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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • The Anonymous Source

    Good one! The Anonymous Source.

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  • Status Symbols: Microsoft IntelliMouse

    Regarding Microsoft: there are also success stories… Status Symbols: Microsoft IntelliMouse.

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  • What the Yammer Acquisition Says About Microsoft

    Microsoft posted its first ever loss just when it finally completed the Yammer acquisition. Let’s see if Yammer will have been a success or failure 4-5 years down the line… Microsoft chose […] to pay that fortune for an existing application with a relatively modest user base and revenues. This suggests three things about Microsoft:…

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  • Nodeable gives Hadoop a real-time boost with StreamReduce

    Analytics for the Sysadmin… used to be called Event Management, and taking ages to deploy, configure and optimize. Now the guys can just create their own analytics jobs. Sounds like a winner to me! Rather than just produce a stream of tweet-like alerts to sysadmins, Nodeable would actually alert them to anomalies and emerging patterns…

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  • How to Become Creative

    Scott Berkun, short and precise: Want to be more creative? Pick a problem you care about and get to work. If you don’t care about anything, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s apathy. If you start things and give up, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s dedication. via How to become creative – the short honest truth.

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  • VMware/EMC Spinning Out Greenplum et.al. into New Cloud Provider?

    What would tech news be without rumours and speculation? Anyway, this could make sense from multiple angles, be it risk mitigation or just a new setup that allows EMC and VMware each to focus on the core infra assets that they sell to the enterprise, and takes a lot of the other stuff into a…

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  • How Do You Identify a Jedi Knight?

    About training entrepreneurs, but equally applicable to IT guys. And the example below immediately reminded me about graduate training in the enterprise. It occurred to me recently that we’ve completely lost our way with how we train entrepreneurs. We should be training them like Jedi Knights, starting them young, teaching them discipline, patience, and that…

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  • Groupthink

    You need somebody to challenge Groupthink in every team, but you also need a function to challenge it at the corporate level: Group Internal Audit can play that role too. Groupthink is a mode that a group of people gets into when they desire harmony in decision making without a realistic appraisal of alternatives and…

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  • Startup Connection Cloud aims to free your SaaS data

    Cool idea, difficult to pull off at enterprise quality if the data source providers don’t cooperate and offer stable APIs (but even then…) It’s not easy to get Salesforce.com data to work with NetSuite data, for example. Connection Cloud is working on connectors for those popular applications as well as for Intacct, Facebook, Eloqua, Google…

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  • Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it

    GigaOm kicked off some good discussion in Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it: Hadoop is everywhere. For better or worse, it has become synonymous with big data. In just a few years it has gone from a fringe technology to the de facto standard. Want to be big bata or…

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