by Lydia Leong | December 17, 2011 | Comments Off
A recent blog post on Forbes by Venkatesh Rao, The Rise of Developernomics, has ignited a lot of controversy around the concept that some developers are as much as 10x more productive than others. It’s not a new debate; the assertion that some developers are 20x more productive than others has been around forever, and [...]
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by Lydia Leong | December 1, 2011 | 1 Comment
All of us are used to going to travel sites, especially for airline tickets, and waiting a while for the appropriate results to be extracted and displayed to us. I recently saw Google Flight Search for the first time and was astonished by its raw speed — essentially completely instant. I frequently talk to customers [...]
Category: Industry Tags: CDN, Google, networking
by Lydia Leong | November 27, 2011 | Comments Off
As many people already know, Google is sunsetting Google Wave. This has led to Google sending an email to people who previously signed up for Wave. The bit in the email that caught my eye was this: If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache [...]
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by Lydia Leong | November 21, 2011 | 3 Comments
Developers who deeply understand the arcana of infrastructure, and operators who can code and understand the interaction of applications and infrastructure, are better than developers and operators who understand only their own discipline. But it’s typically easier, from the perspective of training, for a developer to learn operations, than for an operator to learn development. [...]
by Lydia Leong | November 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
A recent client inquiry of mine involved a very large enterprise, who informed me that their executives had decided that IT should become more like a cloud provider — like Google or Facebook or Amazon. They wanted to understand how they should transform their organization and their IT infrastructure in order to do this. There [...]
by Lydia Leong | November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
The fine folks at Nodeable gave me an informal introductory briefing today; they’ve got a pretty cool concept for a cloud-oriented monitoring and management SaaS-based tool that’s aimed at DevOps. I’ve been having stray thoughts on DevOps and the future of IT Operations in the couple of hours that have passed since then, and reflecting [...]
by Lydia Leong | October 7, 2011 | 4 Comments
Earlier this year, I was part of a team at Gartner that took a futuristic view of the data center, in a scenario-planning exercise. The results of that work have been published as The Future of the Data Center Market: Four Scenarios for Strategic Planning (Gartner clients only). My blog entries today are by my [...]
by Lydia Leong | October 7, 2011 | Comments Off
Earlier this year, I was part of a team at Gartner that took a futuristic view of the data center, in a scenario-planning exercise. The results of that work have been published as The Future of the Data Center Market: Four Scenarios for Strategic Planning (Gartner clients only). My blog entries today are by my [...]
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by Lydia Leong | August 26, 2011 | Comments Off
This is just a quick call-out to draw your attention to the research that I’ve published recently. Do You Have a Business Case for a Top-Level Domain? I blogged previously on this topic, and this research note, done with my colleague Ray Valdes (whose coverage includes online user experience), dives deeply into consideration of the [...]
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by Lydia Leong | August 15, 2011 | 7 Comments
I wrote, the other day, about Citrix buying Cloud.com, and I realized I forgot to make an important point about OpenStack versus the various commercial vendors vying for the cloud-building market; it’s worthy of a post on its own. OpenStack is designed by the community, which is to say that it’s largely designed by committee, [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Citrix, Cloud, open source, OpenStack
