Tag: microblogimport20260616
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People stuck in the email backwoods
Only 8% of office system users employ cloud-hosted email and desktop applications, according to analyst company Gartner Gartner expects that 10% of enterprise email inboxes will be hosted in the cloud by the end of 2014. …adoption will accelerate from the first half to 2015, reaching 33% penetartiong in 2017 and 60% by 2022 –Just…
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Progress enabling SaaSify
“Our ISV customers have said, we want to be able to compete in the cloud,” explains CEO Philip Pead. So Progress also announced that it would be gradually moving its software components into the cloud, to create an all new "platform-as-a-service" offering. – Progress Software buys a new front end for its PaaS play You…
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The Joys of Marginalia
I can’t really concentrate on reading unless I have a pen in my hand. I love marginalia. I love used books and getting a glimpse of some stranger’s relationship to a book that is now in my life. I underline, star, box, vent, exclaim. I like rereading my books and seeing coffee stains or chocolaty…
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OpenStack vs. Amazon
The differentiation [between Amazon and OpenStack] is that OpenStack technology is driving an initiative, throughout the world, which can be adopted and molded in a non-proprietary way. If you, as a user, want to integrate some proprietary technology into OpenStack, you can do that very easily. It’s basically an open system. The companies and brand…
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Maybe this Internet of Things bit isn’t bonkers after all
A new study from Rackspace titled "The Human Cloud: Wearable Technology from Novelty to Productivity" reports that 18 percent of the population in the United States and United Kingdom are using wearable technology, and the majority of those users (82 percent of Americans and 71 percent of Brits) say these devices are making their lives…
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Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract
Looks like that $600m AWS contract with the CIA is real, if not closed. Also of note: Amazon is bidding for building a private cloud – I think…? – more or less. More: Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract
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Planning is fine, but generally over-rated
He said he never sought lot of advice because if he had gone and asked people what he was about to do and work, they would have told him it wouldn’t work and dissuaded him from taking up the venture. “I would experiment experiment, test, go fast, fail fast. Planning is fine but generally over-rated,”…
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Amazon Staff Meetings: “No PowerPoint”
The traditional kind of corporate meeting starts with a presentation. Somebody gets up in front of the room and presents with a powerpoint presentation, some type of slide show. In our view you get very little information, you get bullet points. This is easy for the presenter, but difficult for the audience. And so instead,…
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https://www.brighttalk.com/clients/js/embed/embed.js When I was at Dell I worked in strategy and M&A, so speaking publically was not really in the job description. Nonetheless, I pitched in with my marketing friends from time-to-time, as in this talk going over cloud as Dell saw it and advice for users. (Source: https://www.brighttalk.com/)
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Lazy robots, or, Is cloud meeting your expectations?
As I mentioned earlier, Roy and and I had a webinar today about Dell’s cloud portfolio and strategies. Here’s a recording of it, enjoy. And, there’s also one on DevOps, from Barton and Willis.
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The 100 person limit
Size and internal vs. external coordination costs matter a lot. North of 100 people in a company, employees don’t all know each other. Politics become important. Incentives change. Signaling that work is being done may become more important than actually doing work. These costs are almost always underestimated. Yet they are so prevalent that professional…
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How GitHub runs itself
In that I work at BigCo that wants to transform, with lots of software in our future, I think a lot about this talk: From the 2012 Monktoberfest.
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Upcoming talk on Dell’s New Cloud Strategy
I’ll have a little cameo on a webinar tomorrow, speaking broadly to Dell’s cloud strategy. It’d a good chance to see what we’re up to now-a-days and how we think about it. This will be one of the first, public overviews of our cloud approach since we announced we were no longer building and running…
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Not sure which half works
In a separate study, out of 3000 marketers surveyed 41 percent said they were “uncertain” about the effectiveness of Facebook marketing. –Brands allocating most of social marketing budget on Facebook, uncertain of worth That’s too bad. All this fancy Big Data and clicking was supposed to fix that old quote.
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Microsoft keeps fast following to the cloud
In addition to Azure, Microsoft is offering other cloud services through Intune, its Internet-based computer management service. Developed for small offices with limited IT help, Intune provides a set of automated updating and management functionality for keeping Windows-based business computers in operating order. A quiet success for Microsoft, Intune now is used by more than…
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The Internet is now the check-out isle
I’m not actually mad at either Scalzi or Amazon; I’m getting good entertainment value for money. But I am in awe at the effortlessness with which successive instalments of cash are being whisked out of my wallet. In the hands of someone evil, this could be dangerous. –The Scalzi/Amazon Trap Have you seen that meme…
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Server sales
Basically, if you sold a Unix or proprietary server, your revenues shrank. –The Server Biz Stalls In The First Quarter
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