In many ways the turnaround at the company is a reflection of trends in the broader Hadoop community, which spent much of last year dealing with the fallout of hyped tech claims and false promises. This year, by contrast, some businesses seem to be finally squeezing some real value out of the tech, bringing a new round of enthusiasm (and cash) into the startups involved with the tech.
Hadoop hype update
The reality is that finance will eat strategy for breakfast any day.
There’s a lot to like in this recent Christensen and van Bever piece. It’s a re-framing of how companies should think about what success means when investing in new businesses.
Why I Won't Get Divorced, or, Living with Beowolf
Why I Won’t Get Divorced, or, Living with Beowolf
If you’ve ever wondered why Facebook is such a joyless place, even though we’ve theoretically surrounded ourselves with friends and loved ones, it’s because of this need to constantly be wearing our public face. Facebook is about as much fun as a zoning board hearing.
robertbrook/the-island
fadingcity:
I finished my story called ‘The Island’.
robertbrook/the-island
If it weren’t for these thumb-fingered rich idiots destroying technological development, we’d be sipping champagne on Mars right now.
New cloud category: "Cloud Enabled Managed Hosting"
To some extent Gartner has recognized that managed cloud is in its infancy and has named Rackspace in its 2014 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), a report that focuses on multi-tenant cloud infrastructure providers. At Rackspace, we’re looking forward to seeing the upcoming Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Enabled Managed Hosting, North America, which will focus more on the service layer on top of the infrastructure, rather than the infrastructure itself.
The Great Rewrite, IBM style: a "reordering"
[Big Data, cloud and social/mobile] are truly going to change the profile of this company. And, if you think about it, actually they’re going to change the profile of this industry. As I like to think of it, the industry is reordering. If you take cloud, data and engagement, those are shifts that taken in total, this convergence, it will reorder the industry and we will lead that. We’ll lead it from the enterprise perspective.
Lengthy Collaborating
Eventually, a group gets just big enough that the first response to every attempt to collaborate is “this is too long.”
Internet of Things Needs a Steve Ballmer Moment, Says Deutsche - Barron's
Internet of Things Needs a Steve Ballmer Moment, Says Deutsche - Barron’s