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2 episodes with Mark Hurd
2 episodes with Mark Hurd
2 episodes with Mark Hurd
2 episodes with Mark Hurd
67-year-old billionaire Bill Gates has officially found a new love, Paula Hurd, only two years after his divorce with Melinda French Gates. The Daily Mail broke the story revealing that the widow of former Oracle co-CEO and president Mark Hurd had begun a relationship with the co-founder of Microsoft. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
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Chad interviews Evan Goldberg, Founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite. Evan grew up in Massachusetts and moved out to Silicon Valley in the 1980s to work for Oracle, where he was able to pursue a life long dream of working in computer software. He joins us today to talk lessons learned, mistakes, opportunities, successes, and some of the best advice he has for entrepreneurs… as well as what he’s learned working with Larry Ellison, Marc Benioff, and Mark Hurd. — This episode of Mission Daily is brought to you by our friends at TriNet. TriNet makes HR easier, from payroll to benefits to compliance. AND they offer full-service solutions tailored to your industry and your company, whether your team is 10 people or 1,000. Check out TriNet today at trinet.com. — For full show notes and more, go to mission.org/missiondaily.
Jason Treu is a chief people officer, employee engagement and leadership development expert, author, and Keynote Speaker. Treu has had the opportunity to share his message with all of the following: Microsoft, Southwest, Public Relations Society of America, Phillips May Corporation, and TEDx. Treu is the best selling author of "Social Wealth: A How To Guide on Building Extraordinary Business Relationships by Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Lead, and Network." His incredible book sold more than 60,000 copies. He has his law degree and masters in communication from Syracuse University. He spent 15+ years working in marketing leadership positions in Silicon Valley working with influential leaders such as Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, Reed Hastings, Mark Hurd, Paul Wahl, and many others. His main goal is to help people with teamwork and communication skills. In this episode, Treu shares his keys to a successful culture. Later, Brielle joins Hayes and Macie to break down trusting teams. CONNECT WITH JASON: INSTAGRAM TWITTER FACEBOOK **Award Winning Culture is Sponsored by: CharacterStrong Use the Code AWC and get $200 off the Advisory Curriculum or $100 off the Leadership Curriculum Follow Award Winning Culture : Twitter Instagram
Peter goes Absent With Out Leave – AWOL. Redhat can’t save IBM’s earnings, AWS starts detecting anomalies, Google adds 100-Gbps direct connect links to their data centers, and Azure gets FHIR-Y. We also take a few somber minutes to talk about the passing of Mark Hurd, Oracle’s former Co-CEO. Plus the world famous lightning round. Sponsors: Foghorn Consulting – fogops.io/thecloudpod Follow Up Topics General News/Topics Oracle's Mark Hurd, who was on medical leave, has died at 62 Despite Red Hat boost, IBM misses revenue targets ? Defense Secretary Mark Esper pulls out of JEDI cloud computing contract review AWS Amazon CloudWatch Anomaly Detection Now Available – Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware Containers and infrastructure as code, like peanut butter and jelly Amazon joins the Java Community Process (JCP) Google Improve your connectivity to Google Cloud with enhanced hybrid connectivity options Leave no database behind with Cloud SQL for SQL Server Azure Microsoft unveils two open-source projects for building
This week apex.world celebrate its 4th birthday. apex.oracle has been upgraded to APEX 19.2. There are some great discounts available. And there is very sad news about the death of Oracle's co-CEO Mark Hurd.
