Grid Watch: smartgrids meet smartcomms
We have pointed to the ongoing convergence of wireless communications and smart grids before, for example in this video about Tropos Networks and in Tom’s stump pitch on sustainability and mobility,...
View ArticleAutomation as a Service from Opscode – Quick Analysis
This Monday, Opscode announced a second round of funding and the beta launch of their long awaited IT Management as a service offering. There are two companies to watch in the automation space: Puppet...
View ArticlePuppet Enterprise – Brief Note
Puppet Labs released a major product last week, Puppet Enterprise, an integrated bundling of the open source automation platform, Puppet, and several of the other tools needed to get up and running...
View ArticleThe Developer Landgrab – Another Way to Look at Dev/Ops
After ejecting every function except writing code, development teams have been bringing those roles back to the core team, starting with QA, then product management, and now operations. The goal is...
View ArticleTo Race with the Machines, We Need Human Capital
Hold on to your jobs while you can, because pretty soon the robots will replace all of us temperamental, non-programmable human workers. At least that’s what you’d gather from these recent headlines:...
View ArticleTeyo Tyree on automation, Puppet, Reductive Labs – IT Management & Cloud...
A little while ago, Reductive Lab’s Teyo Tyree was in town to host some Puppet training. I grabbed him for short podcast over some coffee at The Hideout (hence the 80s sound-track). We talk about what...
View ArticleBMC Buys Phurnace – Quick Analysis
It was a pleasant surprise to see that BMC was buying Phurnace this morning. Over the past few years, I’ve had pizza and soul-food lunches here and there with the local Phurnace team and seen them...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things
In a world of smartphones, mifi mobile hot spots, wifi hot spots and broadband home Internet most of us live an always connected life. Smartphones are extending this connectivity around the world and...
View ArticleProductivity
Around the world of social software, particularly enterprise social networks (ESN), the discussion of value always gets back to a discussion of worker productivity. It’s a logical point of focus of...
View ArticleMarketing in 2014 – Part One
The entire business world is dealing with a lot of change, and it’s being felt across all organizations and departments. The Internet and the four technology pillars (social, mobile, cloud and big...
View ArticleWhy Every Organization Must Build A Post Pandemic Playbook #COVID19 #CoronaVirus
Understand The Key Priorities In A Post Pandemic Response Over the past three weeks, Constellation Research, Inc. has fielded hundreds of calls from CXO’s about what to consider in the business and...
View ArticleThe Matrix Commerce Post Pandemic Playbook #COVID19
Understand The Key Priorities In A Post Pandemic Response Over the past seven weeks, Constellation Research, Inc. has fielded hundreds of calls from CXO’s about what to consider in the business and...
View ArticleNews Analysis: Salesforce Commerce Cloud Quick Start Addresses Post Pandemic...
Contactless, Direct To Consumer, Buy Online Pickup Anywhere, Automation, and Subscription Ready Drive Post Pandemic Response Matrix Commerce analyzes the disruptive pressures influencing the commerce...
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