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Assessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months On

Published August 20, 2024 by Carlos Veira

Assessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months OnAssessing Broadcom VMware Eight Months On

A few days ago David Vellante posted a summary in LinkedIn about a Breaking Analysis from theCUBE Research about the state of things after the Broadcom acquisition.

👉🏻 In addition to the ideas shared on that piece of work, I also see the convergence of three trends as major drivers for Workload Modernization (Hybrid Multicloud adoption):

1. VMware “exits”.
2. The enforcement of EU-DORA regulations as an accelerator.
3. The combined capabilities of IaaS and PaaS under a single Control Plane powered by GenAI (i.e.…

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Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell – Part 2: “The Dark Side”

Published March 21, 2014 by Carlos Veira

Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell – Part 2: “The Dark Side”Spotting influencers and VIPs in LinkedIn with PowerShell — Part 2: “The Dark Side”

What we have seen on our previous post may seem interesting and powerful. Essentially, what we are doing is opening the door to creating local datasets with personally identifiable information coming from our Social Networks. That's a pretty big deal. Therefore, there are a couple of things that we need to understand before going forward.

Privacy, Law and Ethics

Usually, on Digital Media, whenever you can access some information is because you have rights and permissions to do so. However, I would like you to consider the difference between “can” and “should”.…

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Watch out! Twitter is no longer a trusted Social Media Hub

Published October 15, 2012 by Carlos Veira

Watch out! Twitter is no longer a trusted Social Media Hub

That Twitter wants to exercise more control over their user’s experience and, hence, its whole ecosystem, it is not new. Until now, Twitter’s moves in this direction haven’t had major and practical impact on how we were used to consume the service. For example:

Ok, I admit that this second one, represents a threat for some users and developers in the medium term.…

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Social Media Interconnection Map for 2012

Published September 3, 2012 by Carlos Veira

Social Media Interconnection Map for 2012

Last year I started looking at ways to handle the amount of Social Media presence in a reasonable way. Then, I came up with a Social Media Interconnection Map and a set of design rules, principles and guidelines that we could take into account shall we wanted to build our own.

Unfortunately, everything moves insanely fast in the technology space and so many things have changed since that first proposal. In fact, I have had to adapt my original design several times over the past months due to a number of reasons:

  1. new players have emerged or exploded: Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, Posterous, Instagram, SlideShare, LinksAlpha, ifttt, dlvr.it
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By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 3 of 3)

Published August 27, 2012 by Carlos Veira

By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 3 of 3)By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 3 of 3)

Innovation = Sales activity

This paradigm usually appears when a customer tells you that he “misses innovative proposals from you”. As you might have figured out, this is a Sales activity but not an Innovation one: Proposing something is selling, not innovating.

Anyway, we must question ourselves who is really innovating just in case we’ve successfully sold something innovative:

  • We?
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By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 2 of 3)

Published August 20, 2012 by Carlos Veira

By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 2 of 3)By defining Innovation, you draw your future (Part 2 of 3)

Let’s spend some time on this last topic because it can have very dangerous effects.

There is nothing wrong with the intention of maintaining high price levels and significant markups. Innovations, as opposed to commodities, meet these characteristics. That’s the reason why everyone wants to position their offerings as Innovations to achieve these goals.…

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By defining Innovation, you draw your future … (Part 1 of 3)

Published August 14, 2012 by Carlos Veira

By defining Innovation, you draw your future … (Part 1 of 3)By defining Innovation, you draw your future … (Part 1 of 3)

 

Over the past two years I’ve had the opportunity to meet many people over many different contexts, both professional and non professional, and degrees of personal involvement. One interesting aspect of these conversations was observing how different people address the problem of how to define Innovation and, more interestingly, how they avoid defining it even though they have to deal with it.…

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The real cost of your Personal Cloud

Published August 7, 2012 by Carlos Veira

As time goes by, it becomes more common to see ourselves contracting services on-line. They are diverse, easy to consume, mature enough, convenient and economic. Some times we see our friends, relatives or colleagues consuming them and, once we get to know details about their experiences, we feel it is the right moment to start and experience the service ourselves.

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Many of them are really economic (in the range of 1 to 5 euros/month), so we don’t feel the need of any sort of financial control.…

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Education vs. Accreditation

Published March 24, 2012 by Carlos Veira

Have you ever felt that there was something like a “disturbance in The Force” in regard to our education system? I do. But, as someone that it is far from being an expert on the subject, I don't feel confident enough to even consider that my arguments are based on a set of solid criteria.

Anyway, I have always have a feeling that something was wrong. And, once again, I find myself in front of an awesome talk –“Leading@Google”, by Josh Kaufman– learning about the difference between Education and Accreditation.…

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“Cloud Computing: Vision or Reality”

Published January 28, 2012 by Carlos Veira

“Cloud Computing: Vision or Reality”“Cloud Computing: Vision or Reality”

Past week I flew to Lisbon to participate in a Cloud Computing Event from IDC: “Managed Services, Outsourcing & Cloud Computing”. The place they chose to host it was the “Centro Cultural De Belém”, which is located on a beautiful neighbourhood. If you don’t happen to know Lisbon, as I don’t, I can promise you will be surprised :).

My talk was a pretty conceptual one covering the following topics:

  1. The deep economic forces that drive this paradigm shift.
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