Tag: tech
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The seven layer ROBO attack
At the branch office what the industry has done is stack up appliances for everything from unified communications to WAN optimization, firewalls, routers, wireless network controllers, etc., so if you have 10,000 offices and four appliances per, you have 40,000 appliances spread all over the place. So what this one says is, “We want to…
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Things were different back in 2003, but developers still were kingmakers
From Rachel Chalmer’s 2003, coverage of Novell buying “SuSE” (451 client access required): Historically, Novell’s Achilles’ heel has been its inability to keep its independent developer community happy. Some fled NetWare for OS/2, which IBM botched in its turn. Meanwhile, Microsoft was happy to embrace and pamper NetWare and OS/2 burn victims as independent software…
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There’s big expectations mis-alignment in OpenStack-land
While this dude’s tone is pretty harsh, there’s not too much wrong here if you peel that back. The issue is one of contextualizing OpenStack. I think a lot of people want it to be a finished, done product. There’s even the sense from some OpenStack die-hards I’ve spoken with over recent years that commercializing…
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Cloud is hard
Cloud is really, really hard. Just read the headlines – enterprises and traditional IT vendors are struggling. Cloud is hard
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A $50m super computer for $33k
Amazon today operates at a scale that most people are unaware of and find incomprehensible when they get a glimmer of understanding of it. Just to offer an example, one weekend Cycle Computing used EC2 spot instances to create a 156,000 core supercomputer that spanned 8 AWS regions and provided 1.2 Petaflops of processing power.…
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“They don’t even come with APIs.”
“It is clear that networking has for a very long time been a black box. They don’t even come with APIs,” he explains. “This is the history that forced us to really look at way networks are laid out and build [devices] and do [it] ourselves. Also the cost – everything else in our data…
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Dropbox at “hundreds of millions of dollars” in revenue
Of all the start-ups, though, Dropbox has seemed to enjoy the most meteoric growth. It just reached 200 million users—or about 10 times as many people as it had at the end of 2010. Its revenue has grown 20 fold since late 2010 and is now in the “hundreds of millions of dollars” per year…
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451 Research: Boundary wants to be your MOM – Boundary
Most of what I write professionally is behind a paywall now, so it’s fun when something gets unleashed. One of our clients, Boundary, re-printed a piece on them I wrote recently, which provides an update and overview of their business, and speaks to their new VPC-driven private cloud offering. Here’s an excerpt of the customers…
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The plight of the DBA – Press Pass
What’s a DBA to do in a cloud world where platform as a service and PaaS-like automation seemingly removes much of the need to constantly car for pet databases? Well, there’s still troves of existing databases left and, really, things aren’t that perfect in cloud-land. I spoke with Klint Finley on this topic last week…
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More on BMC’s private plans
We’re all curious what Dell and BMC are going to do now that they’re private. I hope a lot of “crazy” stuff, myself, otherwise: why go private? Here are some comments from BMC’s VP Asia Pacific, Chip Salyards: “With a publically traded company you are on these 90 day cycles so you can’t change from…
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The link between freedom and money, data edition
Commercial services—including those used by Fortune 500 companies—outsourced to India typically consist of information technology outsourcing or business process outsourcing. For example, IBM likely employs the majority of its employees in India, where they process bank records, perform financial analyses, and write software. Chinese workers can no doubt handle these tasks, but given the reports…
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When white-collar workers have opinions
"The mobile revolution has given end-users the power to find new software, new ideas and new content all by themselves," he says. "If our users find a new mobile app that gives a better way to do their expense claim easily and efficiently, they will put pressure on their employer and say, ‘Why are we…
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@Walmart Labs’ Tim Kimmet talks what’s in store for mobile shoppers
"More than 50 percent of Walmart customers have smartphones, and mobile is driving more than 40 percent of Walmart.com seasonal traffic." —@Walmart Labs’ Tim Kimmet talks what’s in store for mobile shoppers
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People seem to be buying Chromebooks
Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300, according to NPD Group Inc. The devices, which have a full keyboard and get regular software updates from Google, are the fastest-growing part of the PC industry based on price,…
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Open Web Crew Blindsided
Then Facebook began to grow and grow. I remember the first time someone was showing me Facebook—it was Tantek of all people—I remember asking “But what is it for?” After all, Flickr was for photos, Delicious was for links, Dopplr was for travel. Facebook was for …everything …and nothing. I just didn’t get it. It…
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Two very different estimates of cloud email usage and forecasts
A while back I posted a quick quote from recent Gartner prognosticating about cloud email. The up-shot was that right now, it’s just about 8% for all types of companies, globally (except India and China for some reason). Someone from SpiceWorks left a comment that arecent survey of theirs indicated something much different, at least…
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No one got fired for buying IBM cloud
So what is the impact of IBM’s acquisition of SoftLayer? This analyst believes this acquisition may be a fundamental signal to competitors that the old world of outsourcing is fading and that the only way to the future is delivery of services via an “IT” utility called the cloud. Just consider that 80% of U.S. buyers indicate…
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Heterogenous Systems Management
Increasingly, PC makers are experimenting with Android, given that Microsoft’s Windows 8 devices have struggled to attract consumers, according to analysts. Google promotes Android as a free and open operating system, and many tech companies are already relying on the OS to build their smartphone and tablet products. PC makers will come out with more…
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A surplus of innovation
Adrian Cockcroft, who runs all things cloud for Netflix, called it “technical indigestion.” His group is releasing an open source project a week – including new monitoring tools that came out this week. “We’re driving a lot of innovation but we’re giving people indigestion. There’s only so many blog posts you can read in a…
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