Tag: bigco
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How GitHub runs itself
In that I work at BigCo that wants to transform, with lots of software in our future, I think a lot about this talk: From the 2012 Monktoberfest.
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Upcoming talk on Dell’s New Cloud Strategy
I’ll have a little cameo on a webinar tomorrow, speaking broadly to Dell’s cloud strategy. It’d a good chance to see what we’re up to now-a-days and how we think about it. This will be one of the first, public overviews of our cloud approach since we announced we were no longer building and running…
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Microsoft keeps fast following to the cloud
In addition to Azure, Microsoft is offering other cloud services through Intune, its Internet-based computer management service. Developed for small offices with limited IT help, Intune provides a set of automated updating and management functionality for keeping Windows-based business computers in operating order. A quiet success for Microsoft, Intune now is used by more than…
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How’s VCE been doin’?
$1B annual run rate, 1,000+ vBlocks sold (cumulative?), with $1.3B investment, founded 2011. More: How’s VCE been doin’?
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Spiceworks Segmentation Stats
three years ago 65-70 percent of Spiceworks users were from companies that had fewer than 100 employees. In the last 24 months, however, that has completely turned on its head, and now 75 percent of usage comes from companies with 100 employees or more. Specifically the two fastest growing segments are companies with 500-1,000 employees…
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QLIK Rising: As DATA Soars, BMO Cheers New Analytics Approach
Watch over the next 2 years as the Big 4 of BI (IBM, Oracle, SAP, and Microstragy) battle distuption from well funded upstarts. Folks like SAS snd Terradata will have to pick sides. More: QLIK Rising: As DATA Soars, BMO Cheers New Analytics Approach
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A peek inside AWS
The engineer says for $7,500 a month, Amazon will guarantee they will be on dedicated hardware, and not just have the IP addresses segmented through the VPC. Noisy neighbors are usually only a problem for larger customers though, he says. … He considers Google to be a serious threat to AWS, but not Azure. "Anyone…
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Verizon Enterprise M&A
Look at the genealogy here, starting with our first move, the acquisition of MCI back in 2006. That provided us this very expansive global IP backbone network. [Then we moved] on to Cybertrust Managed Security capabilities in 2007, and then further on with Terremark in 2011, then a company called CloudSwitch, then Hughes Telematics, as…
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SAP Takes It All to the Cloud
“We will do cloud-based ERP on a massive scale,” said Vishal Sikka, a member of SAP’s executive board and one of the people who oversaw the project. Of SAP’s regular product, he said, “At some point in the future, complex implementations should go away. All of our products are moving to HANA.” —SAP Takes It…
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Why developers are the king makers
Last week I was at on a Dell event panel representing Dell cloud think. Our moderator asked if developers are really in the driver seat – here’s the answer! What else would you expect from a RedMonk? ;> Also, Andy Rhode’s car fleet analogy is a good one for explaining bespoke IT vs. cloud IT.
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Building a Great Team (Dell buys Enstratius)
With the Enstratius acquisition, Dell is getting a group of people with deep influence in the community. Founder George Reese is an O’Reilly author and a cloud pioneer. He is supported by James Urquhart, Bernard Golden and John Willis, all recognized as influencers in the cloud community. —Alex Williams, TechCruch cloud strength.Welcome @botchagalupe @davidajbagley @georgereese…
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Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web
As IBM now cleverly says Mobile isn’t a Device, Its Data… We’re heading into a beautiful, bright, future where Data is Eating The World and solving tough problems… —Mobile, Informed Consent, and the Permission First Web
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DevOpsDays Austin
I was in and out of DevOpsDays Austin over the past few days. It’s always a fun, event, packed with plenty of old friends and folks to catch up. We gave away a Sputnik to a lucky winner, a fine fellow from Boston as I recall. Also, check out Barton’s video interview with Patrick Debois.
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The Secret to IaaS Success? Don’t Beat Amazon Web Services
I suspect the prevalent “slow follower” mentality within the public IaaS companies that are chasing AWS will continue. So too will the confusion about their inability to catch up with AWS, let alone pass them by. At the end of the day, this is about inventing new ways to provide better and more resilient computing…
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Report: IBM, Lenovo x86 server deal hits the skids
Buying IBM’s x86 server business is the quickest way for Lenovo to rocket up the rankings and become the number four server maker in the world, behind IBM and far behind Hewlett-Packard and Dell. The deal would make Lenovo the number three x86 server maker instantly. —Report: IBM, Lenovo x86 server deal hits the skids
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People will do more with Big Data than big companies can
The history of computing over the last 30 years is one of lurches forward every time individuals got the power to do what only big enterprises could do previously — and to do a much better job of it. —People will do more with Big Data than big companies can
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Microsoft adds Azure to its billion dollar a year club | Ars Technica
Amazon Web Services (AWS), by way of comparison, is estimated to have brought in $1.8 billion last year. —Microsoft adds Azure to its billion dollar a year club | Ars Technica
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Forrester: Middle-Aged Developers Driving Cloud Computing – ReadWrite
In other words, as with open source, these developers can’t be bothered with corporate bureaucracy. In an earlier Forrester survey, developers said the primary benefit of the cloud is that it’s the "Fastest way for me to get my project done and deployed." This calls to mind Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady’s assertion that "Convenience trumps…
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Sputnik launches as the Dell XPS 13 Laptop
Today is an exciting day for me: Dell is launching a product that I’ve helped put together and create along with a team of people across the company and, of course, the leader of the project, Barton George. We’ve been calling it Project Sputnik, and it’s got a real name now, “XPS 13 developer edition.”…
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