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What’s the hold-up with Nutanix’s IPO? | #NEXTConf
With strong opinions and a penchant for adventure, Nutanix, Inc. CEO shares the details behind his decision to shelve an IPO. In Silicon Valley, business plans are like screenplays in LA — everyone has one. But the world is mostly followers, and to break ground and introduce something new and valuable to the market, you ...
Back to the future: How do you bring an old company into the new IT era? | #DockerCon
With entire companies being founded in and operated from the public cloud, using all-digital Software-as-a-Service, an established company can start to feel like a lame duck. Will a new disruptive innovation come in and make them obsolete any day? Luckily for the older companies, along with their years of experience and name recognition, there are ...
Friends and foes: Where is the DevOps synergy taking us? | #DockerCon
To gauge the growth of the Docker software containerization platform’s popularity in the development community, look at attendance to the three DockerCon events that have happened so far. The first event two years ago hosted 200 attendees. The second event drew a crowd of 2,000. This year, 4,100 people attended DockerCon. Docker, Inc. has successfully democratized ...
Currency exchange: Docker trades on speed in the IT marketplace| #DockerCon
What you may not know about container technology is that it’s been around for decades. However, in its raw form, it was too complicated for all but a few highly skilled developers to utilize. Docker, Inc. didn’t invent containers; it democratized their use so that now even novice developers can build impressive applications quickly. Suffice to ...
The race to revenue: How will Docker pull ahead in profitability? | #DockerCon
Open source can be a great avenue through which to enter the IT stage. If the first protocol of developing a fantastic tool is “Get it to market,” open source easily provides the fastest route. The user feedback is like a massive pool of developers and engineers pointing out bugs and polishing features for you ...
Can this company give storage the legs it needs in the Big Data era? | #DockerCon
Just when you think something in IT is stable or static, the winds of change blow in and shake things up. Just a few years ago, people in the industry said that storage was stable, because businesses were scared to mess around with it or move it around. Then Big Data and cloud catalyzed both ...
Two sides of the coin: Docker’s ‘coopetition’ ecosystem | #DockerCon
A relationship that is equal parts competition and cooperation is tenuous enough when the companies involved both have established identities and know where they stand. When the commodity or technology in question is in its infancy, the relationship could morph into something else at any moment. Container technologies are white hot but still quite new, ...
The next frontier: Lenovo’s strategy for navigating the networking unknown | #LenovoTechWorld
Disaggregating is a big theme in IT these days. Some companies are moving the bulk of their data centers off-prem. It all amounts to a lot of dots to connect in order to keep things running smoothly. This is why some see networking as the next area of IT ripe for disruption and innovation. “You ...
Are we approaching virtualization of the entire data center? | #LenovoTechWorld
In IT, there are right ways and wrong ways to partner. Beware the “Barney partnership” — a figurative handshake between companies that doesn’t actually produce anything. For “coopetition” to be productive, it needs to be more than a truce between companies — they need to be actively invested in each others’ success. Brian Connors, VP ...
Blurred lines: A consumer tech company’s venture into enterprise | #LenovoTechWorld
SAP SE’s partnership with Apple generated a lot of buzz about how the companies were going to bring the experience Apple consumers know and love to the enterprise space. Indeed, there is clearly a melding of the consumer and enterprise tech worlds taking place. Now Lenovo Group Ltd., a large established company most famous for ...
