
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We would spend weeks rewriting systems, an eternity in startup-time, just because a cloud server with 8 gigabytes of RAM was falling over. Putting Teeth in Our Public Cloud
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Recent podcasts
In case you haven’t noticed, I have a few new podcasts that have been chugging along nicely. If you like my past work at DrunkAndRetired (OK, it’s not officially “done,” but we sure as shit don’t do much there anymore) you’ll like these two: Under Development – each week Bill Higgins and I talk about…
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Google IO people, London edition
From Tim Anderson on the London IO viewing party: I found the demographics different than most IT events I attend: a younger crowd, and plenty of start-ups and very small businesses, not at all enterprisey (is that a word?) That’s, as always, the thing to track: is Google changing to get into the enterprise, or…
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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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