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A presentation is just a document that has been printed in landscape mode

I’m always wanting to do a talk or write a series of items on the white-collar toolchain, or surviving in big companies. Here’s one principal about presentations in corporate settings. Slides must stand on their own Much presentation wisdom of late has revolved around the actual event of a speaker talking, giving the presentation. In a corporate setting, the actual delivery of the presentation is not the primary purpose of a presentation.
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Mirantis funding, revenue estimate

“‘We’ve gone from signing about $1 million in new business every month to $1 million every week,’ [Mirantis] CEO Adrian Ionel said recently.” You could do some spreadsheets if you spitballer non-new business and estimated when the switch over happened. Something like $12m to $20m a year? Mirantis funding, revenue estimate

A tale of two ITs | Business Cloud News

“The challenges are cultural, organisational, and technical. According to the 2015 BCN Annual Industry Survey, which petitioned over 700 senior IT decision makers, over 67 per cent of enterprises plan to implement multiple cloud services over the next 18 months, but close to 70 per cent were worried about how those services would integrate with other cloud services and 90 per cent were concerned about how they will integrate those cloud services with their legacy or on-premise services.
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Docker Deployment: A View From the Trenches

“As of early June, Mesosphere said Yelp is launching more than 1 million Docker containers a day using its framework. Shah said this week about 20 percent of Yelp web sites are running on DCOS.” Docker Deployment: A View From the Trenches