Tag: microblogimport20260616
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Solving for the Dr. No problem with cloud
This is the common staffing benefit of new technologies: As such, Redmond says, the result is not that IT becomes redundant; it becomes more strategically important than ever. And, significantly, it goes from being a department that normally says “no” to user requests to one that can start saying “yes.” Even comparatively minor things, such…
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M&A doesn’t often work
[S]tudy after study puts the failure rate of mergers and acquisitions somewhere between 70% and 90%. The second, less familiar reason to acquire a company is to reinvent your business model and thereby fundamentally redirect your company. Almost nobody understands how to identify the best targets to achieve that goal, how much to pay for…
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LiveOak raises more than $100 million to back Texas startups
LiveOak raises more than $100 million to back Texas startups
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HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef
Also, [see this other story on the topic](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DataCenterKnowledge/~3/KIgB7EGoc6A/). HP Orchestrates Datacenters With OpenStack, Chef
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A round up of why you should stand up more at your desk
A round up of why you should stand up more at your desk
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How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard – Network World
How VMware sees OpenStack as a standard – Network World
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Cisco not looking at Rackspace, doesn’t fit M&A criteria
“We don’t move into a market unless we think we have a realistic chance of gaining 40% market share with sustainable differentiation,” Chambers said at the Cisco Live conference when asked if the company needs to acquire an established cloud provider like Rackspace to succeed in cloud services. “And we try not to move into…
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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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“Rackspace simply cannot play in that league”
Good ol’ TPM! Also: Rackspace is also the largest publicly traded cloud and hosting provider, and unlike its rivals, its numbers are right out there. No one knows for sure what revenues and profits AWS, Microsoft, and Google are getting from their cloud and hosting businesses, and ditto for smaller players and telcos who also…
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The great OpenStack conundrum: with 15,000 members, why is adoption lagging?
This is the common OpenStack meme for coverage. Each Summit there’s more and more users – “customers” – but it will take a while before OpenStack is suddenly us an “overnight success.” Looking at it from a different perspective, OpenStack is one of the biggest, new model for open source development: they’re iterating on the…
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Reflections on the OpenStack Atlanta summit
Lydia at Gartner summarizes the motivations of OpenStack vendors, touching on what it means for “lock-in”: Customers should expect to be no less locked into an OpenStack-based vendor/provider than they would into any other CMP or cloud IaaS provider. Reflections on the OpenStack Atlanta summit
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\”software-defined washing\” – IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first software-defined conference
[“software-defined washing” – IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first software-defined conference](http://www.information-age.com/it-management/strategy-and-innovation/123458008/it-leaders-convene-london-uks-first-software-defined-conference)
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OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now
OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now
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\”software-defined washing\” – IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first software-defined conference
“software-defined washing” – IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first software-defined conference
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Networking in OpenStack
In many ways, Neutron’s failure and planned rebirth are a metaphor for OpenStack as a whole, with the tech promising too much at the start, becoming overly dependent on vendors, and only being fixed when paying punters started to confront its weaknesses. As the OpenStack collective learn these lessons the hope is that they will…
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Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager
Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager
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Why the Housing Bubble Tanked the Economy And the Tech Bubble Didn’t
Why the Housing Bubble Tanked the Economy And the Tech Bubble Didn’t
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