Tag: bigco
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“They don’t even come with APIs.”
“It is clear that networking has for a very long time been a black box. They don’t even come with APIs,” he explains. “This is the history that forced us to really look at way networks are laid out and build [devices] and do [it] ourselves. Also the cost – everything else in our data…
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451 Research: Boundary wants to be your MOM – Boundary
Most of what I write professionally is behind a paywall now, so it’s fun when something gets unleashed. One of our clients, Boundary, re-printed a piece on them I wrote recently, which provides an update and overview of their business, and speaks to their new VPC-driven private cloud offering. Here’s an excerpt of the customers…
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The plight of the DBA – Press Pass
What’s a DBA to do in a cloud world where platform as a service and PaaS-like automation seemingly removes much of the need to constantly car for pet databases? Well, there’s still troves of existing databases left and, really, things aren’t that perfect in cloud-land. I spoke with Klint Finley on this topic last week…
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More on BMC’s private plans
We’re all curious what Dell and BMC are going to do now that they’re private. I hope a lot of “crazy” stuff, myself, otherwise: why go private? Here are some comments from BMC’s VP Asia Pacific, Chip Salyards: “With a publically traded company you are on these 90 day cycles so you can’t change from…
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The third stage of Vineet’s transformation revolves around the value zone – the part of any business where true customer value is created. In a services organisation like HCL was this in HR? Was this in the financial modelling team? Was this in the manager’s office? No, for HCL the true customer value was created…
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The link between freedom and money, data edition
Commercial services—including those used by Fortune 500 companies—outsourced to India typically consist of information technology outsourcing or business process outsourcing. For example, IBM likely employs the majority of its employees in India, where they process bank records, perform financial analyses, and write software. Chinese workers can no doubt handle these tasks, but given the reports…
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Touch Screen Precisions
That looks pretty cool: New Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation.
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People seem to be buying Chromebooks
Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300, according to NPD Group Inc. The devices, which have a full keyboard and get regular software updates from Google, are the fastest-growing part of the PC industry based on price,…
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Open Web Crew Blindsided
Then Facebook began to grow and grow. I remember the first time someone was showing me Facebook—it was Tantek of all people—I remember asking “But what is it for?” After all, Flickr was for photos, Delicious was for links, Dopplr was for travel. Facebook was for …everything …and nothing. I just didn’t get it. It…
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Corporate Breakfast
One of the odd things starting at Dell was that they have a cafeteria in each building. I’ve never worked at a place big enough for that. Anyhow, they do pretty well with omelettes and refried beans. Slop in some pico de gallo and salsa, and you’ve got a hot sloppy mess only rivaled by…
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Two very different estimates of cloud email usage and forecasts
A while back I posted a quick quote from recent Gartner prognosticating about cloud email. The up-shot was that right now, it’s just about 8% for all types of companies, globally (except India and China for some reason). Someone from SpiceWorks left a comment that arecent survey of theirs indicated something much different, at least…
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No one got fired for buying IBM cloud
So what is the impact of IBM’s acquisition of SoftLayer? This analyst believes this acquisition may be a fundamental signal to competitors that the old world of outsourcing is fading and that the only way to the future is delivery of services via an “IT” utility called the cloud. Just consider that 80% of U.S. buyers indicate…
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How’s Microsoft doing with Yammer?
If we look at it from Yammer’s perspective, it’s been a good year. Being part of the Microsoft family has helped it grow its total user base by 60% in the last 12 months to almost 8 million users, and its number of paid networks has grown by 200%. Plus, Yammer’s 2012 full year sales…
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Heterogenous Systems Management
Increasingly, PC makers are experimenting with Android, given that Microsoft’s Windows 8 devices have struggled to attract consumers, according to analysts. Google promotes Android as a free and open operating system, and many tech companies are already relying on the OS to build their smartphone and tablet products. PC makers will come out with more…
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People stuck in the email backwoods
Only 8% of office system users employ cloud-hosted email and desktop applications, according to analyst company Gartner Gartner expects that 10% of enterprise email inboxes will be hosted in the cloud by the end of 2014. …adoption will accelerate from the first half to 2015, reaching 33% penetartiong in 2017 and 60% by 2022 –Just…
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OpenStack vs. Amazon
The differentiation [between Amazon and OpenStack] is that OpenStack technology is driving an initiative, throughout the world, which can be adopted and molded in a non-proprietary way. If you, as a user, want to integrate some proprietary technology into OpenStack, you can do that very easily. It’s basically an open system. The companies and brand…
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Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract
Looks like that $600m AWS contract with the CIA is real, if not closed. Also of note: Amazon is bidding for building a private cloud – I think…? – more or less. More: Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract
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Planning is fine, but generally over-rated
He said he never sought lot of advice because if he had gone and asked people what he was about to do and work, they would have told him it wouldn’t work and dissuaded him from taking up the venture. “I would experiment experiment, test, go fast, fail fast. Planning is fine but generally over-rated,”…
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https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and M&A, so speaking publically was not really in the job description. Nonetheless, I pitched in with my marketing friends from time-to-time, as in this talk going over cloud as Dell saw it and advice for users. (Source: https://www.brighttalk.com/)
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Lazy robots, or, Is cloud meeting your expectations?
As I mentioned earlier, Roy and and I had a webinar today about Dell’s cloud portfolio and strategies. Here’s a recording of it, enjoy. And, there’s also one on DevOps, from Barton and Willis.
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