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Lean Canvas: As if you were home 24×7 – The iDoor
In this post I want to show a technique that is an alternative for creating a business case: “Lean Canvas”. Lean Canvas has been proposed by the book: “Running Lean“, that itself is based on “Lean...
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Disrupting the Datawarehouse market with Redshift
Amazon is taking another step at disrupting an existing market. This time they have their sight set on the Datawarehouse market. Amazon is currently running a limited preview of a new service called...
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Telecom Blue Ocean Strategy
None of the incumbant telecom providers has put into place any Blue Ocean Strategies. Blue Ocean Strategies have made the Circus, Wine, Gaming, Airline, etc. industries exciting again, so why not apply...
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Maarten Ectors is looking for New Challenges
Dear reader, I am the writer of Telruptive. Telruptive has a mix of posts ranging from CEO strategies (e.g. Telecom Blue Ocean Strategy, We need Data Democracy), CTO/CIO strategies (Big Data...
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5 Strategies for Making Money with the Cloud
Everybody is hearing Cloud Computing on the television now. Operators will store your contacts in the Cloud. Hosting companies will host your website in the Cloud. Others will store your photos in the...
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How Intel’s Hadoop distribution wants to be different
Intel announced this week it’s Big Data strategy with its crown jewel their own Hadoop distribution. Many people will be surprised that a chip maker wants to be your Hadoop supplier as well. Mcafee is...
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5 hardware trends to watch…
Open Compute Open Compute is focusing on creating a new type of server, an open source server based on open source storage, motherboards, racks, data center designs, etc. Instead of proprietary...
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Amazon AWS awkward features to fix and enterprise features to add
AWS is used by more and more enterprises today but Amazon should work on several awkward “features” that make daily usage by enterprises difficult. AWS console consistency The console is not very...
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Build your own 4 G LTE pico cell, GPS receiver, Bluetooth, zig bee, etc.
Software defined radio is like software defined networking but for radio networking, you can build whatever by updating the software. Recently a new project got funded on Kickstarter that allows radio...
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A Big Data-Base that is fast but inaccurate: BlinkDB
The idea might sound strange at first. Why would you want a database that delivers inaccurate data? However BlinkDB trades accuracy for speed. When you query data you can specify when you want the...
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MapD – Massively Parallel GPU-based database
An MIT student recently created a new type of massively distributed database, one that runs on graphical processors instead of CPUs. Mapd, as it has been called, makes use of the immense computational...
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Presto – Facebook´s Exabyte-Scale Query Engine
Presto is Facebook´s answer to Cloudera´s Impala, Hortonworks´ Stinger and Google´s Dremel. Presto is an ANSI-SQL compatible real-time data warehouse query engine so existing data tools should be...
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Juju: Deploy, Integrate and Scale Services Instantly on Multiple Clouds
It used to be hard to deploy hardware in a data centre. The Cloud changed all of this. You are literally minutes away from booting a 100 instances. This however has brought other problems....
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Ubuntu Edge – The largest Crowd-funding experiment in history
Traditionally manufacturers would build a product, stock their warehouses and hope they sell it. “Build it and they will come”, was the norm. A very expensive strategy. Crowd-funding websites have...
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Deploying multiple services on one cloud server instantly…
There was a new release of Juju this week, 1.11.3, that brought a “small feature” with a big impact on your AWS bill. You are now able to deploy multiple services on one cloud server instantly. Before...
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Startups: Want to launch new features hourly?
If you read sites like highscalability.com you will have certainly read about those big name dotcoms that deploy new features to production up to tens of times a day. For most startups bringing...
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Instant Ruby on Rails – Instantly deploy and scale your rails app on any cloud
Many developers and devops are doing a lot of repetitive tasks every day. One of them is deploying a web app and scaling it. We all know the theory for deployment: install an app server, install a...
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Solving the pressing need for Linux talent…
The Linux Foundation shared the below infographics recently. Click on it and you get the associated report. The short message is, if you are an expert in Linux you are in high demand because companies...
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Launching new telecom services daily…
Although I changed the focus of Telruptive to move away from trying to help the telecom operators avoid becoming bit pipes, I want to give them one last chance. I will be speaking at the Telecom...
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Telco innovators and the rest…
2014 will be the year in which telecom will be split into two. The ones that understand iCommunication and the ones that don’t. iCommunication is about giving a personalized communication experience to...
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