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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

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. 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. When visionary founders depart (death, firing, etc.),

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

Steve Blank

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. 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. When visionary founders depart (death, firing, etc.),

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Your cloud data needs a reality check: our investment in Cyera

Cracking the Code

Yotam Segev (left) and Tamar Bar-Ilan (right), cofounders of Cyera The complex equation of data reality With AWS, Azure and GCP growing 40-50% YoY at massive scale (AWS’ run rate is more than $70B!), The issue is that existing products focus on endpoints and on-premise datastores. Sub-categories include DLP (e.g.

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The Enterprise Strikes Back

BeyondVC

Every large enterprise is a software company which means developer productivity is paramount. 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.

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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.

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The Difference Between Apple & Facebook ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

To be fair Apple designs products in a holistic fashion… iStuff is remarkable not just for the physical product design but for the software user interface. 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.

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