Tag: Dell
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Sucking Air Through Their Teeth, 50/50 success/failure, and Dell’s $43B AI Server Quarter – Related to your interests, Friday
Also: the improbable life, four years working at AWS, an AI-SDLC panel debate. Spotted by Dan Bettinger in Austin. Related to your interests Most generative AI and custom model projects will be a bust: Gartner – ‘Analyst firm Gartner thinks at least half of all generative AI projects “will overrun their budgeted costs due to…
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AI Pees in the Pool, Permanent Indenture, and the Metric Fuck-Ton – Related to your interests, Monday
Also: does anyone actually use microwave food-buttons? Castanet handler. Related to your interests Platform Engineering in the Age of AI: Why Operational Complexity Is the New Bottleneck – “while coding is becoming cheaper and faster, operational complexity hasn’t disappeared” // Day 2 operations is always the bottleneck. // Also included is the current Syntasso/Kratix pitch.…
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Relative to your interests, Sunday
Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop? – AI-assisted coding is starting to eat its own tail: the same LLMs that write code are increasingly asked to review it, explain security decisions, and even override their own warnings. That creates recursive trust loops where “explain your reasoning” becomes an attack surface, and models…
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“We’re very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we’re announcing has an NPU in it—but what we’ve learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they’re not buying based on AI,” Terwilliger says bluntly. “In fact I think AI probably confuses them more…
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🤖 Michael Dell Joins Trump-Backed Consortium to Acquire TikTok US
President Donald Trump confirmed that Michael Dell is part of the team aiming to buy TikTok’s US operations, alongside Oracle’s Larry Ellison and possibly Lachlan Murdoch. The deal would make TikTok majority US-owned, with its algorithm and operations hosted on American infrastructure. Summary created by ChatGPT Source summarized: Trump says Michael Dell is part of…
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Dell ends hybrid work policy despite remote work pledge – “Overall, our results do not support the argument that managers impose these mandates to increase firm values,” the authors state in their paper. “Instead, these findings are consistent with managers using RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat for…
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Dude, you got a Dell, period! RIP XPS, Inspiron, Latitude, Precision – Dell has always been the “configure exactly what you want” PC dealer. Enterprises can then setup their own “standard configurations” to force on employees. Here, they’re trying to make opinionated laptops (like Apple).
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Dell’s stock falls on weak guidance, as more customers hold off for next-gen AI servers – Modeling the AI market tricky, they say: ‘Dell Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Clarke (pictured) told analysts on a conference call that growth of artificial intelligence server sales is likely to swing quite wildly from quarter to…
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Dell’s AI Server Business Now Bigger Than VMware Used To Be – Maybe private AI will really be a thing: ‘“We are still in the early innings, and our AI opportunity with tier 2 CSPs, enterprise, and emerging sovereign customers is immense,” Jeff Clarke, Dell’s chief operating officer, explained on the call with Wall Street…
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Microwaving Fish & Rice Cookers
Just links and waste book today. Wastebook “If it ain’t broke, don’t cloud it,” me, 2011. Follow and mute. “Dell’s employees, whom I believe are mostly adults and not small children, will be given colour-coded ratings to shame those who don’t come into the office enough.” Justin Warren’s newsletter, “The Crux #93.” “Largest companies most…
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“Little surprises around every corner, but nothing dangerous.”
Just links today. Relevant to your interests Two methods for designing better, more developer friendly platforms – Two ways to make good platform product management decisions: go to where the developers are, ask the developers // a little article by me. Platform Engineering: Orchestrating Applications, Platforms, and Infrastructure – A big overview of platform engineering.…
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🗂 Link: What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud
The answer is that Anthos is not really a technology, but more of a brand, a wrapper around Google’s cloud crown jewels, Kubernetes (K8s). And: In a nutshell, Anthos is the GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) deployed on-premises in a certified configuration (via hardware suppliers such as Dell and HPE), with an agent installed that maintains…
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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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Link: Forrester SVP: VMware Is One Of The ‘Exciting’ Stars Of IT Automation Era
‘O’Donnell called VMware and Pivotal the “crown jewels” of Dell’s $70 billion blockbuster acquisition of EMC in 2015. “It’s the future,” said O’Donnell. “It’s the software side of it. A lot of good stuff came with EMC but what VMware and Pivotal are doing is the future. It’s all about software.”’ Original source: Forrester SVP:…
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Link: Dell EMC’s Chad Sakac Takes New Role At Pivotal Software To Align Dell’s Cloud, Software, Hardware – Page: 1 | CRN
“The job is simple – helping make our aligned Dell Technologies developer platform come together, and make our answer on the ‘how’ (material = more important) of ‘digital transformation’ (buzzword = less important) reach more customers,” Sakac wrote. Original source: Dell EMC’s Chad Sakac Takes New Role At Pivotal Software To Align Dell’s Cloud, Software,…
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Link: Dell EMC Restructures Infrastructure Organizations To ‘Streamline’ Product Road Maps, Speed Go-To-Market
“In a major initiative to streamline Dell EMC’s infrastructure product road maps and go-to-market speed, the company is ending its Converged Platforms and Solution Division and moving its hyper-converged and converged infrastructure teams into Dell’s core server and storage business units.” Original source: Dell EMC Restructures Infrastructure Organizations To ‘Streamline’ Product Road Maps, Speed Go-To-Market
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[Coté Memo] Dell Cloud BOGO, M&A decisions by lunch, behind-the-scenes tech press shenanigans
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #20. Today we have 30 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. Stable! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsors Come check out cloud hijinks at 451’s HCTS conference…
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Dell no longer sponsoring engineering for Crowbar
[I]t is time for Dell to allow an independent open source community to take the reins of the Crowbar project. Dell “will stop sponsoring engineers to be committing and supervising the [Crowbar] project,” meaning they that the company is no longer funding developers to work on Crowbar. As Crowbar lead Rob Hirschfeld points out in…
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Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners
The channel business at Dell is about $20 billion per year. Dell said he can see that growing to $40 to $50 billion. Suggesting $60bn in “commercial” sales total for Dell? Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners
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We are also seeing big growth in the private cloud space. But in terms of building a public cloud to compete with partners we are not doing that at all. Michael Dell in an interview with CRN. See also the longer piece on CRN going over Dell’s cloud strategy.
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