Tag: microblogimport20260616
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Digital hoarders
I’ve always been attached to the platonic idea of an attic, where traditional families who live in the same house for forever stick their prized possessions and junk, so that other family members can go up and trawl through it at watershed points in their lives to discover some curio that leads them to a…
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Tim Anderson’s ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, everything
Tim Anderson’s ITWrit2013: the web gets more proprietary. So do operating systems, mobile, everything
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The Day Google Had to ‘Start Over’ on Android
Excerpt from a book. Always love some tech history. The Day Google Had to ‘Start Over’ on Android
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The $158B data-driven advertising market
I guess this why companies like Oracle and IBM keep buying advertising SaaSes and such: The report estimates that in 2012, the data-driven marketing economy added $156 billion in revenue to the U.S. economy and fueled more than 675,000 jobs. To put that statistic in perspective, that’s nearly half of total U.S. expenditures on marketing…
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IBM customizes OpenStack workload placement with Platform code
Within an OpenStack deployment, the Platform Resource Scheduler can choose the most appropriate server in which to place a new virtual machine based on policies crafted by the administrator. Criteria can include how much of each machine is already being used in terms of its CPU utilization, memory utilization and other factors. I’d expect to…
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What do “strategy” people do, really?
Broadly speaking, CSO responsibilities fall into three categories—strategy development, resource allocation, and strategy execution—but activities within these three categories vary widely. (See Exhibit 1.) Most CSOs are responsible for identification of growth opportunities (84 percent of the executives we interviewed), strategic planning (82 percent), and M&A and divestments (82 percent). Other common responsibilities include monitoring…
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Oracle’s cloud plans
“We intend to compete aggressively in the commodity infrastructure-as-a-service marketplace,” he said. “We’re not going to have that alone … our intention is to sell our customers IaaS and the same customer a highly differentiated platform-as-a-service which will let us get better margins and a highly differentiated suite of applications for the cloud.” Oracle’s cloud…
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Things are going the wrong direction in the server market
Continued soft demand for servers around the world resulted in a 3.7 percent decline in sales during the third quarter, according to IDC. A poor showing by IBM, which suffered a 19.4 percent decline in factory revenues during the quarter, enabled Hewlett-Packard to regain the title as the world’s top server maker. Cisco and the…
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OpenStack on Wall Street – Developers
To speed up development of custom written applications, of course. OpenStack on Wall Street – Developers
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Becoming a cloud, tips for service providers
Last week I was in an online panel with Flexiant and ThinkGrid talking doling out advice for service providers who want to go cloud. Rather than the usual vendor/analyst dynamic, we managed to get an end-user, as it were, on as well, Rob Lovell, CEO of ThinkGrid. The result was a fun discussion: we focused…
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[Gallery images not available] I threw this camera out today. I’ve owned it since around 2002 or so. I used to carry it constantly alongside my RAZR and other (feature) cellphones. It was a great camera and cemented the Canon brand as “just works, good stuff” in my mind. I let my 3 year old…
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Good #DellWorld summary and take from @benkepes
Good wrap-up so far: It’s a long list of news but I’m left wondering how substantive it will actually be for Dell as a company. I understand their new strategy of being a neutral player and offering a plethora of cloud services – but all these announcements run the risk of creating mass confusion for…
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What’s the plan at Dell? Questions for #DellWorld
Going into DellWorld, there are a handful of high-level questions – well, really, statements in the form of questions – that’d love to hear Dell’s reaction to. They all really revolved around “what’s the plan now?”: How is Dell going to run things differently now, day-to-day? From what I can tell (reading press releases), the…
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Risk of your cloud going out of business
Nearly 50% saw cloud-based solutions as having “a great deal of risk” while 33% saw “somewhat” risk. Only 12% indicated there was little risk. Risk of your cloud going out of business
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Extreme Programming, 14 years later
[F]ourteen years ago it was wildly controversial. Indeed, it was so controversial that whole books were published describing how this couldn’t possibly work, and how all the proponents were knuckle-dragging, money-grubbing, nitwits who never wrote a line of code in their lives and…. Extreme Programming, 14 years later
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IBM goes bonkers for DevOps, highlighting how it’s being interwoven with its portfolio
After attending the IBM software group analyst summit, it was clear that IBM is going “all in” on DevOps. This is not only product-wise, but internally as well. I hope to be covering this topic more. In the meantime, for 451 clients, here’s my report on the topic, and the summary out-take: These activities feel…
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Developers gorging on speed and data
I like how Alex sums up the current, overriding approach to development in passing: Speed is the differentiator in almost any market that is getting disrupted by online services. In turn, online providers need faster ways to serve their customers. For example, a physical retailer will have to increasingly find new ways to minimize the…
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Crazy cloud pricing confusion
451 found that there is a large differentiation among providers when it comes to pricing, which it says is because the market is still “finding its feet” so there are not standards for anything across providers, and especially with pricing. “Obviously this isn’t great for consumers, who have to understand each method and weigh every…
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Spying in virtual worlds
Can virtual marketplaces for magical D&D weapons really be used for laundering real-world cash from criminal enterprises? Spying in virtual worlds
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SmartBear adds APM capabilities with Lucierna acquisition
The APM stuff is going like hot-cakes apparently. Adding to it’s developer & QA tools and monitoring (AlertSite) portfolio, SmartBear announced it’s acquisition of Lucierna. On that note, one of the analysts on my team, Dennis Callaghan, has a long report coming out on the APM as a Service market this month. I’ve, of course, read…
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