May the 4th be with you
We break from our normal programming to bring you a warning from the Empire about May the 4th, Star Wars day.
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Author Archives: Giri Fox
Notes from keynote at Cloud Inspire, Seoul
I’m delivering the keynote talk at SK Telecom’s Cloud Inspire event in Seoul, and in preparing my talk about hybrid clouds I reviewed many sources. For those wanting more detail, I have put together some notes below. Research on cloud … Continue reading
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Roll your own “enterprise” hardware
Not long ago, I found an article talking about how Google is Intel’s fifth largest customer for server chips. I thought it was a brilliant barometer of the disruption that cloud computing is making to the traditional enterprise hardware providers, … Continue reading
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Noisy neighbours in cloud computing
Noisy Neighbours is the current term to describe an age-old phenomena when many users share a medium, in this case with cloud computing it’s sharing CPU, storage and networking. In IP networking, one solution is Quality of Service (QoS) which … Continue reading
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Intel provides view into cloud shift
Yesterday’s fascinating article in Wired says that Google is now Intel’s fifth largest client for server chips. In 2008, this Intel division had 75% of its sales to IBM, Dell and HP. Five years later, the same 75% is spread … Continue reading
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Setting up a cloud server using RightScale
RightScale is a cloud computing management pane, which can handle AWS, Rackpace, Softlayer and other IaaS providers plus private clouds from Eucalyptus, OpenStack and CloudStack. I know it’s awesome, because of its abstraction and capability, but I haven’t used it … Continue reading
Considering the Agile philosophy within deal pursuits
I have been reading about Agile software development philosophy for years and it seems that the core ideas are worth exploring in relation to major deal pursuits. I think I first came across Agile thinking in about 1999, in the … Continue reading
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Six reasons major sales initiatives fail
We’ve all seen a major sales initiative that fails to deliver the results expected, for example from a sales force restructure. But what’s the root cause of the failure? Here I will explore the reasons hidden in the background and … Continue reading
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On the strategy of platforms and APIs
I’m going to draw a picture about a constellation of news on the importance of platforms in: cloud computing, competitive strategy recruitment incentive. Read all of these and you’ll see the pattern. Profound gifts to the open source LinkedIn open … Continue reading
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On introversion
I am so happy about the recent publicity on introversion. I’m an introvert, and am aware of how to get the best out of myself. I’m not shy – that’s a common misunderstanding – but I prefer the inner world … Continue reading
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