As we continue to accelerate the pace of digital innovation across our global operations in an uncertain world, maintaining control over data locality and security is paramount," said Daniele Tonella, Chief Technology Officer, ING. “VMware Cloud Foundation 9 will provide us with the unified, enterprise-grade private cloud platform necessary to achieve multi-region consistency, enhance workload mobility, and confidently meet the complex cloud sovereignty and compliance requirements that underpin our commitment to our customers.
🔗 ING Selects VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 as Strategic Platform for Private Cloud Modernization
Amazon's enterprise AI strategy, explained by Neil Ward-Dutton
Neil Ward-Dutton, an IDC analyst focused on AI, automation, data and analytics, said three announcements on the first day of the conference were of note. “AWS AI Factories is one,” he said. “These are AWS AI infrastructure and software stacks, built and managed by AWS, but deployed in customers’ own datacentres. “These are, at least initially, aimed at the largest customers with the most challenging security or sovereignty requirements.”
“While the JavaScript language didn’t ship publicly until that September and didn’t reach a 1.0 release until March 1996, the descendants of Eich’s initial 10-day hack now run on approximately 98.9 percent of all websites with client-side code, making JavaScript the dominant programming language of the web. It’s wildly popular; beyond the browser, JavaScript powers server backends, mobile apps, desktop software, and even some embedded systems. According to several surveys, JavaScript consistently ranks among the most widely used programming languages in the world.
🔗 In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet
“The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.” As summarized a bit better: “The quick post is low-context, the effortpost is high-context.”
🔗 Why people like your quick bullshit takes better than your high-effort posts
Monday assorted links
Shadow AI, here it comes. Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself, stop…oh, forget it… - ”IDC research shows that unmanaged tech debt can consume 20 - 40% of development time, diverting resources away from innovation and modernization.” “warehouses of bananas.” Europe is under siege “Applets are officially, completely removed from Java 26, coming in March of 2026." - UIs need better shadows and contrast. ”Everything is a YAML document.”. Progress.
🤖 A stark analysis of how a withdrawing U.S., a resurgent Russia, and a coordinated China have placed Europe in existential danger, urging radical unification and rearmament.
Culture eats AI strategy for breakfast.
“Unlocking data.” Since the 2000’s we’ve been trying to “unlock” data in organizations. We’re still talking about it. What keeps it all locked up? Is this driven by the need to access it, or lower bills? How do we keep ending up locked up data? I feel like there’s a Straussian read on this enterprise tech marketing meme.
People don’t read vendor1 PDFs anymore. This is oft said. Is it true for you?
Should anyone be writing white papers anymore? Or should we (1) do short form pieces from social media micro-content, blog posts, advertorial, (2) do a lot more videos and podcasts (by that, I mean interview videos that happen to have an RSS feed), (3) make sure we have content to feed the AIs because people are getting their research from AIs? (4) Something else?
Put another way: what are the last three vendor PDFs you read that were useful?
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“vendor” - you know, cloud companies, software companies…but also consultants and even industry analysts. Maybe “white papers” from any source, really, that are not the actual “enterprises” doing the work. ↩︎