Each month, Tony Uphoff, visionary CEO of Thomasnet.com, joins Cloud Wars Live for a recurring segment. “Uphoff on Industry” will explore the innovations, upheavals, and breakthroughs reshaping the the world of manufacturing and industrial markets. Join Tony and me as we discuss disruptive new trends in the digital-industrial world. These include how we design, source and manufacture products. And also the new ways in which industrial companies are getting up to speed on marketing, sales and customer experience.Episode 7In this episode, Tony and I discuss the passing of Mark Hurd, co-CEO of Oracle. He says he could be tough, but Tony had huge admiration for his business acumen.He goes on to say that there’s really cool technology around what’s called “smart warehousing,” where they’re combining man and machine to automate and improve efficiencies.Tony was invited to give a keynote address at the Electronic Components Industry Association (ECIA), and he spoke about data and research. When he got off the stage, somebody used the expression, “You punched us right in the face with the reality of where our buyer’s going – even if we didn’t want to hear it.”Tony was also on Fox Business News, and talked about the state of U.S. manufacturing. Prior to his appearance, the stock market tanked by 500 points. He says it was a fascinating time to go on the show, since the markets were reacting to the ISM survey of manufacturers.Tony says that your prospective customer knows more about your products, your offering, your competitors, and the marketplace than your best sales rep could ever know.Tony has a new podcast called “Thomas Industry Update.” Their first guest is Anne Evans, director at the Department of Commerce, who is helping U.S. companies understand the complexities of exporting. It’s available on all platforms: www.thomasnet.com/update. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Former CEO of Oracle, MARK HURD loved tennis. In High School, Hurd battled it out with top-ten pros on the public courts in Miami Beach. In college, he played #1 at Baylor University. And while Chief Executive at Oracle, he helped forge one of the most significant relationships in the history of tennis between a corporation and the sport. We interviewed Mark this year at The BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells, but we had some technical difficulties and the interview was cut short so we tabled it, hoping to get a better, more thorough one, down the road. Unfortunately, we never got that chance. Mark passed away last week at the age of 62. The man did so much for the sport he loved and so we decided to release this episode in his honor. On the episode MARK HURD discusses the state of college tennis, what Oracle is doing to advance the sport and what makes Larry Ellison so special. (Recorded March 9, 2019. Released October 22, 2019.) UNDER REVIEW is a podcast in which tennis insiders share unique stories and insightful perspective. For more information, please contact: info@underreviewtennis.com SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: For other episodes of UNDER REVIEW with Technologists, check out: Gordon Uehling [Ep25] Hurd's Obituary in The Washington Post. KEYWORDS: Eddie Dibbs, UTR, Indian Wells, Baylor, Kevin Kern, Larry Ellison, BNP Paribas Open, Miami, Title IX
Today Brexit affect on Tech https://www.zdnet.com/article/revealed-the-dramatic-changes-tech-firms-are-making-ahead-of-brexit/ Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd dies at 62 https://www.crn.com/news/storage/oracle-co-ceo-mark-hurd-dies-at-62 LinkedIn has a new Events feature https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/linkedin-gets-physical-debuts-new-events-hub-for-people-to-plan-in-person-networking-events/ AND Yahoo Groups is shutting down https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/16/yahoo-groups-to-shut-down/ https://lifehacker.com/how-to-save-and-migrate-your-yahoo-groups-data-before-i-1839172243
On this week's episode there is news on the unfortunate passing of Mark Hurd at the age of 62. I also cover a lot of news related to October patch Tuesday including Windows NTLM vulnerabilities, Cisco vulnerabilities and more. The Scripts, Tricks and Tips segment is also very full this week and there's a return of the Hot Job segment plus much more! Reference Links: https://www.rorymon.com/blog/episode-94-october-patch-news-sophos-to-be-acquired-the-death-of-mark-hurd-more/
Jackie Sanders is the Conference Director for the Blockland Solutions Conference 2019. She gives us a good look at what to expect. Blockchain Solutions conference is a leading technology conference focused on the application of blockchain technology to solve real world business problems in manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and government. In its inaugural year, Blockland Solutions launched to a sold-out audience of more than 1600 with participation by many of the leaders who are defining the future of business with blockchain: Mark Hurd, (CEO of Oracle), Joseph Lubin (founder of ConsenSys and co-founder of Ethereum), Alex Tapscott, (author of Blockchain Revolution and co-founder of the Blockchain Research Institute), and more... https://www.blocklandcleveland.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more on FYD: ► Website: www.FortifyYourData.com ► Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also look out for us on Social Media! https://www.facebook.com/Fortifyyourdata https://twitter.com/fortifyyourdata https://www.instagram.com/fortifyyour... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opening song clipped from Red Skies by Windows 96 - https://windows96.bandcamp.com/
