Tag: bigco
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Atlassian bundles ALM components around the popular git version control system (451 Report)
Atlassian released an ALM bundled centered around git recently. I wrote up a report on that release, git in broader terms, and of course profiling the current state of Atlassian. Here’s the 451 take: Git Essentials is a natural bundling move by Atlassian. The company has long been expert at tracking mainstream needs for software…
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Secondly, when evaluating new IT hardware and software assets for potential adoption, you need to institute a much stronger requirement for programmability and open APIs. Complete automation of your infrastructure requires programmatic access, and it’s simply insufficient to only have control via graphical interfaces. This isn’t just about provisioning and configuration support via such APIs,…
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Mirantis navigates changing OpenStack market, growth with 4.0 release (451 Report)
My team has a new report up on Mirantis, with updates on their momentum and an overview of what’s in their 4.0 OpenStack distro release. Here’s the 451 take, our brief opinion on the news: Mirantis reported more bookings in the last quarter of 2013 than all of 2012 – its growth by revenue, employees…
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Interest from new places in Power chips
It’d be loopy, in a fun way, to see a renewed interest in Power, esp. from “commodity hardware” cloud people. Interest from new places in Power chips
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For those who don’t have 3.5 hours, some highlights from #TheAppGap
As I mentioned, a few weeks back I was in a recorded “think tank” put on by Dell which was, largely, about the changing nature of IT and how CIOs could go about managing it. For those who don’t want to nuzzle up to a 3.5 hour recording (perhaps with a six pack and some…
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Profile of Icahn as a tech raider
Over the last decade, through a series of successful moves, Icahn has become the sole force behind Icahn Enterprises LP, a diversified holding company that puts him in command of roughly $24 billion in capital. “As essentially the wealthiest individual hedge-fund manager of all time, he is in an extremely rare position,” explains Brown. “Nobody…
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Nice piece on the hard work ahead for Microsoft & assets they have
From El Reg’s Gavin Clarke: Let’s begin by saying money was not the problem that needed solving: on that, the world’s largest software company is printing cash. … That means everything Nadella does now is about execution, not innovation. That makes Nadella’s story as CEO one of sales and expanded market share. We, 451, have…
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From a computer on every desktop to computers on everything, everywhere
These are the most important three chunks from Satya Nadella (Microsoft’s new CEO) memo: Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation. … Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world. … I believe over the next decade computing will become even more ubiquitous and intelligence…
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Moz builds its own private cloud
We spent part of 2012 and all of 2013 building a private cloud in Virginia, Washington, and mostly Texas. This was a big bet with over $4 million in capital lease obligations on the line, and the good news is that it’s starting to pay off. On a cash basis, we spent $6.2 million at…
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“Postmodern ERP”
A fun phrase from Gartner to label ERP systems that can’t be evolved fast enough to do what businesses want. See “anti- Agility.” “Postmodern ERP”
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More on the IBM x86 divestiture rationale
As usual, TPM is extensive, starting with: IBM is selling off the System x business, presumably because it is not profitable, but also because it is something it can sell while at the same time getting approximately 7,500 employees off its payrolls. Lenovo’s Peter Hortensius, who is president of the Think Business Group that sells…
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DrunkAndRetired.com #183 episode up, in video form. Here’s the audio only, and remember, you can subscribe to the podcast feed to get the audio versions of each episode downloaded automagically. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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Profile of SnapChat, and turning down billions
FORBES estimates that 50 million people currently use Snapchat. Median age: 18. Facebook, meanwhile, has admittedly has seen a decline among teenagers. Its average user is closer to 40. … “I can see why [SnapChat is] strategically valuable,” one leading venture capitalist tells FORBES. “But is it worth $3 billion? Not in any universe I’m…
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I’ve spent years puttering around at the “infrastructure layer” in IT: programming, systems management, cloud, all that gunk. From what I can tell much of the growth in IT is being driven by companies wanting to engage in “social” more. What is “social,” though? Indeed, that’s one of the things this podcast will try to…
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The $158B data-driven advertising market
I guess this why companies like Oracle and IBM keep buying advertising SaaSes and such: The report estimates that in 2012, the data-driven marketing economy added $156 billion in revenue to the U.S. economy and fueled more than 675,000 jobs. To put that statistic in perspective, that’s nearly half of total U.S. expenditures on marketing…
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IBM customizes OpenStack workload placement with Platform code
Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate server in which to place a new virtual machine based on policies crafted by the administrator. Criteria can include how much of each machine is already being used in terms of its CPU utilization, memory utilization and other factors. I’d expect to…
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Oracle’s cloud plans
“We intend to compete aggressively in the commodity infrastructure-as-a-service marketplace,” he said. “We’re not going to have that alone … our intention is to sell our customers IaaS and the same customer a highly differentiated platform-as-a-service which will let us get better margins and a highly differentiated suite of applications for the cloud.” Oracle’s cloud…
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Things are going the wrong direction in the server market
Continued soft demand for servers around the world resulted in a 3.7 percent decline in sales during the third quarter, according to IDC. A poor showing by IBM, which suffered a 19.4 percent decline in factory revenues during the quarter, enabled Hewlett-Packard to regain the title as the world’s top server maker. Cisco and the…
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Good #DellWorld summary and take from @benkepes
Good wrap-up so far: It’s a long list of news but I’m left wondering how substantive it will actually be for Dell as a company. I understand their new strategy of being a neutral player and offering a plethora of cloud services – but all these announcements run the risk of creating mass confusion for…
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What’s the plan at Dell? Questions for #DellWorld
Going into DellWorld, there are a handful of high-level questions – well, really, statements in the form of questions – that’d love to hear Dell’s reaction to. They all really revolved around “what’s the plan now?”: How is Dell going to run things differently now, day-to-day? From what I can tell (reading press releases), the…
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