Tag: bigco
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🗂 AWS For Everyone: New clues emerge about Amazon’s secretive low-code/no-code project
> Earlier reports indicated that AWS has for some time been working on a cloud service that would allow people with little to no software development experience create simple business applications without having to call up the IT department, but it wasn’t clear what that entailed. www.geekwire.com/2019/aws-…
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🗂 AWS, MongoDB, and the Economic Realities of Open Source
> This leaves MongoDB Inc. not unlike the record companies after the advent of downloads: what they sold was not software but rather the tools that made that software usable, but those tools are increasingly obsolete as computing moves to the cloud. And now AWS is selling what enterprises really want. stratechery.com/2019/aws-…
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🗂 The Rise and Demise of RSS
> Unfortunately, syndication on the modern web still only happens through one of a very small number of channels, meaning that none of us “retain control over our online personae” the way that Werbach imagined we would. One reason this happened is garden-variety corporate rapaciousness—RSS, an open format, didn’t give technology companies the control over…
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🗂 Is this the future of retail? We checked out the new high-tech store from Microsoft and Kroger
You use an in-store device or you phone to scan items to buy: > The speed is most visible when a shopper calls up an item on her pre-determined shopping list and is guided to the exact aisle and shelf position of that item. As the shopper gets within range, of say, the jar of…
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🗂 community, you keep using that word
> Selling something for more than the cost is the only business model ever. Everything else is figuring out how to facilitate and optimize the transaction. Sell something people value has to be the foundational strategy. Community is had in any type of software, OSS, closed, aaS, or enterprise. Managing the sentiments of that community…
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🗂 COTS kills container cornucopia
> Where we are today, we have quite a bit of package software that we customize. And so we are paying license fee for a product that we can’t even get serviced on because it’s so customized. And so we have the worst of both situations and we have to work our way out of…
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🗂 You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle
Still swinging: > “Jeff Bezos gave the command, ‘I want to get off the Oracle database.’ And they’ve been working on this for a few years to try to get off Oracle Database, and get on to the Amazon databases. It’s taken Amazon, which is dedicated to doing this, several years, and they are not…
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🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds
> Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are developing at least 60 percent of their applications on cloud platform. That total is up sharply—13 percent—from the group’s last survey released in March. Demographics: > ClearPath Strategies conducted this wave of quantitative research as part of the Global Perception…
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🗂 Singapore Airlines to innovate at Silicon Valley startup speed with Pivotal
“Singapore Airlines (SIA) has collaborated with Pivotal Software to deliver what the two companies describe as innovative solutions while operating with the agility of a Silicon Valley startup.” www.enterpriseinnovation.net/article/s…
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VMware uses NSX for Istio
> The microservice architecture, which breaks complex applications into sets of single-purpose networked components, can be a challenge to manage, as each microservice must be instrumented, secured and locatable in a dynamically reconfiguring network. In addition, multiple copies of microservices may be run in parallel, to meet the demands of a growing demand. Their traffic…
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Link: The P Rules [for meetings]
Targeted at design, but fits for any BigCo meeting. Original source: The P Rules [for meetings]
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Rethinking Enterprise Architecture
In the cloud, DevOps, agile, whatever is hot and new era, the role of enterprise architects is rarely addressed. There’s probably plenty useful for them to do still. I’ve been trying to figure out what those things are recently. Also, see the slides, which are usually more up-to-date. There’s also a recording from DevOpsDays Charlotte.
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Cloud Native Works in Government — the IRS, US Air Force, and contractors
“We have already slashed the time needed to implement new ideas by 70 percent while avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars in costs.” M. Wes Haga, Chief of Mission Applications and Infrastructure Programs for Air Force Research Lab Slowly but surely, the US government is improving how they do software. Working at Pivotal, I’m lucky…
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Building trust with internal marketing, large and small
Most companies don’t realize the amount of work required to fully transform their approach to creating and caring for software. Scaling up the improvements learned and put into place by your initial teams relies on building trust and understanding in the overall organization. For whatever reason, most people in large organizations are resistant to change…
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So what exactly should IBM do, and have done?
Now that IBM has ended its revenue losing streak, we’re ready to stick a halo on it: There is no doubt, though, that there are signs of progress at IBM, which would not comment on its financial picture before the release of the earning report. So much attention is focused on the company’s top line…
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Multi-Cloud Begets Confusion, Calls for Automation
One reason is confusion over how enterprises define multi-cloud: Just over half of those polled defined it as including a combination of either public or private clouds along with on-premise infrastructure. (That is also a widely accepted definition of “hybrid clouds”.) Meanwhile, 23 percent of respondents said multi-cloud includes all three: public and private clouds…
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Big Ben spycraft
Each news programme opened with a live broadcast of Big Ben tolling the hour –the magical sound of freedom. Ingenious German physicists found a way to determine the weather conditions in London based on tiny differences in the tone of the broadcast ding-dongs. This information offered invaluable help to the Luftwaffe. When the British Secret…
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A more pragmatic morality
The capitalist–consumerist ethic is revolutionary in another respect. Most previous ethical systems presented people with a pretty tough deal. They were promised paradise, but only if they cultivated compassion and tolerance, overcame craving and anger, and restrained their selfish interests. This was too tough for most. The history of ethics is a sad tale of…
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We fear change – staff resistant to digital transformation
Introducing new technology in the workplace is making the majority of people – three in five – feel anxious while the same number have concerns over whether their job is safe when it comes to tasks being automated. And half of staff express such fears about change when businesses introduce any “digital transformation” projects, the…
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Platforms are hard to sell, apps easier
Kevin Ichhpurani, executive vice president of global ecosystem and channels at GE Digital, and corporate officer of GE, told CRN during GE’s Minds and Machines conference in San Francisco last week that channel partners will have more success developing and selling applications around IoT, as opposed to grappling with the long and complex sales cycle…
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