Tag: podcasts
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Innovate or die, & make sure you’re lucky – Coté Memo #27
Just a few podcasts and links today. I should have a The Register column on OpenStack up by next issue (gotta write that next!). Cloud-Native Strategy Workshop, June 7th in D.C. Come check out a day-long workshop with me and Mark Heckler: You’d like to improve how your organization or agency writes and runs software. Like…
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Erryone’s after the cold cash – Coté Memo #26
I’ve been at OSCON this week and have a pile of video-cum-podcasts to edit and post, still from DevOpsDays Austin! The usual links and such below. Enjoy! Podcasts Pivotal Conversations: User Account and Authentication (UAA), with Sree Tummidi — soundcloud.com For God’s sake, don’t write you own access and authorization services. Coté Show: John Willis…
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Private cloud rules, containers, IT still (mostly) blows – Coté Memo #25
I’m at DevOpsDays Austin this week. This must be the 4th or 5th one, and I’ve been to all of them. It’s a good show, put on by good people. Next week I’ll be at OSCON in Austin (find a discount code over in this week’s show-notes). There’s mucho links this week, I even left…
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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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Spreading the happy-sauce – Coté Memo #24
Hello, as I like to do every six or so months, I moved some publishing infrastructure around. This time, back to Revue from the fully automated Mailchimp. Yay me. Links Here’s a mix of things I’ve done recently and other items I liked. The Frontside Podcast: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack…
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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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No one likes being told their dead, dev skills, books to read – Coté Memo #23
It’s the end of the year – might as well be over once I wrap up today. On the other hand, if you’re in sales, it’s hardly the end of the year. It might be the most white-knuckling two weeks left. I’m sure glad I don’t do that work. Infrastructure Software in 2016 summerized Coté…
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Largile, living with nudists, containers, & jobs – Coté Memo #21
It’s turkey time! In the US at least. There’s a few pieces of my content below and some links. I’m hoping to just have two more trips this year, but we’ll see what Q4 demands have. I’ll be at the Gartner AS&S conference in December. Come on by the Pivotal booth to say hi if…
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Smelly coders, profitless stacks, & digtal whatnot – Coté Memo #17
Make sure to go vote, early if possible! This issue is a round-up of some links and content I’ve been up to since last time. I’ve had the iPhone 7 Plus for several weeks now. I really, really like it. I was afraid it’d be too big, but I think it’d perfect. I just updated to…
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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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