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On code, purpose, meaning and poetry at IBM Impact
Tweet These days IBM’s Impact Conference is as much about sales as education, but one of the things it sells is ideas, and ideas can change the world. The first and last main tent keynotes contained...
View ArticleYou should watch this video: RedMonk’s developer philosophy, wrapped in humour.
Tweet Last week I was at IBM Impact (see my first take here). Wednesday evening we filmed this preview of the developer unconference on Thursday – which ranged pretty widely and encapsulated a lot of...
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Chromebook/Notebook/Tablet As A Service. On Google Competing With IBM Global...
Tweet So a lot of smart people have already written up the news from Google I/O this week – notably our very own Stephen O’Grady in a piece entitled Google I/O: The Android Story. So I decided to look...
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Software AG acquires Terracotta, makes open source developer play, gears up...
Tweet I have written about Software AG before – namely after the German firm announced it was acquiring process modeling firm IDS Scheer. Software AG is not exactly a household name, well except in...
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IDE as a service: DaaS hawt! and some Enterprise OpenSocial thawt
Tweet I was chatting to Atlassian founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes recently when I asked him what comes next. You know… the “plastics” question. It was Mike that first turned me on to OpenSocial’s...
View ArticleOn Cloud Certification: EMC vs IBM
Tweet Generally I prefer to avoid vendor spitting matches. If a company claims to have won a thousand customers from their arch-rival in a quarter, its funny how they haven’t counted the losses. Its...
View ArticleBig Blue winning: why IBM, HP, Oracle get so excited about the Systems and...
Tweet I have been watching the Systems market since 1995. In that time I have seen some fairly dramatic changes in terms of infrastructure choices. Given its now 2011, however, more than three decades...
View ArticleB2C Social Analytics: Capturing “Moments of Truth”
Tweet I presented at ActuateOne Live, a customer event for the company behind BIRT, last week. The subject of my talk was Analytics and Data Science: the breaking wave. My key argument is that...
View ArticleOpinionated Infrastructure, Convention over Configuration, Rails, IoS and...
Tweet If you want to make video people will share you have to try and keep things short and sweet, which is why me and my video guy Benny Crime decided to turn one long take into a few shorter ones....
View ArticleOpinionated Infrastructure: Searching for Hadoop, The Money Counter Episode
Tweet Hadoop is an extremely powerful platform for certain data management tasks, counting and sorting huge amounts of data, notably from unstructured data sources. The entire database and analytics...
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So what even is a Service Mesh? Hot take on Istio and Linkerd
Remember that time, when we used to blithely use Docker and microservices interchangeably? Docker has proved to be excellent in simplifying dev and test workflows, while Kubernetes has emerged as a...
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Docker and Kubernetes for On Prem Simplicity – Download and Go.
I just got back from an IBM update on its analytics business. One of the core themes was simplicity. As we all know enterprise products generally, and IBM products specifically, are not known for...
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Spring Boot and the Peloton
So Spring Boot goes from strength to strength. At RedMonk we’re pretty sceptical of downloads an an indicator of technology attention or adoption – in the age of automated builds, pulling down system...
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So about this Dell digital transformation story. Pivots.
RedMonk is on the record that Pivotal has created a unique position for itself in driving digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies. No other vendor has made a similar impact on software quality...
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Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat
Today I attended Red Hat’s European analyst day at the Tate Modern art gallery. Here are some of thoughts based on what I heard. So it turns out Red Hat is pretty good at being Red Hat. By that I mean...
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Recent cloud revenue statements and share price hikes
Tracking cloud revenue numbers at major vendors is hard. As ever, financial reporting, for all its supposed rigour, can hide as much as it reveals, depending how and where things are reported. But one...
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