James Governor
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Conversational IoT–’SUP?
Conversational IoT emerged strongly as a theme at our Thingmonk conference over the last couple of years – which is on again next week. Nick O’Leary gave a stellar talk on the subject in 2014, inspired by the work of Tom Coates. A lot of experimentation in the space happened on Twitter with tweeting objects […]
Spring Won Platform: the Big Switch just happened
Avoid Mayhem. Do programming. Since 2002 RedMonk has argued for the primacy of developers and practitioners in driving business advantage. We see ourselves as developer advocates as much as industry analysts. Our thesis concerns The New Kingmakers. Ten years ago we were outliers – not exactly a lone voice but definitely a rare one. Even […]
let’s hear it for the maintainers!
A couple of weeks back Anne Johnson pointed me at a new report from the Ford Foundation – “Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure.” Written by Nadia Egbhal the report examines the surprisingly unsupported foundations of much of the infrastructure we rely upon. “Nearly all software today relies on free, […]
developers are the new bankmakers – @getmondo
Last week we went to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit London. While we were there AWS set up a meeting with Mondo: “finally, a bank as smart as your phone”. Founder Tom Blomfield had given a short talk in the keynote – in which he said: “I am going to talk about building a bank […]
The serverless economy – why you should care about serverless
Tweet I recently helped out with the inaugural Serverless Conf, and gave the closing remarks. The event was held in a warehouse in Williamsburg, New York. Organiser Ant Stanley of ACloudGuru did a great job of organising his first conference. There are plenty of smarter people than me explaining what “serverless” is – Paul Johnston, […]
Auf Wiedersehen, Mate: Some Thoughts on the Tech-xit
@morisy @MarketplaceTech did a piece on it, but @monkchips would be my first stop — Laurel Ruma (@laurelatoreilly) June 29, 2016 Seeing as Laurel called me out- it’s basically double-edged swords all the way down. Yesterday I did some grief, but now i’m looking at acceptance. But politics is moving so fast right now it’s […]
On Geography, Cloud, and Data Governance
We’re seeing a significant shift in the Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service markets as the cloud becomes a global phenomenon, with enterprise adoption and regulatory pressures driving the need for better data governance and control. Cloud providers can no longer simply tell customers not to worry about where their data is […]
HPE breaking up to get lean
Breakin’ Up is Hard To Do, sang Neil Sedaka. It seems nobody told HPE. The company is clearly energised by its divestment strategy. Having already announced it would split into two businesses last year – HP Enterprise (servers, storage, services, systems) and HP, Inc (PCs and printers), HPE then recently surprised the market by announcing […]
On Google’s Cloud Posture. GCP Next 2016.
A couple of weeks ago I was in SF at Google Cloud Platform Next 2016, an event designed to show Google is serious about competing in the public cloud market against Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM SoftLayer. The market and even some Googlers have been questioning the firm’s commitment to cloud as a […]
Driving the state of the art. Cloud natives and the appliance of science
You aren’t going to want to miss this. Pleased to announce @pbailis as the next speaker @paperswelovebos on 4/21 https://t.co/xs5XMfQqgK — alex benik (@abenik) March 15, 2016 “Applied science is a discipline of science that applies existing scientific knowledge to develop more practical applications, like technology or inventions.” – Wikipedia. I was really pleased last week when Fintan […]