Developers don’t buy anything, but they make other people buy things. We try to, once again, build a theory of how developers drive IT spend. Also: hotel shampoo bottles, Scottish vikings, and Kiwi slang. Hey, Coté got off his ass and finally reved back up his newsletter (https://buttondown.email/cote). People love it! Subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote) and tell all your friends to subscribe (https://buttondown.email/cote)! Mood board: Buying something different to try something new. Australian bagels. “Let’s start the QBR: we’re gonna have hide my ass.” “Obviously if we don’t sell ads we can do whatever the fuck we want.” More fools giving their software away for free I have a lot of thoughts on How to Train Your Dragon Hanging out with the Scots at The Hague I do have a follow-up question, but not on the soap. Some baroque, bespoke, monster piece of infrastructure. Matt’s little bit of glue. How much simpler can you get than straight code? General Container’s army of yamlites. Developer tools = vomit on the floor Write in if you disagree. Relevant to your interests Pivotal interviews from CF Summit EU: the multi-tenant problem in kubernetes (https://data-economy.com/the-superpower-to-change-one-thing-about-kubernetes/). “In the future K8s will exist as an infrastructure API almost universally.” (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/12/pivotal_application_service_vmware/) “Daimler takes (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/11/kubernetes_cloud_foundry_director/) a hybrid cloud approach, using Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud and Alibaba, as well as its own data centre in Stuttgart and a new one being built in Frankfurt.” Cornelia Davis on PaaS, kubernetes, and cloud native programming (https://content.pivotal.io/intersect-podcasts/paas-and-caas-in-15-minutes). IBM brings Cloud Foundry and Red Hat OpenShift together (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/12/together-at-last-ibm-brings-cloud-foundry-to-red-hat-openshift/) “our understanding is that IBM plans to turn this into a fully supported project that will give Cloud Foundry users the option to deploy their application right to OpenShift, while OpenShift customers will be able to offer their developers the Cloud Foundry experience.” COBOL turns 60: Why it will outlive us all (https://www.zdnet.com/article/cobol-turns-60-why-it-will-outlive-us-all/) Why Red Hat sees Knative as the answer to Kubernetes orchestration (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-red-hat-sees-knative-as-the-answer-to-kubernetes-orchestration/) BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/05/bigid-announces-50m-series-c-investment-as-privacy-takes-center-stage/) Data Protection Services Firm Carbonite Considers a Sale (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-06/data-protection-services-provider-carbonite-is-said-to-mull-sale) Recap of the (https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/) “funding (https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/)” experiment (https://feross.org/funding-experiment-recap/) “you have to admit, the fact that businesses will pay thousands of dollars for some SaaS software while ignoring the maintainers who write the actual open source code itself seems a bit unfair.” Coté’s hot-take: I mean. Yeah. People will pay $0 for what they want if you give them the chance. Should open source software advertise? (https://www.infoworld.com/article/3435114/should-open-source-software-advertise.html) Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken (https://onezero.medium.com/almost-everything-about-goodreads-is-broken-662e424244d5) Google Could Acquire Nutanix For $9 Billion To Further Its Cloud Ambitions (https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2019/09/10/google-could-acquire-nutanix-for-9-billion-to-further-its-cloud-ambitions/#1257dd4634a9) This is a good example of I-banker think, namely, it doesn’t actually talk about what Nutanix does or what kind of new opportunities Google and them would have together. Lots of fun charts though! Everything Apple announced today, including the new iPhone 11, Apple TV+, Apple Watch, and more (https://www.geekwire.com/2019/everything-apple-announced-today-including-new-iphone-11-apple-tv-apple-watch/) It's Not Just You: Software Has Gotten Far More Expensive (https://capiche.com/p/software-inflation-rate) - check out their spreadsheet (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-3kyC2SYDvJwULt9FWL3A6Cy3jq0I5ox-DhQr64qydc/edit#gid=0), with sparkle lines! Uber stock price drops after missed Q2 expectations (https://www.axios.com/uber-stock-price-drops-after-missed-q2-expectations-b0da2ddc-27db-4e58-91ca-ae57a496a24a.