Tag: microblogimport20260616
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CA divests ERwin to Embarcadero
Embarcadero expands its DBA tools business, CA focuses more on IT ops: “We are actively managing our portfolio and investments, and the sale of CA ERwin further sharpens our focus on core capabilities, such as IT Business Management, DevOps and Security across mainframe, distributed, cloud and mobile environments,” [Jacob Lamm, executive vice president of Strategy…
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Lessons from Inbox Zero
Also, I’ve had to accept that some emails/actions require a laptop. I’d love to keep my inbox clean from my mobile devices, but they are sometimes only sufficient for triage. Lessons from Inbox Zero
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VMware launches “desktop as a service” offering with recently acquired Desktone (451 Report)
Earlier this week VMware announced it’s Desktop-as-Service (DaaS) offering, building on-top of the recently acquired Desktone asset. I have a 451 report for clients up. Here’s the 451 Take: VMware is launching a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering at an appropriate time, both beating Amazon to the 1.0 punch and playing into key trends that seem to…
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Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack
So far, those 200 organizations have enrolled more than 1,000 staff members in Mirarantis’s OpenStack training and certification program. Mirantis has trained over 1,000 people on OpenStack
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Raining during SXSW
# SXSW It’s SXSW time in Austin which is always enjoyable. Lots of folks come to town as I’m sure you, dear reader, know. It’s popular to complain. – a sentence that could stand on it’s own – about it, but I have no beef. I’m lucky enough – so lucky! – to get invited…
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[up.anv.bz/latest/an…](http://up.anv.bz/latest/anvload.html?key=eyJtIjoiTElOIiwicCI6ImRlZmF1bHQiLCJ2IjoiMjM1NDg4In0=) Oh no, the original Kim Phung caught on fire! (Source: http://up.anv.bz/)
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DigitalOcean gets $37.2m from a16z, with ~100k customers
Some pundits may argue that it is also going up against Amazon Web Services, but this is not the case: at around 5,000 Intel-powered Dell and SuperMicro servers the company fields around five percent of Rackspace’s fleet, and at most one per cent of Amazon’s. … This funding caps off a period of torrential growth…
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Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM
Kay said that on average, partners that have made the transition to the cloud early with IBM are seeing accelerated revenue growth of 2.5 times the average with the cloud In theory, the cloud abhors middleman. We’ll see. Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM
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Will the blighters pay this time? Betting big on developers (Register Column)
One of my collegues at 451 asked if I’d be interested in taking over his column at The Register. Of course I would, that’s only about my favorite news outlet ever. My first column is up now, all about what feels to me like the re-emergence of the developer market (tools and middleware), a theme…
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Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business
Office 365 is already leading the charge, with a 500 percent increase in active online users over the past year and already a $1.5 billion-a-year business, making it the fastest growing commercial product in Microsoft’s history (an accolade previously held by Sharepoint). From over at Diginomica. Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business
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Counting users instead of counting cash
The implication is that users/subscribers/audience members are loyal and will stay with the programming for some time. There is also a second implication that businesses which are not measured by audience size don’t have this loyal and recurring revenue base. The absence of an “audience” implies transience and impermanence and results in deep discounting of…
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We’ll offer complete visibility from application all the way to the end user. We have most of that technology today. Traditional IT management vendors are reducing investment and focus on managing IT systems inside the firewall. They’re running to the bright shiny object of cloud growth. The infrastructure that sits inside the firewall is not…
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[T]here will be classes of developers that go after Git and they’ll love Git for what it allows them to do which is to stay off the radar until their tiered promotion gets it ultimately to visibility, but there will be other shops that want to have that visibility the entire time and their compliance…
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Atlassian bundles ALM components around the popular git version control system (451 Report)
Atlassian released an ALM bundled centered around git recently. I wrote up a report on that release, git in broader terms, and of course profiling the current state of Atlassian. Here’s the 451 take: Git Essentials is a natural bundling move by Atlassian. The company has long been expert at tracking mainstream needs for software…
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Secondly, when evaluating new IT hardware and software assets for potential adoption, you need to institute a much stronger requirement for programmability and open APIs. Complete automation of your infrastructure requires programmatic access, and it’s simply insufficient to only have control via graphical interfaces. This isn’t just about provisioning and configuration support via such APIs,…
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Mirantis navigates changing OpenStack market, growth with 4.0 release (451 Report)
My team has a new report up on Mirantis, with updates on their momentum and an overview of what’s in their 4.0 OpenStack distro release. Here’s the 451 take, our brief opinion on the news: Mirantis reported more bookings in the last quarter of 2013 than all of 2012 – its growth by revenue, employees…
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Finally, I have discovered a horrible, rather brutal method that I recommend only to men of excessive vigor, men with thick black hair and skin covered with liver spots, men with big square hands and legs shaped like bowling pins. It is a question of using finely pulverized, dense coffee, cold and anhydrous, consumed on…
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Rainforest QA speeds up continuous integration cycle with blended cyborg model for testing (451 Report)
When I spoke at HeavyBit sometime ago on how to deal with analysts, I meet a several interesting development tool folks. One of them was Rainforest QA. I did a recent write-up of the company, available to 451 subscribers (a free trial is just a lead-gen away!). Here’s my take on the company: As we…
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CopperEgg tackles APM space under Idera (451 Report)
My colleague Dennis Callaghan wrote up an update around CopperEgg, the APM tool purchased by Idera in July of 2013. While you’ll have to be a 451 client to read the full report (or sign up for a free trial), here’s some excerpts: Now under Idera, CopperEgg has added real-user monitoring and repositioned itself as…
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