Large multinational organizations are complex beasts. This is, even more, the case when they are loose aggregations of autonomous regional and national organizations. A case in point if the International Committee of the Red Cross. The ICRC helps people…

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Ahhhh, the technology industry. The home of making stuff that matters and solving the really big problems. While there are some negative aspects of being involved in this industry, it all seems worthwhile when pitches like this hit my…

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“Go big or go home” is a refrain often heard in Silicon Valley. And it shouldn’t come as any surprise in a region where anything less than a billion dollar exit is considered paltry. Silicon Valley has if not…

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A few years ago I attended Sage’s global user conference in New Orleans alongside a small group of industry analysts and media folks. The event was my first experience with Sage’s then freshly minted CEO, Stephen Kelly. Kelly, who…

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Anyone who has been hovering around the Netflix world for the last few years will realize that they are perhaps the number one poster child for cloud engineering. Seemingly every time that Amazon Web Services has an outage (which,…

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The superlatives about cloudy storage vendor Rubrik just keep coming and coming. Since its founding, only a few years ago, the company has grown massively – it now boasts over 1,200 employees across six continents and has raised an…

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Never one to do things completely by the books, Google has an interesting announcement a couple of weeks after its global conference. Normally vendors hold all their news and send it out to the adulting crowds over the course…

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For those who need an explanation for the title, take a minute to peruse this Wikipedia entry…. I’m a New Zealander through and through and for anyone unaware of the fact, that pretty much guarantees an immediate and absolute…

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Larry Ellison has long been the kind of bluster, few will ever be able to erase the memory of Larry’s diatribe in the early days of cloud. One thing that isn’t bluster, however, is the oft-repeated Ellison reflection upon…

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