No more tin ear. Google plays the game
In my twenties I was hard work: I was too clever by half. I questioned everything. I had problems with authority. I made things harder for myself and others than I needed to, or should have done. Hopefully I have mellowed a bit, but these characteristics certainly defined me then. One of my bosses, a […]
The Best Big Data Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2018
Employees would most recommend Dataiku, StreamSets, 1010 Data, Reltio, Looker, SAP, Google, Salesforce, Tamr, DataRobot, Domo, Microsoft, Qubole, Attivio and Informatica to friends interested in working for business analytics, data science and machine learning, big data systems and platforms, or data management and integration company in 2018. These 15 companies are the highest rated in their fields of expertise as defined by Computer Reseller News as of May 11, 2018. Nine out of 10 […]
Digital Transformation Digest: Mobile World Congress and 5G, Samsung Galaxy S9 and Google Assistant Gets A Boost
All Eyes On Mobile World Congress and 5G The annual Mobile World Congress #MWC18 kicked off Monday in Barcelona with the 5G standard front and center in all discussions. With the main 5G architectural standards agreed upon by 3GPP in December 2017, the industry gains a service based architecture, common core network, network slicing, […]
Event Report: Microsoft Biz Apps Analyst Day Highlights Strategic Transformation #MSBizApps
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Seeks End To End Coverage Of Business Apps On February 10th to 12th, 2018, industry analysts converged onto Building 92 at the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, WA, for an update on the Microsoft Business Applications. The Business Applications Analyst Forum was hosted by key executives including: Source: © 2018 R Wang […]
By 2020 83% Of Enterprise Workloads Will Be In The Cloud
Digitally transforming enterprises (63%) is the leading factor driving greater public cloud computing engagement or adoption today. 66% of IT professionals say security is their most significant concern in adopting an enterprise cloud computing strategy. 50% of IT professionals believe artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing a role in cloud computing adoption today, growing […]
The Best Software Companies To Work For In 2018, According To Glassdoor
62% of all employees working for Software 500 companies would recommend their company to a friend, up from 61% in 2015. 76% of all employees working for Software 500 companies approve of their CEO today, up from 73% in 2015. Aconex Limited, The Trade Desk Inc. (NASDAQ: TTD), HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS), Talentica Software, Wix.com Ltd( (NASDAQ: WIX), Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), SAP AG ( NYSE: SAP), The […]
europe-west-2
Check out the optics- there is literally nothing more British than Scalextric – 60 years old this year – except perhaps mince on toast (weird meme that one). So Google today launched its London-based data center today. While not exactly a tightly held secret beforehand, the news was welcome. Google is making a significant […]
Spring Boot and the Peloton
So Spring Boot goes from strength to strength. At RedMonk we’re pretty sceptical of downloads an an indicator of technology attention or adoption – in the age of automated builds, pulling down system images, they can be rather deceptive. But there are some other metrics to consider. In looking at the GitHub landscape for Java […]
So what even is a Service Mesh? Hot take on Istio and Linkerd
Remember that time, when we used to blithely use Docker and microservices interchangeably? Docker has proved to be excellent in simplifying dev and test workflows, while Kubernetes has emerged as a strong alternative center of gravity for deployment of container-based apps. But it’s still early days in terms of production deployment of container based […]
That giant sucking sound? Hadoop moving into the cloud
Hadoop was born in the cloud, as a big data project designed to take advantage of Yahoo’s infrastructure, based on a paper from Google about the map/reduce algorithm. It was never originally designed for on prem enterprise deployment. I recently wrote that some of the issues with Hadoop adoption are cultural, but management overheads […]
