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“Despite its uncertainties, the federal government wants to get to the cloud; in fact, it wants to double current progress. According the survey, only 23 percent of federal infrastructure services have moved, or are in the process of moving, to the cloud. The goal is 43 percent by the end of this year. That’s not going to happen” Why Federal Government is Still Behind the Cloud Curve

Okta Raises $75 Million, Boosting Valuation to Nearly $1.2 Billion

How Homeland Security’s CBP Turned $335 Million Budget Cut Into Cloud Opportunity « Breaking Government - Government news, analysis and commentary

CBP’s Wolf Tombe: Mobile, wearable technologies will advance mission

Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters - High Scalability -

The recording for my talk at DevOpsDaysDays Chicago is up. As I mention in the opening, it has some material from my previous talks but is also pretty updated with new tips and tricks, as it were. Here’s the slides if you like that sort of thing. (And, here’s the clown zombie, from Day of the Dead.)

A good overview of what marketing does and should be doing. It especially applies to commodity markets and for products that have little “real” differentiation except in the mind of the buyer (cars, beverages, raw materials, etc.). Fashion (low and high) would be an interesting case. When Marketing Is Strategy

Including an estimate (11.5m?) of the number of developers globally. Application Developers Alliance

’“Google is not an enterprise company and we are trying to become cognizant of what the enterprise needs,” Craig McLuckie, Google’s product manager in charge of its Kubernetes and Google Container Engine' Google Hopes Open Source Will Give Its Cloud A Path To The Enterprise

Everything announced at VMworld 2015 so far