Tag: bigco
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Solving for the Dr. No problem with cloud
This is the common staffing benefit of new technologies: As such, Redmond says, the result is not that IT becomes redundant; it becomes more strategically important than ever. And, significantly, it goes from being a department that normally says “no” to user requests to one that can start saying “yes.” Even comparatively minor things, such…
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HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef
Also, [see this other story on the topic](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DataCenterKnowledge/~3/KIgB7EGoc6A/). HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef
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How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard – Network World
How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard – Network World
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Cisco not looking at Rackspace, doesn’t fit M&A criteria
“We don’t move into a market unless we think we have a realistic chance of gaining 40% market share with sustainable differentiation,” Chambers said at the Cisco Live conference when asked if the company needs to acquire an established cloud provider like Rackspace to succeed in cloud services. “And we try not to move into…
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Dell no longer sponsoring engineering for Crowbar
[I]t is time for Dell to allow an independent open source community to take the reins of the Crowbar project. Dell “will stop sponsoring engineers to be committing and supervising the [Crowbar] project,” meaning they that the company is no longer funding developers to work on Crowbar. As Crowbar lead Rob Hirschfeld points out in…
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“Rackspace simply cannot play in that league”
Good ol’ TPM! Also: Rackspace is also the largest publicly traded cloud and hosting provider, and unlike its rivals, its numbers are right out there. No one knows for sure what revenues and profits AWS, Microsoft, and Google are getting from their cloud and hosting businesses, and ditto for smaller players and telcos who also…
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Reflections on the OpenStack Atlanta summit
Lydia at Gartner summarizes the motivations of OpenStack vendors, touching on what it means for “lock-in”: Customers should expect to be no less locked into an OpenStack-based vendor/provider than they would into any other CMP or cloud IaaS provider. Reflections on the OpenStack Atlanta summit
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Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager
Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager
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Goodbye HANA daddy, assorted cloud bods: SAP gets corporate
Goodbye HANA daddy, assorted cloud bods: SAP gets corporate
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Dealing with copyrighted APIs
“I am not a lawyer, but from a developer perspective, the idea of copyrighted APIs does nothing but introduce friction and uncertainty into the very integration efforts the developers use APIs to accomplish,” said Jeffrey Hammond, a vice president at Forrester Research. “Devs will now need to worry about the potential for API lock-in via…
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ERP is moving to SaaS all the sudden
The proportion of enterprises that have replaced or plan to replace existing ERP systems with SaaS has doubled from 12 to 24 percent in the past year, according to research published this week by industry analyst firm Forrester. In addition, the numbers planning to use SaaS alongside on-premise ERP — for example in ‘two-tier’ ERP…
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Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners
The channel business at Dell is about $20 billion per year. Dell said he can see that growing to $40 to $50 billion. Suggesting $60bn in “commercial” sales total for Dell? Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners
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Box strikes deal with GE to become the default file-sharing service of its 300,000+ employees
Box strikes deal with GE to become the default file-sharing service of its 300,000+ employees
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Enterprise grade means you’ll run it a long time
I’m always looking for definitions of “enterprise grade,” and this is a good contextual point for that: The noise in the consumer market would have us believe that software is almost disposable. Something doesn’t work – junk it. Users don’t like XYZ software – replace it. Fail fast, fail often – that’s the road to…
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SysTrack 7.0 continues Lakeside’s ‘big-data’ push in end-user management
My report on Lakeside Software’s new release is up. SysTrack is one of the veteran tools used in the end-user device management space and, if it can start adding in more mobile and tablet functionality, is well setup to profit from the churn in that area helping companies asses and then plan for how to…
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The IT growth is from new shit, IDC says
According to IDC, the 5 percent IT growth it sees for 2014 is comprised of two elements: Stagnant legacy infrastructure growth (0.7 percent) and a high third-platform infrastructure growth (15 percent). Just to bring the point home, IDC asserts that a full 29 percent of 2014 IT spending and 89 percent of all IT growth…
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Under Development- new podcast on software development
I have a new podcast up that’s on the ongoing topic of software development, big and small, tools and practices, news and theory, old and new. I’m co-hosting it with Bill Higgins. I’ve talked with Bill Higgins for many years, and occasionally we’ve done a podcast episode together. He was in town a few weeks…
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Nice overview of SolidFire
A good overview of what the software-heavy enterprise storage company does, including this assessment on market segment targeting: SolidFire is very honest about not being built for the mid-market, as it feels that most of the middle of the market is headed toward cloud providers anyhow. Some may consider this a weakness, but I consider…
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In the M&A world, you kiss a lot of frogs
I like this post on what filling up the deal-flow pipeline for VCs looks like. For example, a good bozo bit heuristic: One of the reasons that a meeting doesn’t go well is that the founding team will say they expect $50 million in revenue in 5 years, but they have difficulty articulating how they’ll…
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