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"Worldwide PC shipments totaled 70.7 million units in 3Q15, up 8.6% sequentially but down 11.1% from the previous year." Source: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC

"Worldwide PC shipments totaled 70.7 million units in 3Q15, up 8.6% sequentially but down 11.1% from the previous year." Source: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC

While employees are feeling more and more computer literate, they’re valuing the IT department less. Once again, IT has to reestablish itself as a source of innovation instead of cost-cutting, light-bulb illuminators. “Keep moving and get out of the way,” and all that. n=" online survey gathered data from 1,000 employees in Western Europe from organizations with more than 100 employee." Source: Gartner Survey Reveals Western European Employees View IT as a Technical Resource, Not a Digital Advisor

While employees are feeling more and more computer literate, they’re valuing the IT department less. Once again, IT has to reestablish itself as a source of innovation instead of cost-cutting, light-bulb illuminators. “Keep moving and get out of the way,” and all that. n=" online survey gathered data from 1,000 employees in Western Europe from organizations with more than 100 employee." Source: Gartner Survey Reveals Western European Employees View IT as a Technical Resource, Not a Digital Advisor

While employees are feeling more and more computer literate, they’re valuing the IT department less. Once again, IT has to reestablish itself as a source of innovation instead of cost-cutting, light-bulb illuminators. “Keep moving and get out of the way,” and all that. n=" online survey gathered data from 1,000 employees in Western Europe from organizations with more than 100 employee." Source: Gartner Survey Reveals Western European Employees View IT as a Technical Resource, Not a Digital Advisor

Survey commissioned by IBM to find out what makes mobile apps great. Then, of course, it seeks to tie more success (revenue) to that greatness. n=“1,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and India." Source: Forrester/IBM Report: ‘Great’ apps monetize five times better than good ones

Survey commissioned by IBM to find out what makes mobile apps great. Then, of course, it seeks to tie more success (revenue) to that greatness. n=“1,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and India." Source: Forrester/IBM Report: ‘Great’ apps monetize five times better than good ones

Survey commissioned by IBM to find out what makes mobile apps great. Then, of course, it seeks to tie more success (revenue) to that greatness. n=“1,000 consumers in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and India." Source: Forrester/IBM Report: ‘Great’ apps monetize five times better than good ones

Tech & Work WorldHow Microservices Fixes the Slow Train ProblemI write little columns for the internal Pivotal newsletter we have sometimes. Here’s one that’s about to go out. The ideas of “dependencies” and “coupling” are important touch points for understanding and conveying the software delivery benefits of a microservices approach to architecture. “Coupling” between services means that changes to one service have a big impact on another service. Coupling is considered bad in software architecture.

This week is a lull in travel. I’m closing out the year by going to lots of DevOpsDays (Charlotte, where I’m speaking, and Silicon Valley next week), a few internal summits, and my first Gartner show, where I’m speaking in a sponsored slot. Tech & Work WorldShameless Self Promotion“You should put that on The Slide” – Software Defined Talk #47 - us three are pretty busy now so our schedule is irregular, but here’s the latest.