Oracles streak of missed opportunities
No, this does not have much to do with Oracle’s recent quarter. Nor is it about intrigue and gossip so many analysts use to compare Oracle to the Trumpian White House. It has more to do with two decades of enterprise tech I have researched as I write SAP Nation 3.0. It is striking how […]
The Quickening: a keynote about software development velocity at New Relic’s Futurestack 2018 Conference
This week I gave a keynote at New Relic’s FutureStack conference in SF. Isaac Eldridge did a great write up here – 10 Thoughts on Modern Software from RedMonk’s James Governor. You really need to read his post. Here is my own summary though: Everything is accelerating in business, and the stakes are higher than ever. […]
Barely a third of outsourcing deals are now safe: Window-dressing legacy engagements is over
We’ve been talking about the legacy model of butts-on-seats “mess for less” outsourcing fizzling out for years, but somehow the same old candidates have clung on grimly to the same old model, relying on clients that still find a modicum of comfort negotiating rate cards down to the lowest common denominator, content to hobble along […]
58% Of All Healthcare Breaches Are Initiated By Insiders
58% of healthcare systems breach attempts involve inside actors, which makes this the leading industry for insider threats today. Ransomware leads all malicious code categories, responsible for 70% of breach attempt incidents. Stealing laptops from medical professionals’ cars to obtain privileged access credentials to gain access and install malware on healthcare networks, exfiltrate valuable data […]
Google Needs To Make Machine Learning Their Growth Fuel
In 2017 Google outspent Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook on R&D spending with the majority being on AI and machine learning. One of the company’s initial forays into AI and machine learning was its $600M acquisition of AI startup DeepMind in January 2014. Google needs new AI- and machine learning-driven businesses that have lower Total Acquisition […]
What All Companies Can Learn from Pluralsight’s Massively Successful IPO
By nearly every measure — stock appreciation, brand awareness, business execution — Pluralsight’s IPO and subsequent first quarter results were nothing less than spectacular. Just look at the numbers…the stock is up 120% since going public on May 17, the company trades at over 20x revenues (nearly double the multiple of the mighty Workday), and […]
Identities Are The New Security Perimeter
18% of healthcare employees are willing to sell confidential data to unauthorized parties for as little as $500 to $1,000, and 24% of employees know of someone who has sold privileged credentials to outsiders, according to a recent Accenture survey. Privileged credentials for accessing an airport’s security system were recently for sale on the Dark Web […]
Glassdoor’s 10 Highest Paying Tech Jobs Of 2018
Software Engineering Manager is the highest paying position with an average salary of $163,500 with 31,621 open positions on Glassdoor today. Over 368,000 open positions are available across the 10 highest paying jobs on Glassdoor today. $147,000 is the average salary of the top 10 tech jobs on Glassdoor today. 12.7% of all open positions […]
IoT Market Predicted To Double By 2021, Reaching $520B
Bain predicts the combined markets of the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow to about $520B in 2021, more than double the $235B spent in 2017. Data center and analytics will be the fastest growing IoT segment, reaching a 50% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) from 2017 to 2021. IoT customers are planning and executing […]
Who will claim the Enterprise Western Frontier?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 28, 2018
This summer while researching for SAP Nation 3.0, I have also been reading plenty about the young nation of the US in the 1800s. The comparisons to the enterprise vendor market, two centuries later, in the 2000s are striking. In 2000, enterprise vendors had many reasons to feel good about themselves. The Y2K challenge had […]
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