The 5 Must Avoid Enterprise Collaboration Mistakes
Today I had the privilege of presenting a webinar for PBworks on 5 must avoid collaboration mistakes that I see companies making quite frequently. If your organization is interested in enterprise collaboration then you may find this presentation valuable. The 5 risks that I discuss are: Lack of s supportive culture Not listening to the [...]
VMware Acquires Nicira–Quick Analysis
Yet another day of massive news with yesterday’s blast coming from VMware who are acquiring Nicira, a five year old veteran of software defined networking (SDN). This follows closely on the heels of VMware’s acquisition of DynamicOps, a heterogeneous cloud management tools and really speaks to VMware’s view on a future that is far from [...]
GigaOM Pro report on Hadoop and cluster management
My latest piece of work for GigaOM Pro just went live. Scaling Hadoop clusters: the role of cluster management is available to GigaOM Pro subscribers, and was underwritten by StackIQ. Thanks to everyone who took the time to speak with me during the preparation of this report. As the blurb describes, From Facebook to Johns [...]
Here are More Signs that LA Tech is Moving to the Next Level
I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. It was very widely read. If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. In that post I talked about how to select a law-firm for a startup. It [...]
Tips For Google+ Hangouts
I have been using Google+ hangouts ever since it came out and in the past couple of months, I have used it to effectively run online panel discussions on various topics of interest. In fact, I see Google+ Hangouts and Youtube broadcasting as a killer of Podcasts (if it is not dead already). It can [...]
Book review–Kill the Company
I seem to be on the mailing list for book publishers wanting people to read and review new business tomes – that’s not such a bad thing – I get a heap of literature and a great way to expand my library. The most recent review copy I was sent was Kill the Company by [...]
Microsoft People vs. Apple People
There are Microsoft people and Apple people.Microsoft people want every option, and can’t imagine why others would find the surfeit of choices intimidating or annoying.In the parlance of psychology, they are “optimizers”.Apple people want a simple, ele…
The Americans are Coming
This October, two great US events are making their first forays into Europe. O’Reilly‘s big data conference, Strata, reaches London on 1-2 October. Then GigaOM‘s cloud computing event, Structure, hits Amsterdam on 16-17 October. I’ve attended both in the States (see disclaimer), and look forward to seeing how each sets about fusing the best elements [...]
OSCON Day #3, #4, and Friday => Bailey’s Taproom, Cloud Camp, Cloud Foundry, Open Shift, PaaS, vert.x, and so much more…
Tuesday night, as usual ended with great technical conversation at Bailey’s Taproom. Bailey’s is basically the epicenter of the Portland tech scene. Almost every programmer, devops, or technical person either goes about once a month or has this establishment as a regular watering hole! It’s great, the atmosphere is chill, the beer is SUPERB, the [...]
HP Takes to the Skies with a Travel Vertical
One of the interesting announcements at HP Discover (disclosure – HP covered my T&E to attend Discover) recently was the announcement of HP Converged Cloud Services for Airlines and the HP Passenger Service Solution. I’m a pretty heavy user of airline services and have done a fair amount of consulting
Hardware, Cloud And Cloud Washing
Yesterday, under the shadows of OSCON 2012, Portland based cloud cost management company Cloudability ran a future of cloud fireside chat in which myself and fellow CloudAve blogger and Analyst Ben Kepes participated. The chat was moderated by TechCrunch blogger Alex Williams. We discussed various topics and where the industry is heading. During our discussion, we [...]
Google Drive breaks Google Docs?
Starting yesterday, I’ve been receiving requests from people to share some of the content I have on Google Docs. Yesterday I also shared a link with a friend of mine, and he couldn’t access it. That puzzled me I checked the last link myself, signed out, and tried again – I got a log-on. What? [...]
Preparing Developers For Tomorrow’s Cloudy World
As we started talking about extending the CloudU content beyond the introductory series of modules, one area that people asked us time and time again to give some thought to was the changes that developers would see in their working life because of the cloud. One only needs to take a look at the CloudU LinkedIn [...]
Learn To Fail And Fail To Learn
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education” – Mark Twain In a casual conversation with a dad of an eight-year old over a little league baseball game on a breezy bay area evening, who also happens to be an elementary school teacher, he told me that teaching cursive writing to kids isn’t [...]
