Hacking Demo Days like an SDR
So it took me a little while to grok and figure out Demo Days. They are overwhelming. Too many start-ups presenting, too quickly. Too many charts and graphs with unlabelled X and Y axises. Not enough detail, not enough time, too canned, too polished, not polished enough. But with 20 institutional and angel investments […]
Palo Alto CIO: What are smart cities?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is among the promising and interesting parts of digital transformation. The application of sensors, cloud and mobile devices to improve life in urban areas is often called smart cities. Palo Alto, California, located in the heart of Silicon Valley has taken a lead in developing smart city services. For this […]
Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook
I’ve been spending a lot more time on Facebook as a blogger than I ever did. So I thought it was worth explaining why. And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. If […]
Why The Next Generation of Online Video Companies Will be Vertical
Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America. Founded in Los Angeles by Latinos to address the growing demand for short-form online video for Millennials it is probably single-handedly improving the diversity of the tech industry as the employee base is overwhelmingly Latino and proud. […]
SAP and SuccessFactors HR2016 and a Special Discount Code
The 15th Annual SAP HR2016 Conference will be held in Las Vegas from February 23 – 26 at the Las Vegas Wynn hotel. It is regularly considered, along with SuccessConnect, one of premier events for SAP and SuccessFactors professionals, consultants and customers. There are more than 130 sessions, 50 exhibitors, 20 case studies, 32 hours […]
Making Markodojo | Untold SaaS Product Secrets
Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of Markodojo, my agile marketing management SaaS startup and an entirely new breed of enterprise marketing software. You say: “That’s great Joel, but what’s in it for me?” Well, if you are a marketing manager, please skip to the shameless plug below, then head straight to the Markodojo […]
It’s Time For You To Make Security a Core Feature — Not a Tax
So many things have gotten better on the product side of SaaS in the past few years. Amazing tools, the evolution of AWS as “enterprise grade”, so many great things. One thing I am less impressed with though is the evolution of SaaS security — application-level security, in particular. Let me give you two recent […]
Google Docs to WordPress: New Add-On Even More Intuitive
So you’ve spent a substantial amount of time writing, editing, and structuring your post on Google Docs and it’s all ready to be published from WordPress. You copy paste your content into the WordPress text editor before realizing that everything needs to be re-configured yet again to fit in with the style of your blog. […]
The Missed Opportunity of Agile SaaS
As the launch date approaches for Markodojo, my agile marketing SaaS startup, I’ve been thinking a lot about how my SaaS experiences have shaped my thinking on agile management, and visa versa. SaaS and agile present complementary aspects that enable a uniquely symbiotic relationship. Agile aims to help businesses increase responsiveness to customer needs, while […]
Five Things OpenStack Needs to Do … Now.
At the most recent OpenStack SV 2015 event, I was invited to speak and provide a viewpoint on OpenStack’s future. The year before in 2014 I gave a talk entitled “Lie of the Benevolent Dictator” which spawned the Product Working Group for OpenStack. A blog posting entitled The Future of OpenStack is Now, 2015 in […]
DevOps decoded: Guru explains what it is and why you should care
Anyone working in IT has heard of DevOps. It’s a phrase associated with giant cloud companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Salesforce. But DevOps also seems obscure, like a secret handshake that’s hiding in plain sight. To demystify DevOps, I invited one of the world’s most prominent DevOps figures to join me on CXOTalk. Gene Kim […]
Fighting Back Against Mobile Phones in the Bedroom
Technology. It has been a hobby of mine since 1981 when I fell in love with programming, applications and online games. My brain is wired for logic and for problem solving and computers have always helped me fill this compulsion. And since I was 13 years old I have been accustomed to the debate about […]
Cloud … You’re Doing it Wrong!
I’ve been doing “cloud” for about as long as it’s been a “thing”. It is safe to say that I’ve talked about every conceivable topic related to cloud and cloud computing. Unfortunately, I still run into a common problem, which is that the average enterprise looking to adopt cloud or build their own, is usually […]
Killing the Storage Unicorn: Purpose-Built ScaleIO Spanks Multi-Purpose Ceph on Performance
Collectively it’s clear that we’ve all had it with the cost of storage, particularly the cost to maintain and operate storage systems. The problem is that data requirements, both in terms of capacity and IOPS are exploding and growing exponentially, while the cost of storage operations and management is growing proportionally to those data needs. […]
A CoprHD Status Update
I wanted to provide you a big update on Project CoprHD and a mea culpa. As many of you know, EMC launched CoprHD during EMC World 2015 and made the code generally available on June 5th. Unfortunately, we are learning the hard way about proper follow through when open sourcing a project. As you probably […]
