“The Decoded Company” There’s a schtick here – Mr. Segal is selling a book. But many IT shops today know they need to make a dramatic change in how they do business. “Managing people by spreadsheets” isn’t going to work anymore. To get to the next level, it’s up to […]
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It’s been a few weeks since Microsoft(s msft) named Satya Nadella as its new CEO. Now the reverbs are starting. Julie Larson-Green has a new job, chief experience officer, which is a demotion. In the big “One Microsoft” reorg last summer, Larson-Green was heading up all Microsoft hardware efforts…
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Hortonworks’ strategy of riding its channel partners to commercial success took a seemingly big step forward on Monday with the announcement of a new strategic partnership with Red Hat(s rhat). Under the new alliance, the two companies are integrating the Hortonworks Data Platform, its suite of…
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Distributed In-kernel (stateful) Firewalls in VMware NSX for vSphere Short description + link to NSX architecture video discussing the challenges of VMware firewalling today.
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Radical innovation has historically overcome barriers to scientific progress. For example, the discovery of pi as a numerical concept found application in mathematics, physics, signal and image processing, genomics and across domains. Similarly, the internet unleashed innovation across industries. Today, the computing world stands at a…
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For the last few weeks, an interesting and timely debate has been brewing among the technology press and various technology vendors and users about whether or not platform as a service, or PaaS, will survive as an independent cloud computing service category. NetworkWorld’s Brandon Butler asked…
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It will be interesting to see how the x86 server platform does on its own. I know for many large customers, they appreciated IBM’s technical innovations as well as the bargaining power available to them given their investment in zSeries and the Power platform. If Lenovo can’t bring that bargaining […]
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Privacy based Smartphone from the man behind PGP This is the beginning of something interesting I think. A smartphone from a well respected team of technologists, led by Phil Zimmerman, the man behind PGP. They’ve built a phone focused on security and privacy, ensuring that your data and meta data […]
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