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top) Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube (https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/09/11/procella/) Announcing Terraform Cloud (https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-cloud) Mark Hurd, the co-CEO of Oracle, is taking a leave of absence, citing health reasons (https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/11/mark-hurd-the-co-ceo-of-oracle-is-taking-a-leave-of-absence-citing-health-reasons/) IPO’s The Datadog IPO: One Of The Best IPOs In Years (https://seekingalpha.com/article/4290637-datadog-ipo-one-best-ipos-years) WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10 billion... (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wework-ipo-valuation/exclusive-wework-considers-ipo-valuation-of-as-low-as-10-billion-sources-idUSKCN1VY1PB) Cloudflare Raises $525 Million in Above-Range IPO (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-12/cloudflare-is-said-to-raise-525-million-in-above-range-ipo) New Rita McGrath book out, Seeing Around Corners (https://blogs.gartner.com/mark_mcdonald/2019/09/09/seeing-around-corners-book-review/). Nonsense Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain, just moved to eliminate 500 million small bottles (https://www.fastcompany.com/90396549/marriott-just-moved-to-eliminate-500-million-small-bottles). Jack Ma's performance (https://twitter.com/alibabagroup/status/1171643205571530753?s=12). “;; I'm using use-package and el-get and evil” (https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack/blob/master/README.md) Sponsors This episode is sponsored by SolarWinds ® and one of their APM tools: Loggly . To try it FREE for 14 days just go to https://loggly.com/sdt. Conferences, et. al. Sep 25th - Something in London. Sep 26th to 27th - DevOpsDays London (https://devopsdays.org/events/2019-london/welcome/) - Coté at the Pivotal table, come get free shit. Oct 7th to 10th - SpringOne Platform, Oct 7th to 10th, Austin Texas (https://springoneplatform.io/) - get $200 off registration before August 20th, and $200 more if you use the code S1P200_Cote. Come to the EMEA party (https://connect.pivotal.io/EMEA-Cocktail-Reception-S1P-2019.html) if you’re in EMEA. Oct 9th to 10th - Cloud Expo Asia (https://www.cloudexpoasia.com/) Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th Nov 2nd - EmacsConf (https://emacsconf.org/2019/) 2019 Nov 3rd to 7th - Gartner Symposium, Barcelona. Coté has a €625 discount code if you ask him for it. December - 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted (http://springonetour.io/): Toronto Dec 2nd and 3rd (https://springonetour.io/2019/toronto), São Paulo Dec 11th and 12th (https://springonetour.io/2019/sao-paulo). December 12-13 2019 - Kubernetes Summit Sydney (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kubernetes-summit-sydney-2019/) Listener Feedback Sent stickers to Blair from London David from Waikanae, NZ sent us a note and say he really enjoys the podcast. Also, tells us “fanny pack in NZ, its a whole different meaning!!!!!” Does Matt Ray know what these mean: jandals, togs, pavlova, pineapple lumps, lollies SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you free laptop stickers! Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/softwaredeftalk), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/softwaredefinedtalk/) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/software-defined-talk/) Listen to the Software Defined Interviews Podcast (https://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/). Check out the back catalog (http://cote.coffee/howtotech/). Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Use the code SDT to get $20 off Coté’s book, (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt) Digital WTF (https://leanpub.com/digitalwtf/c/sdt), so $5 total. Recommendations Brandon: Land of Giants (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/land-of-the-giants) and Pivot (https://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/pivot). Related: Robert Scoble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Scoble). Matt: Wu-Tang: An American Saga (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9113406/) and Mics and Men (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9376934/). Jim Plamondon: Microsoft Evangelist (https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Jim_Plamondon.html). Coté: Trick Mirror (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43126457-trick-mirror). Outro: "Spottieottiedopalicious (Instrumental)." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pY0MhdM8Ls)
In this week's newscast, we look at a news story from Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle. Also there are some interesting blog posts, and we highlight many upcoming events.
Mark Hurd joined Oracle in 2010 and almost immediately dramatically changed how the tech company does business. He saw a need for a shift to cloud computing, and transformed the way his team built and sold products. It wasn’t easy. Hurd tells us why he believed his plan would work even when hundreds of employees pushed back, and what the experience taught him about leadership.
