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Michael Coté

Michael Coté

I really don’t have hobbies except for the flitting around in the technology world. You may know me from DrunkAndRetired.com, RedMonk, strategy at Dell, my work at 451 Research , or Pivotal. And the Twitters!

Consumer IT Resets the Baseline for Corporate IT

Consumer IT Resets the Baseline for Corporate IT

By Michael Coté on August 28, 2011

In moving to a BigCo job you quickly notice how different life behind the firewall is when it comes to IT. You’re often more limited than empowered. The advances in consumer IT (things like Facebook and GMail) often have created better IT than corporations provide their employees. For well over a decade, corporate IT has […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Consumer, consumer IT, corporate it, dropbox, EI, Evernote, Facebook, gmail, IT, Risk management

Imperfect substitutes

Imperfect substitutes

By Michael Coté on August 21, 2011

HP’s PDAs and phones never received management attention. How do I know? Because they relied on off-the-shelf components for everything including software. It indicated that the value to be offered was in “leveraging” (there’s that word again) their brand and distribution. The value of HP was not to build something great–something that required blood, sweat […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged android, apple, Facebook, google, Hewlett-Packard, hp, iPad, Open source, webos

Go Droid - Google Buying Motorola

Go Droid – Google Buying Motorola

By Michael Coté on August 16, 2011

Clearly, Google is after patent protection in buying Motorola, and they said as much. This leads many to think they’ll sell off the actual hardware assets. That’d be safe and status quo: Google doesn’t make hardware (aside from a couple appliance…

Posted in Business | Tagged android, apple, Dodgeball, google, motorola

Leaving RedMonk

Leaving RedMonk

By Michael Coté on July 24, 2011

As Stephen posted earlier this afternoon, I’ll be leaving RedMonk at the end of next week. Working with RedMonk has been easily the best job I’ve had: the trust and mentoring James and Stephen have given me over the years has been more than I could have imagined, and the actual work has been great. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Dell, redmonk, The Analyst Life

Citrix buys Cloud.com – Brief Note

Citrix buys Cloud.com – Brief Note

By Michael Coté on July 12, 2011

Citrix announced the acquisition of Cloud.com this morning hoping to flesh out its long-running cloud road-map. This Brief Note covers what this means for Citrix and provides some background. Summary There’s some clear motivations for Citrix: Filling whitespace – Citrix has long spoken about cloud computing, but they’ve yet to make a big splash on […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud, cloud.com Citrix, Companies, enterprise software, M&A, Open source, OpenStack, Private Cloud, Systems Management

Despite much hope, PaaS momentum hasn’t blown the doors off yet

Despite much hope, PaaS momentum hasn’t blown the doors off yet

By Michael Coté on July 5, 2011

Touted at the next thing in cloud, Platform as a Service is receiving much attention now. While PaaS has been far from a failure, it hasn’t been a mega success…yet. I’ve been talking with several people about Platform as a Service use recently: with all the vendors (and us analysts as well!) going on about […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Numbers, PaaS, Programming, The New Thing

The Googlebot Wants Everything – #io2011 Trip Report

The Googlebot Wants Everything – #io2011 Trip Report

By Michael Coté on May 23, 2011

At the recent Google I/O 2011, the search giant unleashed itself into almost every nook and cranny of IT, consumer and “enterprise.” This positions them against pretty much every vendor out there, and with their billions in money from advertising, they’re like a wealthy but aloof giant that seems to have unlimited resources, just waiting […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged app engine, chrome, Chromebook, Cloud, conferences, developer relations, devrel, google, io2011, Programming, samsung, Trip Report

Growing Dell – #SSVE Trip Report

Growing Dell – #SSVE Trip Report

By Michael Coté on May 19, 2011

Dell held an analyst event in Austin a couple weeks ago (titled “Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era”, or SSVE), coming out strong with its message of transformation and growth via an expansion in the general “enterprise IT” space. This was primarily based on two, traditionally non-Dell lines of business. The Growth Plan Our […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged conferences, Dell, enterprise software, ideas, marketing, Quick Analysis, SSVE, Systems Management

Image credit: Adam Debreczeni

It’s a good time to be a software developer

By Michael Coté on May 16, 2011

“The exciting convergence of technology consumption and production models” is the topic of the next book Vinnie Mirchandani is working on (his last book had a good, optimistic take on the need for innovation). He recently asked about the role of developers in all that soup – at least I think that’s what he asked. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, enterprise software, ideas, Programming, Vinnie Mirchandani

Dell on the path to being more enterprise-y – Day One of the Dell Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era Analyst Event

Dell on the path to being more enterprise-y – Day One of the Dell Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era Analyst Event

By Michael Coté on May 5, 2011

Yesterday was the first day of the Dell Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era analyst event, nicely for me, in Austin. While there’s a well known consumer and server side to Dell, much of their future-looking life tied up on growing their “enterprise” credentials and offerings. Rather than just selling hardware, Dell wants to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Dell, enterprise, solutions, SSVE, The Analyst Life, verticals

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