2009-11-05T20:40:22-05:00 Michael 21 Coté application/octet-stream cote 17527 2009-11-05T20:40:21-05:00 Industry Analyst, RedMonk cote 2010-03-08T10:07:09-05:00 Michael Coté /system/pictures/21/thumb/cote.?1257471621 1 2010-01-19T12:19:46-05:00 18 1 The Pragmatic Cloud 18 21 14 2010-03-05T09:47:43-05:00 Keynote Grand Ballroom <p>In the IT industry 2009 was apex of cloud promises and hype. The early, now clich&#233; successes captured everyone&#8217;s attention and many vendors turned on a dime to deliver something &#8211; anything &#8211; with the word cloud in it. At the same time, the aging hype-silos of development like Agile development, rails, open source, and Java were cut back on their meal-rations unless they could connect with &#8220;cloud.&#8221; We&#8217;re hardly &#8220;done&#8221; with the cloud, but there are now endless deployment options, taxonomies, technologies, and distractions that are more smoke filled rat-holes than clouds.</p> <p>This talk deals with the state of things now and how you can take start pragmatically getting along with things in the current, cloud-injected development-scape.</p> 6 2010-01-19T12:20:57-05:00 19 2 From Ramen Startups to Quarter-end white-knuckling 19 21 10 2010-02-28T16:14:03-05:00 Management Ballroom A <p>The tone of technology coverage and advancement has changed to follow the darlings of the consumer web word: Google, Facebook, iPhones, and the whiz-bang du jour. &#8220;Enterprise Software&#8221; is hardly the source of new technologies that can help mainstream business: the bulk of valuable innovation now occurs and comes from the consumer world. The dynamics of that consumer culture are much different than typical business concerns, and the result software tends to be a &#8220;leaky abstraction&#8221; that reflects that difference. This talk with cover these innovations and then explore how new consumer technologies like social networking, cloud computing &amp; SaaS, mobile access, and new work habits fit in with the business world.</p> <p>Cot&eacute; is an analyst at RedMonk covering primarily enterprise software, specializing in open source, IT management, software development, collaborative, the web, and social/collaborative software. He is RedMonk&#8217;s IT Management Lead. His blog is available at <a href="http://www.PeopleOverProcess.com">PeopleOverProcess.com</a> and he produces the <a href="http://redmonk.libsyn.com/">RedMonk</a> podcast as well as the video podcast <a href="http://redmonk.com/tv/">RedMonkTV</a>.</p> <p>Before joining RedMonk, Cot&eacute; worked at <span class="caps">BMC</span> developing the <span class="caps">BMC</span> Performance Manager family of enterprise systems management products. Prior to <span class="caps">BMC</span>, Cot&eacute; worked at a wide variety of tech companies and startups such as The Cobalt Group, Coral Technologies, and one of the first, and still thriving, online banking companies, FundsXpress. He also produces the popular code monkey podcast, <a href="http://drunkandretired.com/">DrunkAndRetired</a>.</p>