What the heck is a super computer? One that delivers super computer outcomes. One could measure by transaction speed, by size, by cool types of multi-spacial processing. Whatever it is, it is something pretty damn fast. Fast? What’s fast? Getting an app to run fast? Getting coding to work 1,000 times faster […]
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One of the most common, but subtle waste models is the activity trap. Some poor, struggling sales rep does not know what to do, has massive sales pressure on him or her, so they just “do something!” That something becomes activity like working on an account that will never close but where the prospect will
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It is one of the 10 largest companies on the planet. We are sitting with the executive owner of its cloud migration. His budget is almost $500 million a year with two cloud vendors. We ask him how his “digital transformation is going.” He responds: “We move stuff to the cloud. Our costs are pretty
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Have you noticed articles about failed transformation outnumber those about successes by a wide margin? The brag bias should be in favor of posting success, not failure. Results in the transformation world must be worse than even the article disparity shows. Transformations are failing, according to Gartner Group, at a 75% rate. Since nobody wants
In its day, the RPG-driven AS/400 was the early form of distributed computing. It was fast, inexpensive and RPG was relatively easy to learn. Today, the AS/400 can be the most gnarly of legacies. Nobody talks innovation with an AS/400. AS/400 apps are often the backbone of distribution or retail systems. They can be changed
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Technical debt. 66 percent of IT budget for software maintenance. Cannot easily transform an application because the source is missing. Legacy apps are a compliance nightmare. Please, is there anything you can do to get us an alternative to Oracle and VMware! Many C-level executives’ inflexibility or that of their organization come from the ossified
Microservices, containers, and object-oriented programming are delivering some level of benefit in replacing monolithic apps. Unfortunately, that benefit is not enough to move the needle against 70 percent to 90 percent of all digital transformation failures. To “transform” a monolithic, legacy app into an agile, slender, responsive set of microservices, requires months of evaluation of
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Microsystems – New Compute Paradigm For The Work From Home Generation Microservices, containers, object oriented programming, and building software from reusable pieces make good sense. Anything that rapidly enables expensive developers to do more with less, is a good thing. Now, microservices architectures have opened the door to an even more fundamental compute paradigm shift
Edge is about a new tech stack, not a different location Edge computing is fundamentally different from “computing at the network edge”. Computing at the edge is what IBM, Nutanix, Dell and HP sell – putting current technology, mini-data centers, closer to the customer. That is NOT edge computing. True edge computing uses a completely
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The cloud is just someone else’s data center. Vendor driven madness is NOT transforming anything! Critical minds are beginning to see moving to the cloud is just using someone else’s data center. Cloud value-added services enable faster server provisioning, reduction of bloated tech staffs but do not deliver anything close to transformation. Provisioning servers fast