Tag: michael cote
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Digital Transformation: The Perils and the Keys to Success
The week before last Dell EMC held its first Dell EMC World here in Austin. The event was full of keynotes, breakouts and Dell EMC and partner booths. On the expo floor a stage was set up where partners and various Dell EMC employees, from Michael Dell on down, were interviewed as a part of…
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Of Linux Laptops, Open Source and Hawaiian Food
In the last two weeks I’ve had the opportunity to participate in two podcasts. The first was the wild and wacky Lunduke & Whatnot (with Matt) show where System76 founder CEO, Carl Richell and I talked with our hosts about pre-loaded Linux laptops. In the second, which was recorded last week at SpringOne platform, Michael Cote hosts…
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The coming donkey apocalypse — DevOps Days Austin
After a bit of a gap I’m continuing the my series from DevOps Days Austin. After Damon Edwards kicked off the event, Michael Cote of Pivotal took the stage. Cote presented “The coming donkey apocalypse — what happens when Devops goes mainstream.” Take a listen (you can find his slides below): Some of the ground that Cote covers:…
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Findings from 451’s DevOps study — DevOps Days Austin
Today we come to the final interview from DevOps Days Austin. I began the series with an interview with Andrew Clay Shafer who gave the first-day keynote. Today I close, with perfect symmetry, with Michael Cote of 451 Research, who gave the keynote on the second day. In his keynote, posted below, Cote presented findings from a study…
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Whitepaper: Learning from Web Companies to drive Innovation
Today I finally get to debut a white paper that Michael Cote, now of the 451 Research, and I started quite a while back: Learning from Web companies to drive Innovation – Embracing DevOps, Scale and Open Source Software The basic theme of the paper is that Web companies set the agenda for the IT…
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Ferreting out Innovation
If you’ve been following my tweets you may have heard about “Project Sputnik.” While I’m not quite ready to talk about it, I wanted to give some insight into the program that’s helped get it off the ground. Innovation Incubation At the beginning of the year Dell launched an internal incubation fund with the idea…
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SXSW: Our first developer Chill and Chat
This is the 26th year of the SXSW (South by Southwest), the annual music, film, and interactive conference. Everybody whose anybody, and even a few who aren’t, are here. Yesterday the 10-day event kicked off. As a company, Dell is a big participant and sponsor from panels, to music lounges, to an entrepreneur’s UnConference, to…
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Cote’s first 10 days at Dell
A few weeks ago Michael Cote joined Dell from the excellent analyst firm, Redmonk which focuses on software and developers. Cote who spent five plus years with Redmonk has joined Dell in our corporate strategy group, focusing on software. I for one am very glad he’s here and feel that he’s joined at the right…
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Dell’s Analyst Event – Summary of day 1 and feedback from Redmonk’s Michael Cote
Today at the W hotel in Austin, Dell held its bi-annual analyst summit. Today’s event is the third in a series of analyst functions organized around the theme “Services and Solutions for the Virtual Era.” The first event was held in San Francisco in March of last year and the second came six months later…
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Talking about Dell’s Cloud efforts
Last Friday I got together with Michael Cote of Red Monk and John Willis of Canonical for a podcast. We met up at a nearby coffee shop and chatted about a whole bunch o’ stuff. You can listen to the actual podcast on Cote’s blog. Some of the topics we tackle: What I’ll be doing…
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Pics and Prose from Cloud Camp Austin ’09
This past Saturday, Cloud Camp Austin was held down on the UT campus. There was a very healthy turnout and a lot of great discussions were generated. Sequence of Events After opening salutations, camp got underway with a series of six five-minute lightening talks delivered by the camp’s gold sponsors. The Main Event From there,…
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The Sassy part of the Cloud
These days when people describe cloud computing you’ll often hear them dividing it into three basic groups: Application Clouds (aka Software as a Service or SaaS) Platform Clouds (aka Platform as a Service or PaaS) Infrastructure Clouds (aka Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS) Besides self-interest (a cloud-based app helps me pay my bills), I…