Tag: Enterprise2.0
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The Product Model Solves For Tech Debt – ”Forrester does not recommend ROI as a criteria for deciding to rectify technical debt, which should be seen more as essential maintenance spend.” // If you risk rail company they shouldn’t spend money on train maintenance, they’d tell you would kill the business (and people). Software is…
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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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Communication Structures in a Growing Organization – Jessitron – Why you do tops-down management and lots of meetings in larger, more mature companies.
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Where do modernized apps go to live?
Where are people putting their modernized apps? Here’s a recent survey chart on that topic from 451: Recent Content Three things for you today: The private cloud equilibrium – my most recent attempt to figure out how much private cloud is out there. Platform Engineering and UK Digital People, with Abby Bangser – this week’s…
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CEO Kurian: ‘When I Started, Most People Told Me We Didn’t Have a Chance’ – “We’re now the fourth largest enterprise software company.”
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Platforms Engineering – Not a fan: “Platform engineering isn’t gluing a bunch of off-the-shelf tools together. More templates, variables, and YAML isn’t going to make it easier for application developers to deploy faster, reduce cognitive load, and still innovate (a topic for another time). And the CFO isn’t going to fund multiple platform teams–at least…
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How to Keep Learning at Work — Even When You Feel Fried – Enterprise Mindfulness: find out what you want to focus on and personally find valuable, then use your own motivation to structure work that fits your own goals. Also: try to have less toil/cognitive load.
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Cloud Foundry in Action: Real Customers Stories from Cloud Foundry Day – ”We run a tremendous number of applications on top of Cloud Foundry. The ones that really impress me might surprise some people. It’s not just Black Friday sales but also the Amazon Prime events. When these events kick off, there’s an incredible surge…
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The Product Model in Traditional IT – Silicon Valley Product Group : Silicon Valley Product Group – ”Outcomes vs Predictability” is good framing for switching from traditional IT to “digital transformation.”
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Why We Hate Working for Big Companies – Capitalism knows the central planning committee is bad, so, logically, Capitalism runs on corporations that are central planning committees.
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IBM Is Buying HashiCorp. What Comes Next? – Good analysis of the possible business strategy, the synergies to activate. // “Customers in specific industries, often highly regulated and conservative in outlook, have often chosen IBM and continue to do so. For them, the value of cloud is complementary at the margins, not a wholesale change…
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The secret of selling your product to enterprises – Sales is hard and expensive because of all the time and activities it takes, only the multi-quarter timeline, etc.
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What I did this summer, the PowerPoint
Cut the “what I did this summer” slides Flick through a typical strategy document, and you will often be impressed – awed, even – by the intricacies of logic and articulacy of argument within. Yet on reaching the end, you may feel a sense of emptiness. You go back through the document; there are justifications,…
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Link: Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology)
In terms of the best integration architecture, what seems to me the only long-term solution is something like the unified log architecture that Jay Kreps wrote about back in 2013. All incoming writes need to go into a centralized log, such as Kafka, and then from there the various databases can pull what they need,…
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Link: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth and Commitment to Enterprise Customers
“For the six months ending April 30, 2018, SUSE saw revenues of $182.9 million, which represents continued growth of approximately 17 percent over the same period in the previous year. Adjusted EBITDA for that period was $56 million, nearly 23 percent year-over-year growth.” Original source: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth…
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Link: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?
Original source: Has Kubernetes Already Become Too Unnecessarily Complex for Enterprise IT?
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Link: The End of Enterprise IT, ING org. structure
“They chose to adopt an organizational structure in which small teams – ING calls them squads – accept end-to-end responsibility for a consumer-focused mission. Squads are expected to make their own decisions based on a shared purpose, the insight of their members, and rapid feedback from their work. Squads are grouped into tribes of perhaps…
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Link: Docker founder Solomon Hykes leaving company, cites need for enterprise-focused CTO
“To take advantage of this opportunity, we need a CTO by Steve’s side with decades of experience shipping and supporting software for the largest corporations in the world. So I now have a new role: to help find that ideal CTO, provide the occasional bit of advice, and get out of the team’s way as…
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Link: Heptio readies its customers and community for Kubernetes critical mass
Includes some packaging/pricing: “HKS is offered in four tiers including Starter, with one supported configuration, unlimited tickets and up to 25 nodes; Professional, intended for organizations that are growing their deployments, with up to three supported configurations, unlimited tickets and up to 250 nodes; Enterprise, for large, mission-critical environments that covers up to five supported…
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Link: Almost half of CIOs plan to deploy artificial intelligence enterprise solutions | ZDNet
“According to the CIO agenda survey, four percent of CIOs have already implemented AI in some fashion, but a further 46 percent have plans to follow suit. In addition, 20 percent of CIOs worldwide have pilot AI programs in the pipeline for implementation in the near future.” But, wait: “However, not every AI pilot will…
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