Michael Coté led the Infrastructure Software practice at 451 Research, focused on everything from the hypervisor to the application layer. In addition to covering application development, systems management, VDI, cloud management and platforms, he also closely followed the business of software -- including product management and marketing; strategy and M&A; and the tectonic moves of vendors and communities in the technology world.
Michael worked at several technology companies, from startups -- such as the pioneering online banking company FundsXpress -- to BMC Software. In 2006 he chased his passion for following and commenting on the IT industry to RedMonk, where he was an industry analyst covering the IT world and helping clients plan how to most effectively prosper in the rapidly changing space.
Prior to joining 451 Research, Michael worked at Dell in various strategy roles -- in corporate strategy, where he helped launch the software group; heading up the internal incubation program; leading Dell's cross-company cloud strategy; and finally, running the portfolio strategy team for the Dell Software Group.
Michael is well known for his podcasts and videos, including the DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast and the IT Management & Cloud Podcast. When not publishing insight at 451 Research, he blogs at CoteIndustries.com and types inane prattle on Twitter @cote.
Docker recently wrapped up its European conference. The company behind the Docker technology used the conference agenda to announce key product roadmaps, explain Docker community management and philosophy, and also solidify Docker's 'job to be done:' a DIY PaaS toolkit.
While faster, more agile IT operations -- even DevOps -- was previously the realm of mainly Web-scale and technology-oriented companies, it is becoming a requirement to stay competitive in nearly all enterprise verticals. In this report, we highlight recent and emerging trends that will affect how applications and services are to be delivered going into 2015.
'Software defined' has come to define the enterprise platform space in 2014, and will continue to do so in 2015. It largely means moving the value in infrastructure to the software layer, making it highly open, programmable and automatable, in contrast to 'black boxes.' The movement of value affects all parts of the layer, from servers all the way up to how developers package and deploy applications with technologies such as Docker.
The company has identified a critical need in the DevOps tool chain: automating and monitoring the software delivery pipeline. Once that pipeline is regarded as a mission-critical asset, the 'developer doesn't pay for anything' blockade starts to weaken.
In a bid to simplify what had become a confusing portfolio of systems and cloud management tools built largely through acquisitions, VMware is rebranding its management tools as 'vRealize' and beginning a multi-year re-architecting of the suite.
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