Tag: imported
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Relative momentum around Chef (née Opscode)
Chef’s Sales grew 250 percent year-over-year for the third quarter. The number of new Chef Software customers grew by 350 percent for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2013, with Fortune 1000 companies accounting for nearly 60 percent of Chef’s sales. Relative momentum around Chef (née Opscode)
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LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone
LeAnn Rimes new video shot entirely on iPhone
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An editor’s reading like and habbits
I like to spend some time looking through that and try to figure out, do I understand this paper and can I explain what it’s saying to people in a way that will make sense in a post on a website? A good reading list and explanation of habits too. An editor’s reading like and…
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The weekly manager meeting
Your job in a 1:1 is to give the smallest voice a chance to be heard, and I start with a question: “How are you?” The weekly manager meeting
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IBM developing cloud storage broker software
The software provides a single interface that administrators can use to spread data across multiple cloud vendors. Administrators can specify which cloud providers to use through a point-and-click interface. Both file and block storage is supported, though not object storage. The software contains mechanisms for encrypting data so that it remains secure as it crosses…
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The kookie, nerd uncle
My 16-year-old cousin: I broke my phone. Me: I will give you an iPhone 5s if you agree to one condition. Young cousin: Deal. Me: I’m also going to send you a three-pound bronze plaque that says “Donated by the world’s best uncle/cousin” and you need to superglue the phone to the plaque and carry…
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You are being watched over by twentysomething computer handlers who can be bought with foosball, free sodas and easily approved car loans. Chris N. Brown
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Finding patterns of misbehavior
Palantir got its start building software that helps tie disparate databases together to make it easier to search and analyze information. The technology proved to be a big hit among police agencies and intelligence services that wanted to illuminate patterns of behavior among individuals and manage large volumes of data more efficiently. Wall Street firms…
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Dell now using Puppet for it’s private cloud box
This is the private cloud in a box that Dell doesn’t call a “private cloud.” It’s converged infrastructure. Adding in Puppet is great and certainly makes it feel more cloudy. Dell has spent a long time, with several acquistions, trying to get ActiveSystems just right. As TPM sums it up: Active System Manager is largely…
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With time you realize that the number of questions outnumbers the number of answers. Pr Rodolfo Coria, Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia
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Maybe MDM is sort of silly
Arguably, there are still data on these devices, such as local copies of corporate email that might contain sensitive information. However, does the risk of unauthorized access to the average user’s email account and the loss of a $300 piece of hardware necessitate specialized technologies and a cadre of staff to implement and monitor them?…
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Going beyond a simple ordering system at Applebees
“It could show me things I can eat based on my activities for the day,” he notes. There could also be sensors built into the tablet that regulate things such as ambient lighting and noise, he notes. “There are a lot of things a tablet can pick up beyond showing you a menu,” he says.…
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IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013
Down 15% for consumers, 5% for business users. IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013
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Amazon getting into hybrid cloud storage
“AWS will have a long way to go to be able to accomplish this. They will need architects in the field, real people, they will need the help of the channel, allowing them to architect, sell and make good margin — perhaps white-label themselves like we have done with others,” Shepard told CRN. Amazon getting…
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Accused of Cyberspying, Huawei Is ‘Exiting the U.S. Market’
Why can’t you just pay attention to my main ideas and ignore the details? Accused of Cyberspying, Huawei Is ‘Exiting the U.S. Market’
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RedHat’s PaaS, OpenShift out with new rev
The PaaS market has been heating up recently and Red Hat’s release of the latest version of its PaaS marks the latest move. Pivotal (which is a spin out from VMware and EMC) recently released its PaaS named CF, which is the productized version of the Cloud Foundry open source project. Meanwhile, Verizon recently announced…
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No creativity needed to keep the trains running on time
[M]anagement’s function isn’t about creating, but rather “ensuring that repetitive tasks were completed, improving economic efficiency, maximizing labor and machine productivity. Not a lot of creativity is needed; in fact, it might even be inefficient.” And as I like to point out: he didn’t actually make the trains run on time. No creativity needed to…
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Finally, a monitor priced like the good old days: $3,499
Speaking of which, The UltraSharp 32 is now up for grabs worldwide for $3,499, while the $1,399 UltraSharp 24 is only available in South and North America to begin with and elsewhere on December 16th. No word yet on how much exactly the UltraSharp 28 will cost, but Dell did say we can expect it…
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Buying the hole, not the shovel
“This whole idea about coming from the outside and trying to sell something to the IT [department], I think, is starting to leave very fast,” Daher said. “Companies like ours, where we become an extension of a customer’s IT to support the business — that’s the approach, and we have to understand we are that…
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