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Perhaps The Worst Press Release Of All Time?

May 27, 2014

Business

Big data, Business, Business Services, Buzzword, Customer Management, IBM, Internet of Things, monetization

I see some pretty bad press releases, but recently I saw what is perhaps the worst ever. 400 words in and I actually had no idea what the hell this company does. I’ve edited out the name of the…

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Want to API Enable Your COBOL Applications? Have At It

October 18, 2013

Business

COBOL, Commercial Products and Services, Data management, IBM, Languages, Netflix, Programming, SQL

So, the thinking goes like this. A multitude of critical systems are still running on old hardware, written in old languages and sitting on old stacks. Despite the unicorns and rainbows protestations of many, that isn’t going to change…

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CloudBeat – Coming Fast!

August 22, 2013

Business

cloud computing, CloudBeat, Conferences, IBM, Paul Miller, PayPal, San Francisco, venturebeat

For the third year running, Paul Miller and myself are consulting to VentureBeat and helping craft a conference agenda devoid of the usual vendor pitches and in their place full of real world customer stories. Having been on a…

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Is Cloud Foundry the Next OpenStack?

August 14, 2013

Business

ActiveState, CenturyLink, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, IBM, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service, VMware

Disclosure – I am an adviser to ActiveState, creator of the Stackato Cloud Foundry-based PaaS. I’ve also consulted to a number of companies mentioned in this article. Full details on my disclosure page. Ever since Pivotal was created with IP from…

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IBM and Cloud Foundry – Because War Makes the Strangest Bedfellows

July 29, 2013

Business

Charles Dudley Warner, cloud computing, Cloudfoundry, EMC Corporation, IBM, Open source, OpenStack, Platform as a service

Charles Dudley Warner is credited with making the well-known comment that war makes the strangest bedfellows and last week, in an act that would have impressed both him and The Art of War author Sun Tzu, IBM and Pivotal…

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Google and Walled Gardens – Farewell XMPP

July 10, 2013

Business

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, google, GoogleTalk, Hangout, IBM, Instant messaging, Larry Page, Microsoft, XMPP

Google’s corporate mantra is, of course, the oft repeated (and generally meaningless) “Don’t Be Evil”. While this is a nice motto, sometimes the harsh commercial realities of Google’s core products stand in the way of this mantra. Case in…

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Location Based Services Not Just for Consumers – Location as an IT Service Desk Enabler

May 10, 2013

Business

BMC, Companies, Foursquare, Help desk, IBM, Location awareness, Location-based service, MyIT, New Zealand, Service Desk, Software as a Service

At Interop this week I sat in a keynote where a Cisco executive explained how their location based technologies are enabling the MGM Grand resort in Las Vegas to have deeply contextualized and personalized interactions with guests in the…

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HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

May 1, 2013

Business

data center, High availability, HybridCluster, IBM, rackspace, Servers, SQL, VMware, Web hosting service

Last year while talking with Jason Seats, former VP of Engineering at Rackspace and more recently MD of TechStars Cloud, we started talking about existing data centers and what their needs were as they aim to compete with the…

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OpenStack and The Enterprise Cloud – Not the Usual Suspects

April 24, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, IBM, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, rackspace, VMware

Last week saw me travel very briefly to Portland to attend the analyst day at the OpenStack Summit (disclosure – alongside a posse of my analyst colleagues, the OpenStack foundation covered my T&E to attend the event. I’m also…

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OpenStack Grizzly Released Today

April 4, 2013

Business

Grizzly, IBM, NetApp, Open source, Open vSwitch, OpenStack, rackspace, SolidFire

In a couple of weeks I’ll be heading to Portland, Oregon briefly to attend past of the OpenStack summit (disclosures – the OpenStack foundation is supporting my T&E to attend the summit and Diversity Limited is writing a general…

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