Tag: bigco
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🗂 The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT
> IBM used to be the bellwether, then it was HPE for a while when it was just called Hewlett Packard, and now it seems to be Dell Technologies. www.nextplatform.com/2019/03/0…
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🗂 Coaching CD change leaders
> Burke identified a few key architects who believed in the automated continuous delivery model and coached them to bring the vision to the rest of the team. “Through the influence of these leaders, the people who had been terrified to automate development were starting to get excited about it.” www.cio.com/article/2…
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🗂 VMware’s ongoing reinvention
Post server virtualization at VMware. www.networkworld.com/article/3…
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🗂 VMware offers pure open-source Kubernetes, no chaser
Following the usual, clear portfolio for open source infrastructure. www.zdnet.com/article/v…
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🗂 Geico Walks with Watson on AI Journey
Replacing human agents with AI, matching it to the right sales workflow: > “So we watched how this was going very closely,” he said. “We’d review transcripts from the early customer interactions, verbatim transcripts, to see how people are reacting in a conversation with Watson – because they didn’t know it was Watson.” > >…
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🗂 bol.com CIO interview
> The strength of our IT department is that IT is fully integrated in our organization. About 400 IT people or engineers work at bol.com, and they are organized as much as possible in about 70 small, multidisciplinary and self-managing teams. We see that that works best. These teams build features for our customers or…
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🗂 Kubernetes Culture Change
> Thus we’ve seen a bunch of Kubernetes services spring up, run by the same people who brought you all the other Infrastructures-as-a-Service. Google (from whence Kubernetes emerged originally) has Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon has Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), Microsoft has Azure Container Service (AKS), VMware has VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE), you…
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🗂 Software Chasms with Martin Casado
> The unending chasm describes a mode in which an infrastructure company must function as both a product company and a consultancy. Your consultancy is necessary to integrate your product into the enterprise, and ensure that your software actually gets used. But it reduces the appealing economics of a pure software company. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/01/2…
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🗂 Speak up more
> If you’re authentic and fully invested in making an impact while enhancing the experience of those around you, then you strengthen your case. Conversely, if you’re inauthentic or let yourself be silenced in the moments that matter, your case weakens every time you withdraw. www.strategy-business.com/blog/Good…
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🗂 “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”
> my company is based in Oakland. This is like being based in San Francisco, but with fewer microclimates. Rolling up to work in a company hoodie, jeans, a t-shirt from your last company, and a pair of Tevas is A-OK. But the further east you go, the more formal everyone’s business wear gets. Jeans…
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🗂 Oracle’s priorities for 2019? Repeat this handy mantra: Applications! Automation! Integration!
> Big Red, which has been struggling to gain foothold in the cloud market, is looking to make applications and integration the order of 2019 to help it win 50 per cent of the corporate apps market. www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/2…
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🗂 Focusing on Business Outcomes at Barclays: Overcoming the “Urgency Paradox”
Spreading lean software in an enterprise: Get stakeholders to think in terms of the end-to-end value stream, not just piece parts. Break down big programs and strategies into smaller parts, down to a month. Makes sense. www.infoq.com/news/2018…
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🗂 Microsoft signs cloud deal with Albertsons
Cleaning up that grocery store game. www.cnbc.com/2019/01/2…
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🗂 Multiple personality enterprise data
> There is also the cost of different people thinking about data differently because they are working with different platforms and not really speaking the same language as each other. I hear about this all the time from customers. They’ll have two people from their own organisation pitch up in a meeting with two different…
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🗂 When is it Time to Say Goodbye to Accenture, Deloitte, IBM or KPMG?
Short plan for getting rid of outsources. upperedge.com/system-in…
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🗂 Achieving Multi-Cloud Flexibility
Matt Baker’s concise history and path to the “multi-cloud” thought-technology: > “The definition and the usage of the term cloud has been hotly debated for the past decade, changing significantly over the years from access to computing resources over the internet to now reflecting an operating model designed to help IT. One that is agile…
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🗂 Switching Costs and Lock-In
“Lock-in” is about switching costs (a Simon Phipps put it long ago, “the freedom to leave”) and can thus be considered strategically, even financially, rather than numbing, stupefying FUD. aws.amazon.com/blogs/ent…
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🗂 Insiders say that Google’s new cloud boss is likely to make some very large acquisitions
Financial analysis of in wild with bizarre predictions. It’s hard to see synergies worth paying for in GCP owning Atlassian or ServiceNow. GCP is infrastructure. Plus, sounds like Google staff throw up resistance to buying old school companies: > In the months before IBM’s mega-deal, Greene formed a close relationship with the Red Hat team,…
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🗂 Open Source, Enterprise Software, and Free Lumber
> Please believe me when I say that I totally agree with Holger’s assertion that this process produces absolutely top quality software – and that the people doing the work are often among the very best in their respective corners of the software world. My main beef – which is why I use the term…
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🗂 Some high-profile wins at Microsoft of late, in retail
> The customer win is another example of retailers choosing cloud vendors that are not Amazon. Microsoft last week announced a retail-as-a-service (RaaS) partnership with Kroger, with the super market giant splitting its cloud investments between Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Walmart is also partnering with Microsoft, with the retailer and frequent Amazon foe signing…
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