Tag: bigco
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AWS’s private cloud stuff to day, plus VMware
Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy continuous-delivery service in 2015. AWS introduced the Snowball storage server companies could use to copy data and then ship it to the cloud in 2015. AWS added on-premises support to its EC2 Run Command tool for running shell scripts on many…
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Rediscovering the art of software development
Pivotal is at the epicenter of how enormous companies rediscover the art of software development. Source: Michael Dell Says Public Cloud is Important But It’s Not Everything
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Avoiding your rival’s cloud with multi-cloud capabilities
[O]ne well-publicized case in that vein, they said, was Home Depot directly working with Pivotal Software to introduce Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Google Cloud Platform. The home improvement retailer wanted to continue to use the popular development environment in the public cloud, but avoid giving business to Amazon’s largest profit-generating division. A Pivotal spokesperson told…
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American Airlines is a good profile of enterprise cloud buyer’s needs, hopes & dreams – Notebook
Application types: “The first result is that the airline will migrate to the IBM Cloud some of its critical applications, including the main website, its customer-facing mobile app and its global network of check-in kiosks. Other workloads and tools, such as the company’s Cargo customer website, also will be moved to the IBM Cloud.” Managed…
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Resetting belief systems
The 20th century was a graveyard for old, tested, and, yes, diverse belief systems and moral traditions that worked fairly well in steering lives for a long time despite their fatal flaws. Source: Trying to lead a valid life • DecodeDC
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Ansible driving millions in sales
“Ansible, a DevOps automation engine that’s often used with Kubernetes deployments, was big, responsible for six of the quarter’s transactions of over $1 million. This included one deal valued at over $5 million — “our largest deal ever for Ansible,” according to Shander.” Also, updates on RHEL, OpenStack, and OpenShift. And Oracle. Link
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Trumponomics: focusing on weird things with a small staff
From The Economist a few weeks back: The real difference is that Trumponomics (unlike, say, Reaganomics) is not an economic doctrine at all. It is best seen as a set of proposals put together by businessmen courtiers for their king. Mr Trump has listened to scores of executives, but there are barely any economists in…
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How’s HPE doing? Shrinking on purpose & otherwise
Many quotes of HPE’s CEO, Meg Whitman, explaining the state of HPE, 18 months after all the hijinks. Also, notes on some further cost reductions in the works: “We believe we can take out another $200 million to $300 million in cost in just the second half of this year.” Stuart Lauchlan’s conclusion: No-one can…
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Appian and tech IPO’s for horses
Appian raised just $48m as a private company, compared with $163m for Alteryx, $220m for Okta, $259m for MuleSoft and more than $1bn for Cloudera. In fact, all four of the unicorn IPOs raised more in a single round of private-market funding than Appian did in total VC funding.Not having done an IPO-sized funding in…
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Telcos becoming cloud providers doesn’t seem to work
Since the late 2000’s, one of the cloud strategy theories was that existing telcos and network providers could become public cloud providers. Many, if not all have tried and/or trying. Thus far, it’s been a rocky road: few synergies seem to be sleeping on the ground, ready to roused up to go fight the giants,…
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Canonical refocusing on IPO’ing, momentum in cloud-native – Highlights
flic.kr/p/nJR5oK There’s a few stories out about Canonical, likely centered around some PR campaign that they’re seeking to IPO at some time, shifting the company around appropriately. Here’s some highlights from the recent spate of news around Canonical. Testing the Red Hat Theory, competing for the cloud-native stack Why care? Aside from Canonical just being…
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Twitter’s video deals mean it’s giving up on business model innovation
So says Ben Thompson in his newsletter today: This is why Twitter’s increased focus on securing these video deals feels like such an admission of failure: the company is basically admitting that, despite the fact it contains some of the best content — given to it for free — in the world, it simply can’t…
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Red Hat OpenShift Momentum – Highlights
Brian Gracely of Red Hat (and formally an analyst who did some of the best “cloud-native”/cloud platform work early on) has a momentum post on Open Shift. Here’s my highlights: Sizing up revenue and deal-size: [Q3, FY 2017] Also of note, we closed our second OpenShift deal over $10 million and another OpenShift deal over…
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Cloud-native at Comcast, working with Pivotal – Highlights
I’m doing a podcast with Comcast in a few weeks, so I’ve been going over all their public talks on their cloud-native efforts. They’ve been working with Pivotal since around 2014 and are one of the more impressive customer cases with over a 1,000 applications now on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Here are some highlights from the…
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Reactions to Cloudera’s IPO, prospects – Notebook
There’s lots of opinions on Cloudera’s IPO today. Here’s some that I’ve collected in my notebook. Not valued high enough? Despite the share-price being up 20% at close, some negative commentary focuses on their valuation dropping from Intel’s funding round, e.g., from Brenon at 451: The chipmaker paid up for the privilege, putting a ‘quadra unicorn’ valuation…
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The news from Docker-land, plus, the money being fought over – Notebook
With DockerCon this week, there’s no end of Docker quotables and items. Here’s my collection General momentum Once landed in an account, Docker usage grows their CEO says: There has also been expansion within customers, with organizations that start with Docker expanding their usage on average by five times within six months Way back in…
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Picking off the slow-movers: $15bn for tech PE now sloshing around at Silverlake, more to come
Silver Lake plans to announce on Tuesday that it has closed its fifth buyout fund at $15 billion, one of the biggest ever dedicated to technology deals. That exceeds the $12.5 billion fund-raising target that the firm had previously aimed for and brings the firm’s total assets and committed capital to about $39 billion. They…
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The coming billions in updating bank’s COBOL stacks
Commonwealth Bank of Australia, for instance, replaced its core banking platform in 2012 with the help of Accenture and software company SAP SE. The job ultimately took five years and cost more than 1 billion Australian dollars ($749.9 million). Being conservative, multiply $500m across the top 20 banks, and you’ve got $10bn, using $749.8m directly,…
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That rumor about Oracle buying Accenture: nope!
The Register closes out it’s reporting on the rumor that Oracle was considering buying Accenture: …spokeswoman Deborah Hillinger has since denied that an acquisition will take place, claiming: “The Accenture rumour is completely untrue. Never even considered it.” Meanwhile, Dennis covers the many reasons why the deal wouldn’t make sense in the first place. The…
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