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Finger Marketing, or is it Digital Marketing? The digital prefix makes no sense. Read More
Finger Marketing, or is it Digital Marketing? The digital prefix makes no sense. Read More
Justin Warren talks to Scott Dietzen, CEO of Pure Storage, at Pure’s 2016 //Accelerate conference. Read More
Justin talks to Brian Lille, Global CIO of Equinix, about cloud computing, DevOps, and what it takes to be a modern CIO. Read More
Justin talks to Greg Knieriemen from HDS about how analysts shape the market, and how customers make decisions about which product to buy. Read More
Much is being made of DevOps of late, and I’ve been doing a lot of work with clients in this area. What amuses me greatly is how little things have changed in the past several decades. This post by eBay cloud architect Subbu Allamaraju highlights a central struggle of IT: how… Read More
SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) continues to be popular for some reason, and it’s great, because it gives me a very fast way to figure out that someone doesn’t know what they’re doing. It saves me time, and that’s lovely. SWOT is conceptually simple to understand, which is also… Read More
My strategy professor in business school had an amusing phrase to describe companies who take on too much external funding. He said they had an “OPM” problem: Other People’s Money. The issue with taking Other People’s Money is that, usually, they want it back. With interest. It’s basically how the… Read More
Clearly I’ve done something to anger the gods of travel, somehow. Or just been unlucky. Specifically, it was probably some sort of wind god—maybe Njord, or perhaps Aeolus—because it was so windy in Sydney on Monday that the airport was only using one runway. The Qantas pilot did a wonderful… Read More
Last week we saw Amazon break out their AWS numbers as a separate segment for the first time, so of course, the entire tech press lost their collective minds and wrote reams about it. It’s bigger than we thought! It’s smaller than we thought! They have margin! OMG. I’ve previously… Read More
I’ve had to write this email multiple times now, so, taking my own advice, I’ll write it as a blog and then I can just send the link to people. As can you! Vendors, particularly storage vendors, like to say Quality of Service when they mean priority throttling, and they… Read More