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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

VMWare Cloud Foundry – Quick Analysis and Press Pass

VMWare Cloud Foundry – Quick Analysis and Press Pass

By Michael Coté on April 12, 2011

“We believe the current [platform clouds, such as Azure and App Engine] are incomplete,” [VMware senior director of cloud and application services Jerry] Chen says. “There is no one platform that is multi-cloud – private and public – and no one cloud is architected, out of the gate, to be extensible to many different frameworks […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, cloud development, Cloud Foundry, Cloud.com, CloudBees, enterprise software, Eucalyptus, GitHub, ibm, Java, microsoft, Open source, Press Pass, Quick Analysis, Rackspace Cloud, Red Hat, salesforce, Spring, SpringSource, The New Thing, VMware

Your very own OpenStack Cloud – Quick Analysis

Your very own OpenStack Cloud – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on March 8, 2011

Rackspace announces a support plan for OpenStack, while Dell, Rackspace, and Opscode announce an OpenStack installer for quick cloud building.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Chef, Cloud, Cloud Builders, Cloud Computing, Dell, Open source, OpenStack, OpsCode, Private Cloud, Quick Analysis, Rackspace, redmonk, support, Systems Management, The New Thing

Beyond Jeopardy! with IBM Watson – Quick Analysis

Beyond Jeopardy! with IBM Watson – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on February 18, 2011

Seeing a computer play two humans at Jeopardy! is a lot more entertaining than I thought it’d be. I’d been ignoring most of the hoopla around Watson figuring it for a big, effective PR campaign on IBM’s part. It is that for certain, and good on them for doing it. I’ve been more interested in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged AI, analytics, Big Data, Companies, enterprise software, ibm, ideas, Jeopardy, marketing, Open source, POWER7, Quick Analysis, The New Thing, Watson

10 things iPad rivals must do to compete with the Apple – Quick Analysis

10 things iPad rivals must do to compete with the Apple – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on February 9, 2011

If you’re going to compete against the might iPad, here’s 10 things you should do. Good luck storming the castle!

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Kindle, App Store, apple, differentiation, HP TouchPad, ideas, iOS, iPad, iPhone, marketing, mobile, Quick Analysis, tablet, The New Thing, webos, Windows Phone 7

Bob Muglia Leaving Microsoft – Quick Analysis

Bob Muglia Leaving Microsoft – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on January 10, 2011

(Above: Wordle tag cloud of Steve Ballmer’s letter on BobMu leaving.) Microsoft’s Bob Muglia is leaving Microsoft later this year, and he seems like the decision wasn’t entirely his, as CEO Steve Ballmer put it: “I have decided that now is the time to put new leadership in place for STB.” It’s always rash to […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Bob Muglia, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Companies, enterprise software, execs, microsoft, Quick Analysis, Steve Ballmer

SpringOne 2010 – the shody trip-report – Quick Analysis

SpringOne 2010 – the shody trip-report – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on October 21, 2010

Earlier this week, I was at VMWare’s SpringOne conference, covering announcements and new work from their SpringSource division. They launched an integrating cloud-based software development suite of tools, several technology partnerships with Google, and started to outline new integration needs from the social, mobile, and database world.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged ALM, Code2Cloud, conferences, Development Tools, enterprise software, Java, Open source, Quick Analysis, SaaS, SpringSource, tasktop

Liferay evolving beyond portals – the app server vacuum – Quick Analysis

Liferay evolving beyond portals – the app server vacuum – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on September 8, 2010

A new Liferay portal releases provides a good chance to ponder the state of runtimes in the Java world.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged conferences, Java, Liferay, portals, Quick Analysis, stackless stack

Confused about Intel Buying McAfee? – Quick Analysis

Confused about Intel Buying McAfee? – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on August 19, 2010

Trying to figure out Intel buying McAfee.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud, intel, McAfee, Mergers & Acquisitions, Quick Analysis

Adobe buying Day – Quick Analysis

Adobe buying Day – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on July 29, 2010

Adobe announced it was buying Day Software today, filling in a portfolio hole with Day’s web-driven content management technology and looking towards web-driven business.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged adobe, Day, enterprise software, M&A, Quick Analysis

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