Innovate or die, & make sure you're lucky - Coté Memo #27
Just a few podcasts and links today. I should have a The Register column on OpenStack up by next issue (gotta write that next!).
Cloud-Native Strategy Workshop, June 7th in D.C.
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Come check out a day-long workshop with me and Mark Heckler:
It’s fine-tuned to government needs, so come on down if you’re into all that. It’s free, and you get breakfast and lunch! Register.
For your ear-holes
In a too rare spate of social commentary, we start talking about the price of hipster avocados in Australia and US health insurance. With one of our favorite analysts moving over the enterprise side, we talk about what it’d be like going through that door. We then wrap up talking about Canonical’s IPO talk, related OpenStack market discussion, and then use CyberArk’s acquisition of Conjur to discuss the state of privileges access management (PAM). We end, as always, with recommendations, including some CostCo discussion.
Matt Curry is back! In this episode recorded at OSCON 2017, we discuss the problems with getting people to change, from staff to management, private sector and government.
Barton George and I talk with John Willis at DevOpsDays Austin 2017.
Links &co.
Why are blue chip companies and, thus, “the market” doing so well in the face of all the nut-ball-ness in DC?
You can throw out the cashflow-model chaff, but really, you just have to get the financial analysis to put down their pivot tables and have faith that you’ll figure it out. You’re going to be loosing lots of money and likely fail. You’ll be doing those anti-Buffet moves that confound normals.In this second mode you’re guided by an innovation mindset: you have to be parnoid, you have to learn everyday what your customers and competitors are doing, and do new things that bring in new cash. You have to try.
A nice walk down the memory lane of MP3s.
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“priming the pump”
If you’re into this kind of thing it’s, as usual, a good/distressing read.
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At Enchanted Rock this past weekend.
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