Tag: podcasts
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Cloud Native Works in Government — the IRS, US Air Force, and contractors
“We have already slashed the time needed to implement new ideas by 70 percent while avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars in costs.” M. Wes Haga, Chief of Mission Applications and Infrastructure Programs for Air Force Research Lab Slowly but surely, the US government is improving how they do software. Working at Pivotal, I’m lucky…
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Building trust with internal marketing, large and small
Most companies don’t realize the amount of work required to fully transform their approach to creating and caring for software. Scaling up the improvements learned and put into place by your initial teams relies on building trust and understanding in the overall organization. For whatever reason, most people in large organizations are resistant to change…
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Bloomberg on kubernetes in Cloud Foundry
On overview of how Bloomberg is looking at the likes of Pivotal Container Services: “Many Kubernetes distributions are good on day one, when they’re first deployed,” said Andrey Rybka, technical architect in the office of the CTO at Bloomberg, the global finance, media and tech company based in New York. “But what happens on day…
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FIXED! MOLLE all the dongles, DevOps snipe hunting, & Docker (claims it) cuts cost by 50% – Software Defined Talk #108
Has everyone gone kubernetes crazy? It seems like most buyers and sellers at least want it as an option and are, if you prefer the word, capitulating to supporting it. In past weeks most all vendors – even Oracle! – have announced support and road-maps for using Google’s container orchestrator in their cloud-native stacks. Also,…
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Apple makes major podcast updates, tracking how much user’s actually listen
Apple said today that it will be using (anonymized) data from the app to show podcasters how many people are listening and where in the app people are stopping or skipping. This has the potential to dramatically change our perception of how many people really listen to a show, and how many people skip ads,…
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Cloud-native at Comcast, working with Pivotal – Highlights
I’m doing a podcast with Comcast in a few weeks, so I’ve been going over all their public talks on their cloud-native efforts. They’ve been working with Pivotal since around 2014 and are one of the more impressive customer cases with over a 1,000 applications now on Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Here are some highlights from the…
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The middle-class metallurgical people – boothing, streaming sportsball, M&As & IPOs – Software Defined Talk #92
Having something to sell is always key to a profitable business. We explore this life-hack of the business world in discussion Twitter and then Amazon licensing Thursday night football. There’s also some brief talk of Akamai buying SOASTA, Cloudera filing to IPO, and the lost dichotomy of agent/agentless. Also see full show notes.
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That rumor about Oracle buying Accenture: nope!
The Register closes out it’s reporting on the rumor that Oracle was considering buying Accenture: …spokeswoman Deborah Hillinger has since denied that an acquisition will take place, claiming: “The Accenture rumour is completely untrue. Never even considered it.” Meanwhile, Dennis covers the many reasons why the deal wouldn’t make sense in the first place. The…
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Life after artisanal pork rinds (i.e. tech M&A), CostCo Down Under – Software Defined Talk #86
With a flurry of M&A over the past few weeks, we discuss some of the more popular ones: AppDynamics, Trello, and Apiary. These kind of buys are all about what the acquirer plans to do with the new “asset” and the financial health of the company being acquired. We discuss these recent acquisitions, including who…
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“My pants are full of brisket,” Apple updates, & Oracle storms the AWS castle – Software Defined Talk #73
Apple has put out three new things – the phone, the watch, and the OS – which we discuss. And then Oracle announced it’s destroying Amazon, which is fun. We start it all off with a word-salad of the usual nonsense and deodorant talk. Also see full show notes.
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“Oh! Scurvy! Again.” – Software Defined Talk #72
It’s all fundings, divestitures, and acquisitions this week. Hashicorp gets some cash, HPE sells off it’s software group to Micro Focus, and Google buys Apigee…plus Twitter acquisition rumors. Plus sentient carpets. Also see full show notes.
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Unbreakable Docker, or, elephants, er, like other elephants – Software Defined Talk #71
We discuss the fun, changing land of the software stack… Also see full show notes.
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Deciding where the Docker ecosystem will make money
The Docker forking hoopla is providing an interesting example, in realtime, of how open communities figure out monetization. #RealTalk: Open communities are not immune to C.R.E.A.M. One of the most important decisions an open source community makes is where and how it will make money. I always liked Eclipse’s take because they’re mega clear on this…
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“No one wants to eat a finger-pie.” – Software Defined Talk #70
This week we discuss Rackspace going private and the OpenStack cloud scenarios that could have been. We also cover Matt Ray’s first trip to New Zealand where, sadly, he finds no Power Ranger monuments. Also, a little bi-modal flavor for ya. Also see full show notes.
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The two types of sales dudes you meet in heaven, the IaaS MQ, and layoffs – Software Defined Talk #69
There’s always good food in the enterprise sales meeting racket: gourmet pimento cheese, sushi and sake, and booze. Also, the Gartner magic quadrant for IaaS in out, which we discuss. With layoffs at Cisco we look at the broader numbers around layoffs in the tech sector. Before recommendations we briefly talk about Walmart buying Jet.…
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Too old for the buffet – Software Defined Talk #68
With Matt securely setup in Australia, we get the low-down on the down under. We also discuss rumors of HPE and Rackspace going private and catch up on Verizon buying Yahoo! Also see full show notes.
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Fried chicken, Docker Swarm, tech journalism, or, “but that sweet @MattRay interpolation, tho.” – Software Defined Talk #67
Is anyone minding the business side of these container orchestration plays? That’s the main topic we discuss after doing over recent Docker announcements. We then discuss the state of tech journalism and throw out a free business plan for left-ish fried chicken slinging. Also see full show notes.
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I-Bankers Smokin’ L’s in the Hot-tub – Software Defined Talk #66
With two surprise acquisitions this week we have a lot of synergies to discuss. We cover Samsung picking up Joyent, and Microsoft buying LinkedIn. Highly related is a recent article trying to explain what’s going on with private equity buying tech companies. Then, we discuss the big news from chef we’ve been waiting for: the…
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Residential Diaper Rash – Software Defined Talk #64
While Texas moistens up, we talk about the morals of rich tech folks suing journalists, the state of open source business, the history of the BI market, and how to use the Meeker decks. Check out the full show notes for links to the recommendations, conferences, and tech news items we didn’t get to cover.…
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The Snack-Tracker, Uber in Austin, & Tater Salad – Software Defined Talk #63
After we learn how to divide by eight, we discuss Uber being shut-down in Austin, then a recent case for hypervisors aging out. Also, we all agree that we’re way too old to consider anything new. Also see full show notes.
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