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Docker Hotspots Around the World
February 18, 2016February 14, 2025Full article from The New Stack, No longer in TNS site

Docker’s San Francisco Roots are Growing Globally

Of course, Docker is the darling of Silicon Valley, but how global is the container phenomenon? To judge from the attendance of Docker meetups around the world, we can see the technology’s influence growing. Our research was conducted in Summer 2015. Since then, repeat attendance […]

47% of Surveyed Companies Employees Are Open Source Contributors
February 1, 2016February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

How Many Company Developers Should Work on Open Source?

Survey data was combined with LinkedIn stats to get a perspective on how many employees contribute to open source projects.

January 26, 2016February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

How the IT Landscape is Shifting to Accommodate Containers

The PaaS market is evolving quickly as vendors offer platforms to deploy containerized applications.

January 7, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

On the Prevalence of Real-time Analytics

Most companies are using data in real-time for at least some application or department.

memorable thought leadership by firm type
October 22, 2015February 20, 2025Events and panels, Miscellaneous (professional)

Lessons From Consulting’s Thought Leadership

How many times have you been disappointed in vendor-produced content? Do you contemptuously look at an analyst firm’s report thinking you know more about the subject than the author? Have you ever been embarrassed because your six-page study is clearly produced by Marketing and not actual experts? […]

October 14, 2015February 14, 2025Miscellaneous (professional)

When Consultancies Should Work With Analytic Consultants

This is the second of several blog posts that look at the use of analytics consultants and when consulting firms should use analytics consultants. The first article can be found here. Management consultancies like McKinsey have been rushing to get in on the analytics boom […]

October 12, 2015February 14, 2025Miscellaneous (professional)

Why and When to Use Analytics Consultants

This is the first of several blog posts that look at the use of analytics consultants and when consulting firms should use analytics consultants. Throughout the corporate world analytics is a necessary capability for a data-driven enterprise. But what types of analytics should be done […]

% of contributions coming from employees in container ecosystems
October 3, 2015February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Developing a Methodology for Analyzing Open Source Communities

To create the first table above, data about contributors was collected using a tool called Blockspring that accessed the GitHub API to pull information about contributors to specific repositories.

September 1, 2015February 14, 2025Miscellaneous (professional)

Advice to Prospective New Analysts

In order to do justice to a recent podcast I decided to provide my commentary in two posts. The first post can be found here. As an observer of the analyst industry I took notice about what the panelists thought about the future. I agreed with […]

August 31, 2015February 14, 2025Miscellaneous (professional)

Asymmetric Competition With the Gartners of the World

I just finished listening to Kea Company’s three-part podcast, The New Industry Analysts, Who Are They? Although I have already talked to several of the panelists about the subject, I still found the conversation to be compelling. Generally, Michael Coté and Phil Fersht were skeptical, yet realistic about […]

Information Security Community Size
August 31, 2015February 14, 2025Miscellaneous (professional)

Influencers = 2% of Security Community

A recent presentation by Adrian Sanabria inspired me to look at the community of information security professionals. Analyzing a community can provide insights into workforce development initiatives and for marketers’ communication to their audiences. As someone who surveys B2B technology markets, this subject is important […]

April 15, 2015February 14, 2025Miscellaneous (professional)

Remembering Why I Got Into IT Market Research

It was 1997. I was an intern in the Secretary of Commerce’s office and was asked to write bullet points about the Internet that would promote administration policies to foster the ecommerce economy. I clearly remember including IT market size and impact estimates from Gartner […]

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