Mesosphere + DataStax + Confluent + Lightbend = Container 2.0… But is it complicated?
Last week Mesosphere announced a number of strategic partnerships that comprise a comprehensive ecosystem and spearhead its initiative for what it calls Container 2.0. We take a look at what this means for the industry.
Read More →An analyst’s life: from Gigaom and Big Data to VisionMobile and Developer Economics and..Big Developer Data
The last post in this blog, a year ago, was about Hadoop security. We had just finished our latest webcast with Gigaom on the different options for managing Hadoop and were looking ahead to a number of prospects, including a Sector Roadmap on SaaS BI to be unveiled at Structure:Data 2015. Much water has flowed […]
Read More →WSO2: Open Source Enterprise Application Integration in the Cloud
WSO2 is a notable Enterprise Application Integration & Cloud vendor. They are notable not just because of what they do, but also because of how they do it. WSO2 offers an integrated platform featuring an Enterprise Service Bus and solutions that span Identity, Governance, Business Process Management, API Management, Big Data Analytics and Cloud. And […]
Read More →Data Modeling for APIs. Part 5: Modeling vs. Meta-Modeling
Recently i was involved the creation of a data model for a project in the Energy domain. As this was an international, multi-partner project with many stakeholders and respective components, a dillema emerged for debate: to model, or to meta-model? We use this occassion as an example to mention the pros and cons for each […]
Read More →The wrong strategy, the wrong way: cold-calling your way to marketing, technical and business failure
Do you think cold-calling still works? Trying to sell random stuff to random people on the phone is not exactly the most unobtrusive, effective or sophisticated strategy. It’s the kind of thing I would expect and advise especially technology companies to stay away from, for a number of reasons. This is an account of the […]
Read More →Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 3: Changes Going Forward and Analytics
In the 3rd and concluding part of this series of posts on Gigaom’s webinar on Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization, sponsored by Akamai, the last items in the webinar agenda are covered: changes going forward and the impact on analytics and BI. The webinar (now available on Vimeo and […]
Read More →Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 2: Impact and Delivery Enhancements
Picking up from where we left off on the topics discussed in Gigaom webinar titled Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization, sponsored by Akamai, this week we cover the impact of consumerization, globalization, and mobility on application delivery and the prioritization of potential delivery enhancements. The webinar addressed the following […]
Read More →Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization. Part 1: Application Delivery Landscape
Last week i had the chance to participate as a panelist in a Gigaom webinar titled Global and Mobile App Delivery in the Age of IT Consumerization, sponsored by Akamai. It was an interesting discussion, as it covered the topic from the points of view of the network and the data center, application development and […]
Read More →Unlikely PaaS alliances, strange offerings, and variable gauges
Recently we’ve seen developments in PaaS offerings that may strike some as odd or surprising: first, RedHat offers Microsoft .Net and SQL Server as cloud services, and then Microsoft offers Oracle’s flagship database, WebLogic Server middleware and Java on its Azure platform as “license-included virtual machine images” in the Windows Azure Image Gallery. What’s this […]
Read More →On APIs, JSON, Linked Data, attitude and opportunities
I’ve been meaning to revisit some of the things i’ve been writing about and getting feedback on lately – APIs, the JSON vs. XML “non” debate and Linked Data. My focus was going to be on JSON-LD as the low-hanging fruit of Linked Data, and this week some news came out that gave me the […]
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