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  • App Think Tank: Cloud vs. hyperscale

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    This is the final video clip from the Dell Services Application think tank held earlier this year.  Today’s clip features the always enlightening and entertaining Jimmy Pike.  Jimmy, who is a Senior Fellow at Dell and was once called the Willy Wonka of servers, was one of the 10 panelists at the Think Tank where we discussed the challenges of…

  • App Think Tank: Intel IT turns apps into services

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    Today, Das Kamhout,  IT Principal Engineer at Intel and their lead cloud architect talks about Intel IT’s program to make all of their traditional applications into services.  (This video was taken from the  Application think tank that Dell Services held back in January.) The world is turning to services.  As Das points out, after you rationalize your application portfolio you want…

  • App Think Tank: Key application policies at Intel and American Cancer Society

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    This week’s theme is applications and software strategy and yesterday’s post dealt with the value of  going “open source”all the way” from start-ups to large enterprises.  Today we’re taking a look at the major guidelines that two large organizations have put in place for all applications being developed. Take a listen to Das Kamhout,  IT Principal Engineer at Intel…

  • App Think Tank: Open Source all the way

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    This week I’m continuing with the video series from our Application think tank earlier this year.  The videos this week are centered around the topic of applications and software strategy: what should your foundation be, what should your strategy be going forward and how do you deal with what you have. To kick this topic off,…

  • App Think Tank: The skills and people IT needs most

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    Yesterday I featured the first of three videos that tackle the topic — the skills CIOs and IT need for success.  Today’s video features Ranga Jayaraman, Associate Dean and CIO of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. Ranga responds to the question, how would you set up your IT environment today if you had the luxury of…

  • App Think Tank: What a CIO must do

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    A couple months ago Dell Services held a think tank out in Silicon Valley at the venture firm, NEA.  We had 10 panelists representing both old school and new school organizations, both big and small:  Intel, Safeway, American Cancer Society, Puppet Labs, NGINX, Stormpath, Stanford Business School, 451 Research and TechCrunch (check out the complete list of…

  • App Think Tank: The Web Of C-Level Relationships

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    Here is the last in a series of videos from the Dell Services Think Tank. During the event’s first session I posed the question —  given the chance, how would you set up it for the CIO, CMO, business and developers to work together? NGINX tech evangelist, Sarah Novotny jumped right in, having had a chance…

  • App Think Tank: The persistently, ubiquitously connected to the network era

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    The third short video from the Dell Services Think Tank features the always enlightening and entertaining Jimmy Pike.  Jimmy, who is a Senior Fellow at Dell and was once called the Willy Wonka of servers, was one of the 10 panelists at the Think Tank where we discussed the challenges of the new app-centric world. In this clip…

  • App Think Tank: What do customers expect

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    The week before last, Dell Services held a think tank in Silicon Valley with 10 panelists representing both old school and new school organizations.   The group discussed the challenges of the new app-centric world as well as how to leverage both the “Four horsemen of IT du jour”: Cloud, Mobile, Social and Big Data, and…

  • App Think Tank – Some take aways

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    The week before last Dell Services held a think tank out in Silicon Valley at the venture firm, NEA.  We had 10 panelists representing both old school and new school organizations:  Intel, Safeway, American Cancer Society, Puppet Labs, NGINX, Stormpath, Stanford Business School, 451 Research and TechCrunch (see complete list of participants below).  I had…

  • “New Age of Apps” Think Tank to be streamed Live

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    On Thursday, January 23 Dell services will be hosting a think tank in Silicon Valley at the venture capital firm NEA.  While hosted in the Bay Area, the event will be streamed live for viewing around the world. The title of the Think Tank is “The new age of apps and delivery gaps” and we…