Great, another useful service for them to destroy. Mozy was very good, but went downhill after being bought by EMC.
EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
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Re: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
#12My first reaction was to say "wtf" out loud. It's just that EMC and Pivotal Labs to me represents kind of opposites in the spectrum: EMC is the established old-school hardware company, while Pivotal Labs is the cool software consultancy that the cool startups hire for web-apps. So that pairing feels odd. I'm curious to know what is the goal behind that… "Bringing agile methodologies to the enterprise" doesn't make mu…
IBM went through a transition from machines to services, it wouldn't surprise me if EMC were trying to get into services this way.
They've already been in services ala IBM for a number of years.
Re: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
#13My first reaction was to say "wtf" out loud. It's just that EMC and Pivotal Labs to me represents kind of opposites in the spectrum: EMC is the established old-school hardware company, while Pivotal Labs is the cool software consultancy that the cool startups hire for web-apps. So that pairing feels odd. I'm curious to know what is the goal behind that… "Bringing agile methodologies to the enterprise" doesn't make mu…
I've never heard of Pivotal Labs but perhaps they're competent in big data backed web apps. I work in the data center monitoring space (actually power systems simulations) and I've created a SVG based web app for power system simulation and monitoring visualization, and it's garnered interest from big traditional players in this space.
offtopic: is SVG buggy in Google Chrome? I found a lot of bugs (crashes) playing with big graphs in d3.
Re: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
#14EMC could have just hired them as consultants to teach them the ways of being 'more agile' with their product set. hard to find a business reason behind this other than buying them for their non tangible 'processes".
Re: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never heard of Pivotal Labs but perhaps they're competent in big data backed web apps. I work in the data center monitoring space (actually power systems simulations) and I've created a SVG based web app for power system simulation and monitoring visualization, and it's garnered interest from big traditional players in this space.
offtopic: is SVG buggy in Google Chrome? I found a lot of bugs (crashes) playing with big graphs in d3.
That's not been my experience, but the D3 work I've ran in Chrome has been on the small side.
Re: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
#16Pivotal Labs doesn't really have assets beyond its people, so unless this is a very large deal with strong golden handcuffs, I see it being a losing proposition as all the Pivotal guys go to Facebook/Twitter/Pinterest/startups.
Re: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
#17Does anybody know what will happen with Pivotal Tracker? Will it be shut down?
Re: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
#18My first reaction was to say "wtf" out loud. It's just that EMC and Pivotal Labs to me represents kind of opposites in the spectrum: EMC is the established old-school hardware company, while Pivotal Labs is the cool software consultancy that the cool startups hire for web-apps. So that pairing feels odd. I'm curious to know what is the goal behind that… "Bringing agile methodologies to the enterprise" doesn't make mu…
Desperation.
Storage vendors are between a rock and a hard place these days because their business has been commoditized.
The huge storage deployments of today are not running on EMC or NetApp anymore. They are running on arrays of beige boxes, for good reasons[1].
At the same time the low-end of the market is moving to the cloud, also for good reasons. Their customer-base is shrinking from both ends at a rapid pace. And they don't really know where to go from here.
(the CDN market is a another example for this phenomena btw; Hi Akamai! How many auxiliary products have you invented today?)
[1] http://blog.backblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cost-of...
Re: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
#19My first reaction was to say "wtf" out loud. It's just that EMC and Pivotal Labs to me represents kind of opposites in the spectrum: EMC is the established old-school hardware company, while Pivotal Labs is the cool software consultancy that the cool startups hire for web-apps. So that pairing feels odd. I'm curious to know what is the goal behind that… "Bringing agile methodologies to the enterprise" doesn't make mu…
Desperation. Storage vendors are between a rock and a hard place these days because their business has been commoditized. The huge storage deployments of today are not running on EMC or NetApp anymore. They are running on arrays of beige boxes, for good reasons[1]. At the same time the low-end of the market is moving to the cloud, also for good reasons. Their customer-base is shrinking from both ends at a rapid pace.…
"...At the same time the low-end of the market is moving to the cloud, also for good reasons. Their customer-base is shrinking from both ends at a rapid pace. And they don't really know where to go from here..."
They do own the company that owns the majority of enterprise cloud market...
Re: EMC Buys Pivotal Labs
#20Does anybody know what will happen with Pivotal Tracker? Will it be shut down?
Christ I hope not. I love that tool.