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Do You Have The Data Agility Your Business Needs?

YoungUpstarts

If companies are to thrive in a data-driven economy, they can’t afford to be handcuffed to ‘old’ technologies; they need the flexibility and agility to move at a moment’s notice to the latest market innovations. How can your company meet the agility imperative? Integration Approaches for Data Agility. Agile Data Fabric.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

Nadella got Microsoft organized around mobile and the cloud (Azure), freed the Office and Azure teams from Windows, killed the phone business and got a major release of Windows out without the usual trauma. In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

The Pivotal Story and Digital Transformation If you are looking for a story about how large enterprises digitally transform themselves into agile software organizations (to the extent they can), then I suggest reading Pivotals recently filed S-1 on Friday. Their growth to over $509mm of revenue from $281mm 2 years ago is a case in point.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Windows Mobile has been a disappointment to date but Azure (an outgrowth of the.NET framework) is growing as a force on the cloud/server side. If you think about software platforms in the last 20 years a few stand out. Microsoft has two huge ones in the Windows OS and Xbox.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

If you are looking for a story about how large enterprises digitally transform themselves into agile software organizations (to the extent they can), then I suggest reading Pivotal’s recently filed S-1 on Friday. Their ascent over the last 5 years mirrors many of the trends we are hearing about on a daily basis; cloud in all forms?—?public,

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A framework for categorizing and comparing cloud platforms

bijoor.me

Agile Development. Virtual Machines : pool resources of many different servers, thereby creating a virtual layer that offers automatic load balancing and higher levels of availability than the underlying hardware can offer Examples : Amazon EC2 , OpenStack Nova , MS Windows Azure , Google Compute Engine , IBM SmartCloud. Technology.