Tag: bigco
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The cost of old corporate code
[A]pplication development and maintenance eats up 34 percent of the total IT budget and that by getting rid of legacy applications, simplifying complex architectures, and ceasing outdated approaches to IT staffing, companies can cut those application development and maintenance costs in half. The cost of old corporate code
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HFT tech
To illustrate this point during the opening keynote, George Kledaras, CEO of FIX Flyer, which creates algorithmic trading platforms, talked about how impossible it is for people to keep up and used the day when the statements from the Federal Open Markets Committee of the US Federal Reserve Bank are put out. The entire cycle,…
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BMC streamlines job management to address the devops need for speed (451 Reports)
My report on BMC’s Control-M’s recent updates catering to developer is now up, for 451 clients. The 451 Takes is below: BMC’s proposition to speed up the batch job process cycle squares with what we tend to see in the mainstream wilds of IT. Cloud and devops are creeping into these shops at a steady…
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Surprise, surprise: New survey shows public cloud adoption way, way up
Pretty good stuff in there. It’s really dodgy figuring out what people are doing in/with cloud at this point, and on which side of the firewall, so every data point and anecdote helps. Surprise, surprise: New survey shows public cloud adoption way, way up
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Random Chromebooks shipments estimate
I’m guessing from the article it’s from Gartner…or maybe this ABI Research reference: Google’s Chromebooks – manufactured by Samsung, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and Acer – topped 2.1 million unit sales in 2013 and are expected to climb to 11 million annually by 2019. This surge matches the interest we saw in a joint study with Spiceworks.…
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Microsoft goes bonkers for cross-platform
With these changes Microsoft has shifted its emphasis from Windows developers building Windows apps via Windows Azure to all developers building all apps via Microsoft Azure – an important distinction and one likely to grow more apparent over the coming months. It sounds like Build is a nice conference with some dramatic changes from previous…
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AWS opens its desktop as a service to the market, joins the growing DaaS fray (451 Reports)
Our report on Amazon WorkSpaces is up. The full report is available for 451 research clients, but here’s the 451 Take. When it comes to making things cheap, few companies have the zeal and credibility of Amazon. While new, mostly non-Microsoft devices are rapidly changing and fragmenting the end-user device market, there’s still a palpable…
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IT ops startup Boundary raises $22m C round to expand R&D, sales and marketing (451 Reports)
I put up a short, “analyst note” on Boundary’s funding today, which 451 clients can read in full. Tracking from our last report on them in November 2013, they’ve increased both customer count and average deal size, so good for them. I always found it hard to find the market sizing for “systems management delivered…
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ING infects Capital One with Agile
When Capital One started to roll out agile development in 2011, Wolfs said it amounted to just one percent of software that was delivered. Today, 85 percent of software is delivered by the agile method. With agile, Capital One now also releases approximately 400 product releases a month, has cut delivery times to three to…
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Your address book is worth ~$45, your medical records ~£12,000
I’m envisioning one of those butcher charts with all the cuts of meat, except it’s a human and all their social info and personal data/records: If Facebook values your phone book at $42, or £25.24 today, what do you think your lifelong medical record is worth? The health industry is a colossal business, much bigger…
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Codenvy delivers a code- and build-developer experience through the browser (451 Report)
My report on the cloud ALM tool Codenvy is up, for 451 Research clients. You can also sign up for a trial if you want to take a peek behind the paywall. Here’s the 451 take: The idea of a Web-based IDE comes into vogue almost predictably every three to four years, just like all-meat…
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You can expect us to make sure we drive Office 365 everywhere – Web, all phones, all tablets, PCs. That’s our real commitment to Office 365. Satya Nadella unveiling Office on the iPad. Check out our coverage of Satya’s ascension to CEO as well.
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Hoarding and trading information as currency in the enterprise
I don’t know about counterintuitive, but there was a great piece of insight that Sam Zell, the real estate mogul from Chicago, said to me that really made me rethink what a big organization is really about. He said, as an entrepreneur, [he needs] as much information as possible. In a big corporation, people use…
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“Leveraging OpenStack”
In the context of covering Cisco’s “InterCloud” announcement, the following is quoted: The Cisco Intercloud will be built upon industry-leading Cisco cloud technologies and leverage OpenStack for its open standards-based global infrastructure. We’ll support any workload, on any hypervisor and interoperate with any cloud. You see that notion frequently now-a-days, the idea of OpenStack being…
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A nice illustration of the problem shifting your customer base from on-premises to public cloud
Buried in this piece on Cisco doing some public cloud stuff is this little description about how the shift to public cloud creates a strategic threat to incumbent vendors: Cloud computing represented an interesting opportunity to equipment companies like Cisco, as it aggregated the market down to fewer buyers. There are approximately 1,500 to 2,000…
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One of the better pieces on what IBM has in store for itself, strategically
The truth is, IBM has little choice but to focus on cloud infrastructure and applications and big data. IBM does not sell an X86 operating system, as do Microsoft and Red Hat do, although it does have WebSphere middleware and DB2 databases that some enterprise customers want. Moreover, the current strategy of exiting the commodity…
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Pitching Box
For me, it was a bunch of numbers. You can convince a bunch of VCs with numbers. The churn was low. The revenue was up. Talking to the customers, the sentiment was that this could grow within their companies. There was a huge market with cloud-based file sharing with both consumers but also enterprises. And,…
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DigitalOcean gets $37.2m from a16z, with ~100k customers
Some pundits may argue that it is also going up against Amazon Web Services, but this is not the case: at around 5,000 Intel-powered Dell and SuperMicro servers the company fields around five percent of Rackspace’s fleet, and at most one per cent of Amazon’s. … This funding caps off a period of torrential growth…
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Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM
Kay said that on average, partners that have made the transition to the cloud early with IBM are seeing accelerated revenue growth of 2.5 times the average with the cloud In theory, the cloud abhors middleman. We’ll see. Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM
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Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business
Office 365 is already leading the charge, with a 500 percent increase in active online users over the past year and already a $1.5 billion-a-year business, making it the fastest growing commercial product in Microsoft’s history (an accolade previously held by Sharepoint). From over at Diginomica. Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business
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