Tag: imported
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🗂 Link: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover
“By 2024, three-quarters of large enterprises will be using at least four low-code development tools for both IT application development and citizen development initiatives,” the report said. “By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65 percent of application development activity.” Source: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover
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🗂 Link: Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera
Source: Activist investor Carl Icahn shakes up Cloudera
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🗂 Link: Reporter’s Toolkit
If you know, say, that the Tibetan monks’ ceremonial drumsticks were bamboo, yellow, and curved like carpetbeaters, you convey a lot more than if you say they were weird and fantastical. If one monk wore bright red-and-orange striped socks under his robe and another a watch with an expandable band, you say more than if…
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🗂 Link: Nissan CIO Driving Toward a Digital Future
More than 80% of the organization was outsourced, which inhibited information sharing and collective vision. Thomas set a goal to reduce outsourcing to 50%. Source: Nissan CIO Driving Toward a Digital Future
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🗂 Link: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion
There’s yet to be any real evidence that Uber’s business model will ever do anything other than burn investors’ money to make traffic worse. Source: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion
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🗂 Link: Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B
“Symantec will be left with its consumer product portfolio, which includes the Norton antivirus software and LifeLock identity protection brand.” And lots more details, including recent Broadcom acquisitions and pressures. Source: Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B
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🗂 Link: Hashiconf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery
“It’s 2019 so apparently everyone has a service mesh. Istio has been the most hyped – it has solid corporate backing from IBM, Google, Pivotal and SAP. These companies now need to do a better job of nailing use cases.” HashiConf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2019/08/07/hashiconf-eu-2019-the-service-mesh-push/ via Instapaper Source: Hashiconf…
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🗂 Link: Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases
If people from other countries already visit your site and make purchases, you might think it isn’t necessary to adjust your payment methods for them. But you’d be wrong. For each international customer that makes a purchase, there could be others who abandon checkout because they aren’t comfortable with any of the options available. Source:…
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The Strategy Bottleneck
This is a draft excerpt from a book I’m working on, tentatively titled The Business Bottleneck. If you’re interested in the footnotes, leaving a comment, and the further evolution of the book, check out the Google Doc for it. Also, the previous excerpt, “The Finance Bottleneck.” Digital transformation is a fancy term for customer innovation and operational…
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🗂 Link: Scale and velocity are driving the next generation of DevOps
This massive growth in scale has required an evolution in practices and organization to achieve success. Most of what technologists are aware of in this regard is labeled “DevOps,” but there is more nuance to it than that. The way infrastructure capacity is allocated becomes decoupled from specific hardware, so the infrastructure team has to…
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🗂 Link: Interviewing Users
The critical failing of user interviews is that you’re asking people to either remember past use or speculate on future use of a system. Both types of responses are extraordinarily weak and often misleading. Source: Interviewing Users
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Toyota is working to have 70% of new cars connected globally by 2020, with almost all of those in the U.S. and Japan. Automakers are already using the cloud to generate revenue through telematics insurance and car-sharing services. Toyota also has talked about using data to alert dealers when cars need servicing, provide information about…
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🗂 Link: Rich countries must start planning for a cashless future
These problems have three remedies. First, governments need to ensure that central banks’ monopoly over coins and notes is not replaced by private monopolies over digital money. Rather than letting a few credit-card firms have a stranglehold on the electronic pipes for digital payments, as America may yet allow, governments must ensure the payments plumbing…
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🗂 Link: CIO interview: Simon McNamara, chief administrative officer, RBS Group
Mobile banking is another key area of innovation, including NatWest’s personal finance app Mimo, which uses open banking application programming interfaces (APIs), artificial intelligence and data analytics to create a social feed that helps customers manage their money. Mimo is being beta tested with 5,500 customers. NatWest aims to extend the roll-out later this year.…
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Link: IBM fuses its software with Red Hat’s to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut
The effort has started with IBM bundling Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform with more than 100 IBM products in what it calls Cloud Paks. OpenShift lets enterprise customers deploy and manage containers on their choice of infrastructure of choice, be it private or public clouds, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Alibaba and…
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Link: Secret CSO: Amy Herzog, Pivotal
Practitioners need to be positive and intelligent enough to see how a whole system could work. But they also need to have this mindset of searching out all the ways that it could go wrong and what that looks like. Source: Secret CSO: Amy Herzog, Pivotal
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