Tag: enterprise
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Six to eight weeks, down to two days – How Tanzu Product Management Uses AI
I talked with Chris McClanahan and Purnima Padmanabhan about how the Tanzu product management team actually put AI to work. Ideation went from six to eight weeks to a couple of days, and almost none of what got them there was tooling. It was org chart work: one pod instead of hand-offs, onboarding the AI…
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AI Coding Costs Overtake Salaries, Broadcom’s Intelligence Processor, and sovereign cloud – Related to your interests, Thursday
Defeat AI-Powered Threats with VMware Tanzu Spring Here’s the panel I hosted on how the Spring project is adapting to AI-powered threats. We covered the volume spike in Spring security reports, the kinds of vulnerabilities the models are good at finding, chained “narrative” attacks, the three-bucket fix/fork/ditch triage for open source deps, the clean-room rebuild…
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Implicit Rules, Paste Special, and Grand Theft Carp – Related to your interests, Sunday
Also: the perfect length for a list, post-Christian kitsch, and the forth R. ICYMI Original content published since last time. Related to your interests AI Summaries I wanted to read these, but I didn’t make the time, so I asked the robot to summarize them.
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Enterprise self-harm: cleaning the data is the hard part
I think the critical part of it was really realizing that we had built the original product presupposing that our customers had data integrated, that we could focus on the analytics that came subsequent to having your data integrated. I feel like that founding trauma was realizing that actually everyone claims that their data is…
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Always taste the digital transformation while you’re making it
At a large enterprise I recently worked with, the board asked the Chief Digital Transformation Officer to develop an AI adoption strategy to drive innovation, growth, and cost efficiency. His consultant of choice conducted stakeholder interviews and proposed a three-phase program scheduled to last 3.5 years: Phase 1: Fix digital basics and address the leftover…
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It’s real, enterprises just need to do the CISO work and SRE work
After using Claude more and more for task in my personal life, my current zinger analyst take on the Squawk Box would be: “OpenAI talks about business strategy, Anthropic just does it.” It’s really getting close to a sci-fi personal assistant. It takes A LOT of work to get your rig (or “harness”) setup, and…
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When Developer Workflow Discipline Isn’t Enough thectoadvisor.com/blog/2026… Selling cross-silo enterprise infrastructure stuff is very difficult: These are platform engineering objections. And they’re coming from a team the vendor never talked to. Because the vendor optimized their story for developer adoption. They have research that tells them developers love this. What they don’t have is a…
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Why it’s great to be a Spring developer now, and how to make it even better – State of Spring, 2026
This is a talk I give at the start of Spring workshops we do. Here is the recording. The point is to show people that being a Java and Spring developers is fantastic right now. Here’s the description: Spring developers are in a strange position in 2026: everything is changing: AI, platform engineering, enterprise architecture.…
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Where are the enterprise AI apps? Part n + 1
Outside of programming, there’s still a dearth of enterprise AI apps, it seems. Palo Alto’s CEO: “Consumers are far outstripping enterprise for the moment, but we expect enterprise will surely and slowly get on that bandwagon,” he said on the company’s Q2 earnings call. … “Right now … tell me how many enterprise AI apps…
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Proof of value lies in the results. To date, more than 90% of the top 10,000 VMware customers have purchased VCF, including nine of the top 10 Fortune companies. Leading companies such as Audi, ING Bank, Lloyds Banking Group and Walmart are adopting VCF and deepening their partnerships with Broadcom. Broadcom’s own internal IT teams…
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AI Is Normal Now – The Enterprise Is Not
Original Content Enterprise AI needs new apps, enterprise AI doesn’t need new platforms – I’ve been circling a theme this week after reading “AI as a Normal Technology” (Spring, 2025). This is some stream of conscious on it. Enterprises are gonna enterprise-y, especially with AI. Also available in LinkedIn, if you prefer that kind of…
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Ask yourself: which lock-in would an enterprise CFO prefer: Being locked into a CRM that holds 15 years of customer data, process customizations, and institutional context that would take two years and $50 million to migrate? Or, being locked into a foundation model that could be swapped for a competitor by changing an API endpoint?…
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Google shows that large language models, when paired with traditional tools and validation pipelines, can accelerate enterprise code migrations by 50% or more, unblocking projects stalled for years. The robot says: The most dramatic impact occurred in previously stalled migrations, which AI unblocked after years of delay. One migration achieved an 89% estimated time savings,…
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Enterprise ROI continues to be elusive
NICHOLAS LITTLE, from this IEEE article. Original Content Here’s a summary of a new post on my weblog: Three years into the generative AI boom, enterprise ROI remains stubbornly hard to find. Survey after survey shows a familiar pattern: widespread experimentation, lots of “in production” claims, and very little impact on revenue, costs, or P&L.…
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Recursive Loops, Enterprise Nanny-states, Garbage Chairs, and Improv
Garbage Chairs of Amsterdam, Duivendrecht edition. Original Content From Platform Engineering to Stand-Up Comedian, with Lian Li, Software Defined Talk #117: “In this episode, Whitney and Coté talk with Lian, a “cloud-native human” with a 15-year career in tech. Lian discusses her transition from tech to performance art, her experiences in amateur musical theater, stand-up…
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Industry analyst value after AI – how could Gartner use AI
Feeding the decades of Gartner research into some kind of AI querying thing would be interesting. Making sense of their reports takes a lot of time, and multi-year trends are hard to pick out. Writing into a chat window that was updated with not only the research reports, but also analyst opinions – maybe notes…
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Full on management-by-magazine phase in effect
Executive mandates are racing ahead of reality. Boards and CEOs often expect payback in 6–12 months, but disconnected strategies, messy data, and immature governance stall progress. While two-thirds of AI decision-makers say their organization uses genAI in production, only 15% report a positive impact on earnings, and just a third can link AI spend to…
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Office hours, DaShaun’s secret to juicing up your enterprise devrel
DaShaun became a great devrel by developing a new way to work with our community. I’ve seen it pay off in all ways, big time. Here is his key differentiation for devrel. The business if devrel: There’s more to developer advocacy than just conferences and content. The real thing that companies [that hire devrel] want,…
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The Potato, the Spreadsheet, and the AI That Checks Its Own Work
Of late, the newsletter has turned into me linking to longer posts on my blog. There’s the usual links and wastebook as well. This makes it more of a digest than a stand-alone item. As you can tell by the volume of blog posts below, I like blogging though and I’m glad I’m doing I…
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Reject the rejection of your writing voice especially when you’re writing “enterprise grade” copy
More Writing Advice Once you identify your style, try pushing back against some suggested changes. People reviewing your work don’t always edit with your style in mind and will think it’s appropriate to change it. This is especially true in business writing, where people expect a sort of neutral, flat tone. That can be great…
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