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Dell Ventures – Mobilizing Early Stage Innovation…

Venture capital and capitalists (VC/s) enjoy a legendary status in Silicon Valley and the broader technology industry. That’s partly due to the remarkable gains and spectacular wealth that some in the VC community have managed to achieve time and again. But those investments also qualify as the literal financial lifeblood of IT. Without VCs willing to take a risk, it is difficult or impossible to discern how companies, including...

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Intel’s Strategy Shift: Increasing Velocity, Flexibility…

Technology vendor strategies tend to arrive in public so fully formed that it’s easy to assume that they are similarly constructed. Instead, creating strategies whether they focus on specific products, markets or entire organizations tends to be an organic process that evolves according to continuing, often subtle changes in the marketplace and the growing understanding and experience of the leaders involved. That’s certainly the case...

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HP’s Analyst Event: How to Create the Best Event Ever

Years ago while I was working for Giga Information Group, we came together as a team and put together a presentation on how best to do analyst events. As analysts, we figured we would have the best insight into what it was that set the good ones apart from the bad. Since then, the world has changed substantially. There are more distractions and better tools, and a lot of the big analyst firms, including Meta and Giga, were gobbled up...

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IBM Pulse 2014 (Part 3 of 3): IBM’s “Bold Moves”

In the end, for me, the primary theme of Pulse 2014 was this: IBM has embarked on a new journey to the public/hybrid cloud. This new IBM-as-a-Service paradigm shift necessitates changes in the way IBM engages with potential customers at every level. Developers require solutions that will enable them to develop applications more quickly and easily. Codename: BlueMix is IBM’s answer to this. Business users will demand new and easier...

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IBM Pulse 2014 (Part 2 of 3): IBM Transforms Itself

All-in-all, I like the direction that the new Pulse event has taken. It is now a broader technology solutions event that showcases IBM product offerings in cloud, analytics, social and mobile environments. Given the success of Pulse 2014, I’d like to see the company eliminate their large specialized events around collaboration, analytics, storage, and more – and instead stage this type of event twice a year at various locations around...

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