Jon Collins
GigaOM
United Kingdom
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GigaOm Infographic: Connectivity and Customer Experience
How can businesses use connectivity to drive improved CX for their customer? GigaOm asked 350+ strategic enterprise decision-makers from North America and Europe to share their experiences. Check out the infographic below and then read the full Research Byte here. → Read More
On Value Stream Management in DevOps, and Seeing Problems as Solutions
You know that thing when a term emerges and you kind of get what it means, but you think you’d better read up on it to be sure? Well, so it was for me with Value Stream Management, as applied to agile development in general and DevOps in particular. So, I have done some reading up. Typically, there seems to be some disagreement around what the phrase means. A cursory Google of “value stream… → Read More
Could DevOps Exist Without Cloud Models?
The GigaOm DevOps market landscape report is nearing completion, distilling conversations and briefings into a mere 8,500 word narrative. Yes, it’s big, but it could have been bigger, for the simple reason that DevOps touches, and is therefore helped and hindered by, every aspect of IT and indeed, the broader business. Security and governance, service level delivery, customer experience, API and… → Read More
Five steps to delivering DevOps at scale
So, you’re thinking of taking DevOps out of the relatively safe, yet challenging environment of the controlled initiative, and into the far less safe, and even more challenging environment of the broader enterprise? While, “if you want get there, don’t start from here,” may be a familiar adage, most organisations have little choice but to take what they have (in terms of strategy and… → Read More
UK tax authorities Make Tax Digital, whether businesses want it or not
In a changing world, it is good to know that some certainties remain, such as when companies log their affairs and give up to Caesar what is due to Caesar, that is, pay their tax. In the UK at least, even this constant is under fire. I’m speaking tongue in cheek of course, but the government’s Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative is proving troubling to more than a few businesses. On the upside,… → Read More
Seven lessons from writing the report, Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise
Over the past couple of months I’ve been collating a report about DevOps, which I hope to be out in August (all being well, with a following wind). I’ve taken briefings, had interviews and conversations, and generally made a nuisance of myself. The goal was, and remains, to go beyond “DevOps, is great, come on board” evangelism, and address the simple, yet profound question: how to scale DevOps… → Read More
Five questions for… the Thinaire platform
Ever since I was involved in developing a mobile application myself, I have gained an undue fascination of mobile application platforms – also known as, “why bother building all the component pieces, when they should be a solved problem?” The retail space is no exception, as stores feel they need to get onto the mobile bandwagon but can to easily end up reinventing the wheel without feeling the… → Read More
10 reasons why Broadcom is buying CA
I wouldn’t normally comment on acquisition stories, but in this case, well. Back in the day, CA Inc. (the company formerly known as Computer Associates) was acquisition maestro, first knocking several enterprise management competitors off the board, then building out its portfolio to obfuscate its mainframe-centric business models (and, perhaps, its dodgy business practices). And now, the… → Read More
5 questions for… Electric Cloud
As I am working on a DevOps report at the moment, I’m speaking to a lot (and I mean a lot) of… → Read More
5 questions for… Nuance – does speech recognition have a place in healthcare?
Speech recognition has been on the brink of major success for decades, so it feels. Rather than set of generic “when will… → Read More
The missing element of GDPR: Reciprocity
GDPR day has come and gone, and the world is still turning, just about. Some remarked that it was like the Y2K… → Read More
The Five Cs of DevOps at Scale
DevOps advocates will no doubt be familiar with the term “Wall of Confusion”, as it goes to the heart of why the… → Read More
5 questions for… Auddly, targeting the source of music creation
Auddly essentially logs metadata around the creation of a song, in a centralised database. But more than this, it offers collaboration and… → Read More
5 questions for… Cloudistics
Cloudistics defines itself as a “cloud software platform company, enabling enterprises and service providers to deliver cloud services.” But what does → Read More
Five questions for… the AURA fitness band
Based in the UK and Moscow, AURA Devices is launching a fitness band that goes to places others currently don’t based on… → Read More
5 questions for… Densify: a sign of the times
Densify is an analytical service company whose mission is to help organisations move their server workloads to the public cloud and to… → Read More
When is a startup pitch not a pitch? Retrospective thoughts on TechPitch 4.5
This week I was lucky enough to be a judge at the most recent TechPitch 4.5 event in London. I say lucky… → Read More
Is enhanced reality an AR/VR cop-out?
Watch out, there’s a new term on the block. Even as the initial flurry of excitement over Oculus-primed virtual reality seems to… → Read More
What have we learned about Facebook that we didn’t already know?
This week’s backlash against Facebook’s practices was as predictable as it was unavoidable. The smoking gun is in the hands of Cambridge… → Read More
Which matters most – vision, skill, effort, money or technology acumen?
Human endeavour is a powerful thing. It saw Amelia Earhart fly single-handedly across the Atlantic, Neil Armstrong on the moon and no… → Read More