Dennis reports on a refer SAP user group survey which points to difficult up-take for HANA. It seems like the primary blocker is coming up with justifiable reasons to buy and use the thing, a “business case,” as the kids say.
On the other hand, the actual performance of the thing seem to be real, if under-appreciated by those report hungry LoB-monsters:
BW on SAP HANA was always going to be an easy win given the time it takes to run reports.
[S]ome outfits do still see coding as a risk to be costed, rather than a realisable benefit to be paid for.
OpenStack: It's easy if you're a full stack developer
“OpenStack talent is a rarified discipline,” McKenty said, adding, “to be good with OpenStack, you need to be a systems engineer, a great programmer but also really comfortable working with hardware. You need to understand how the infrastructure works under the covers.”
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“There’s 2,000 people working on OpenStack on the vendor side, and the customers can’t compete with HP to hire OpenStack engineers. So they’re relying on us to make OpenStack work for them,” McKenty said.
Cisco's 19 years of mega-growth
Since being tapped to lead Cisco in 1995, Chambers has grown the company from a $2.2 billion hardware manufacturer to a $48.6 billion network hardware, software, security and services powerhouse that’s more bullish than ever on becoming the world’s No. 1 IT company. Cisco had 3,827 employees when Chambers was appointed CEO. Today, there are more than 70,000.
Also, a somewhat random DevOps callout from a senior executive:
[Coté Memo #15] Docker for service providers, yyyy-dd-mm, $400m Docker valuation
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[Coté Memo #14] RAX still into IaaS, I think; what's Pivotal do again?
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[Coté Memo #13] Mesosphere, searching for VSLOOKUP, Herculean flops
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So I finally got to go to Australia and use those weird slanty bits on my international power adaptors.
[Coté Memo #12] The OpenStack market is growing, beyond IM, don't watch the end of The Killing
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Distributed transaction is, I would say, it’s an anti-pattern, and it is very hard to code in if there are like writes in transactions that need to happen in different places, in different databases, it makes it very difficult to make sure everything works really well.