Tag: microblogimport20260616
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What makes a good podcast?
Create a universe within your show Your universe should include a theme song, phrases you like to use, segments, anything recurring. Differentiate your show. This signals your values and has the benefit of giving your audience a fun way to communicate with you and with each other. The best shows do this organically. This whole…
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Tips on scheduling meetings
I’m constantly shocked at how poor most people are ar scheduling meetings. There’s often simple things like “use the free/busy function” that you have to remind people about. Anyhow, there’s some good tips here if you’re someone who does all their meeting scheduling in plain text (read: you need help!), e.g.: Instead, when I’m setting…
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Goodbye HANA daddy, assorted cloud bods: SAP gets corporate
Goodbye HANA daddy, assorted cloud bods: SAP gets corporate
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It’s Beta Time For CoreOS, The Linux Distro For Massive Server Deployments
It’s Beta Time For CoreOS, The Linux Distro For Massive Server Deployments
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Dealing with copyrighted APIs
“I am not a lawyer, but from a developer perspective, the idea of copyrighted APIs does nothing but introduce friction and uncertainty into the very integration efforts the developers use APIs to accomplish,” said Jeffrey Hammond, a vice president at Forrester Research. “Devs will now need to worry about the potential for API lock-in via…
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ERP is moving to SaaS all the sudden
The proportion of enterprises that have replaced or plan to replace existing ERP systems with SaaS has doubled from 12 to 24 percent in the past year, according to research published this week by industry analyst firm Forrester. In addition, the numbers planning to use SaaS alongside on-premise ERP — for example in ‘two-tier’ ERP…
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Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners
The channel business at Dell is about $20 billion per year. Dell said he can see that growing to $40 to $50 billion. Suggesting $60bn in “commercial” sales total for Dell? Dell’s business sales are 1/3 through partners
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Box strikes deal with GE to become the default file-sharing service of its 300,000+ employees
Box strikes deal with GE to become the default file-sharing service of its 300,000+ employees
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HP Helion: OpenStack redux
Good overview and some competitive and historic context. HP Helion: OpenStack redux
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Enterprise grade means you’ll run it a long time
I’m always looking for definitions of “enterprise grade,” and this is a good contextual point for that: The noise in the consumer market would have us believe that software is almost disposable. Something doesn’t work – junk it. Users don’t like XYZ software – replace it. Fail fast, fail often – that’s the road to…
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“They are absolutely our most devoted and fierce fans,” Mr. Plotz said. Gabfest fans often show up for live podcasts, another area of expansion. “They stand in line to get into an auditorium to watch three people talk into a microphone,” said Mr. Bowers, who estimates they have attracted crowds as large as 800 people…
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Trying to get normals to use IRC, once again
By way of example, Butterfield said that there are about 2,000 messages a day written by humans in Slack at his company. Another 6,000 more are generated automatically by machines. With such a high volume of information, having it all in one place, ordered, highly searchable, and with human chat layered on top helps make…
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SysTrack 7.0 continues Lakeside’s ‘big-data’ push in end-user management
My report on Lakeside Software’s new release is up. SysTrack is one of the veteran tools used in the end-user device management space and, if it can start adding in more mobile and tablet functionality, is well setup to profit from the churn in that area helping companies asses and then plan for how to…
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Embedding OpenStack in Solaris – Press Pass
Oracle announced that it’s putting OpenStack into Solaris, which is good fun. James Niccolai asked for my thoughts on the topic for his story. I hadn’t been briefed, so it was just speculation, but here’s the full text of what I sent over: Solaris was always – and no doubt still is – technically advanced.…
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Sun Grid, 2006
They ran it at network.com: While the Sun Grid has been an interesting alternative for large companies who might want to offload some of their workloads–such as the Monte Carlo analysis used to assess risk in investment portfolios, which doesn’t have any account information in it and is therefore not a big risk for a…
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Jaspersoft acquired for $185m by TIBCO
Enterprise software vendor TIBCO has acquired Jaspersoft, an open source business intelligence company, for approximately $185 million. One of the older charting kit companies goes for pretty cheap to an established BI (and queue/middleware) company. Jaspersoft acquired for $185m by TIBCO
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The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven’t been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it’s unlikely that they will. Stephen Elop, Microsoft’s new executive vice president of Devices, in the post announcing the completion of the deal…
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The IT growth is from new shit, IDC says
According to IDC, the 5 percent IT growth it sees for 2014 is comprised of two elements: Stagnant legacy infrastructure growth (0.7 percent) and a high third-platform infrastructure growth (15 percent). Just to bring the point home, IDC asserts that a full 29 percent of 2014 IT spending and 89 percent of all IT growth…
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Under Development- new podcast on software development
I have a new podcast up that’s on the ongoing topic of software development, big and small, tools and practices, news and theory, old and new. I’m co-hosting it with Bill Higgins. I’ve talked with Bill Higgins for many years, and occasionally we’ve done a podcast episode together. He was in town a few weeks…
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