Pivotal had a pretty major milestone this last quarter, over a quarter-billion dollars in 2016 bookings, up 130 percent year-over-year. The momentum with Pivotal in terms of digital transformation is white hot. Pivotal is now engaged in a third of the Fortune 100, and I would say the strategy so far has been to only go after the tallest buildings in the city. The opportunity to take Pivotal Cloud Foundry into Fortune 2000 and beyond is enormous.
Final prices for Dell Services and Software divestitures: $3bn & $2.4bn
On March 27, 2016, Dell entered into a definitive agreement with NTT Data International L.L.C. to sell substantially all of Dell Services for cash consideration of approximately $3.0 billion. On June 19, 2016, Dell entered into a definitive agreement with Francisco Partners and Elliot Management Corporation to sell substantially all of Dell Software Group for cash consideration of approximately $2.4 billion. Link
Building out the IoT backend at Ford
Predicting data storage requirements of 200PB by 2021 – growing from today’s 13PB – Ford chief exec Mark Fields said in a canned statement that the new bit barn “will increase the ability of Ford’s global data insights and analytics team to transform the customer experience, enable new mobility products and services, and help Ford operate more efficiently.” Link
Vanguard's thinking on microservices
Breaking up the monolith with good, old fashioned, OO-think:
Instead, Vanguard has begun a journey to break apart our monolithic legacy systems piece-by-piece by replacing them with microservices over time. With a microservices architecture, we remove the business logic and data logic from our applications and replace it with a set of re-usable modules of code that are built and deployed as independent entities. We then compliment this architecture by chunking out our user interfaces into modular purpose-built components.
The Economist on Amazon - Highlights
Video: "In 2017 Amazon is expected to spend $4.5bn on television and film content, roughly twice what HBO will spend. But it has a big payoff." Prime momentum: "Mr Nowak reckons the company had 72m Prime members last year, up by 32% from 2015." Cloud: "Last year AWS’s revenue reached $12bn, up by more than 150% since 2014." Anti-trust, in the US: "If competitors fail to halt Amazon’s whirl of activities, antitrust enforcers might yet do so instead.
Spending from outside of the IT department
Corporate departments outside of the IT department, globally, are forecast to spend $609bn in 2017:
A new update to the Worldwide Semiannual IT Spending Guide: Line of Business from the International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts worldwide corporate IT spending funded by non-IT business units will reach $609 billion in 2017, an increase of 5.9% over 2016. The Spending Guide, which quantifies the purchasing power of line of business (LoB) technology buyers by providing a detailed examination of where the funding for a variety of IT purchases originates, also forecasts LoB spending to achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.
Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production
Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in production and 50 apps in development. In October 2016, the numbers increased to 47 apps in production and 225 apps in development. Australian Government Cuts Release Time with Cloud Foundry, Iterates Faster - Cloud Foundry Live
Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production
Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in production and 50 apps in development. In October 2016, the numbers increased to 47 apps in production and 225 apps in development. Australian Government Cuts Release Time with Cloud Foundry, Iterates Faster - Cloud Foundry Live
Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production
Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in production and 50 apps in development. In October 2016, the numbers increased to 47 apps in production and 225 apps in development. Australian Government Cuts Release Time with Cloud Foundry, Iterates Faster - Cloud Foundry Live
Australian government's Cloud Foundry apps in production
Delivery teams are now able to build services faster and easier. In July 2016, DTA had 14 apps in production and 50 apps in development. In October 2016, the numbers increased to 47 apps in production and 225 apps in development. Australian Government Cuts Release Time with Cloud Foundry, Iterates Faster - Cloud Foundry Live