The inspiration for innovation takes all forms. For some its music. For others its art. And for others its data. When I was CTO, Mark Hurd, the CEO at HP at the time, had a quote that was ingrained into everything the executive team did. “If you stare at the numbers long enough, they will eventually confess.” Mark Hurd The expectation was that as an executive you knew “your numbers”. It was not unusual to have Mark stop me in the hall and ask about the R&D investment levels last quarter for the top three competitors, customer net promoter scores for our top 5 products or the reverse supply chain levels from retail returns. While Mark’s focus on the numbers was well-meaning, I always felt that it caused blind spots when it came to understanding the shift, changes, and unspoken needs and wants of our customers. It looked at numbers as single elements to be managed individually. It also had the built-in assumption that the numbers were fact and that they never misled. Years later, I came across this story that caused me to reflect back on these times at HP. Misleading Innovation Decisions During WWII, the Navy tried to determine where they needed to armor their aircraft to ensure they and their crew came back home. They started tracking each and every bullet hole from each plane in the navy. With this data, they ran an analysis to see if there were any trends of where planes had been shot up. Based on the analysis, the conclusion was that they needed to increase the armor on the wingtips, on the top of the central body, and around the elevators. That’s where the data told them their planes were getting shot up.Abraham Wald, a statistician, disagreed. He thought they should put more armor in the nose area, engines, and the underside of the fuselage. Everyone immediately thought his proposal was crazy. That’s not where the planes were getting shot.Except - Mr. Wald realized what the others didn’t. What the Navy thought it had done was analyze where aircraft were suffering the most damage. What they had actually done was analyze where aircraft could suffer the most damage and still make it back. What about the places where the planes in their analysis were not shot? Put simply, planes that had been shot there crashed. They weren’t looking at the whole sample set, they only looked at the planes, and crews that survived. Did The Data Lie or Just Mislead? The data didn’t lie. The planes did get shot in the locations identified during the analysis. The data, however, did mislead. It was only part of the entire data set that should have been looked at. While data can be incredibly helpful when developing ideas that will become future innovations, we need to apply human insight and skepticism. Throwing in your gut feel may also be a good idea. If something seems incredibly obvious, that begs the question as to why and what is missing. Rarely are things that cut and dry. That obvious. Go beyond the obvious and use your curiosity to ask that next question so that you can dig deeper and uncover some insight that others are not seeing. Be careful of assumptions. Be careful of using past experience or even what we think we see and then filling in the missing data. Impact on HP So what happened with the Mark Hurd approach at HP? With the emphasis on your numbers being compared to your competitors, it became clear that if your numbers were not “better” than theirs’ then you weren’t running your part of the business appropriately. The result was some bad business decisions such as cutting HP’s R&D spend to match the R&D spend of our Asia Pacific based competitors. I always found it interesting that the focus was always on cutting. Why wasn’t the decision made to increase the R&D spend to match that of Apple? That is a story is for another time. While I pushed back hard on this approach and specifically what was being done to R&D spend, my one regret was not pushing back even harder or finding a way to convince Mark and others on the folly of the approach. I didn’t find a way to play the “Abraham Wald” role at HP. One key lesson that I did learn from this experience was that the context of the information you are using to make innovation decisions is just as important as the data. Killer Question How could you challenge yourself and your team to take the “Abraham Wald” approach with the aircraft analysis? How can you go beyond the obvious and uncover an insight that is not obvious?
IBM is buying Red Hat. Topic acquired. Sponsored by DataDog This episode is sponsored by Datadog and this week Datadog wants you to know about Watchdog. Watchdog automatically detects performance problems in your applications without any manual setup or configuration. By continuously examining application performance data, it identifies anomalies, like a sudden spike in hit rate, that could otherwise have remained invisible. Once an anomaly is detected, Watchdog provides you with all the relevant information you need to get to the root cause faster, such as stack traces, error messages, and related issues from the same timeframe. Sign up for a free trial (https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk) today at https://www.datadog.com/softwaredefinedtalk and tell them your friends at Software Defined Talk sent you. IBM and Red Hat Acquisition IBM Nears Deal to Acquire Software Maker Red Hat (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to-acquire-software-maker-red-hat) IBM To Acquire Red Hat, Completely Changing The Cloud Landscape And Becoming World's #1 Hybrid Cloud Provider (https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-28-IBM-To-Acquire-Red-Hat-Completely-Changing-The-Cloud-Landscape-And-Becoming-Worlds-1-Hybrid-Cloud-Provider) Banks could reap as much as $115 million for orchestrating the IBM-Red Hat deal (https://www.thisisinsider.com/ibm-red-hat-largest-software-bank-fees-2018-10) Cloud Wars Forcing Irrational Open Source Takeovers (https://medium.com/futuresin/cloud-wars-forcing-irrational-open-source-takeovers-1ce096c53b19) Red Hat and IBM: Elephants Can Dance (https://www.aniszczyk.org/2018/10/29/red-hat-and-ibm-elephants-can-dance/) Armed with Red Hat, IBM launches a cloud war against Amazon, Microsoft and Google | ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/armed-with-red-hat-ibm-launches-a-cloud-war-against-amazon-microsoft-and-google/) Analysis: Red Hat’s continued independence is key to success of IBM’s $34B acquisition (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/analysis-red-hats-continued-independence-key-success-ibms-34b-acquisition/) IBM Acquires Red Hat — What This Means for Open Source (https://blog.usejournal.com/ibm-acquires-red-hat-what-this-means-for-open-source-d236d680da5b) Statement on the IBM acquisition of Red Hat from Ubuntu (https://blog.ubuntu.com/2018/10/30/statement-on-ibm-acquisition-of-red-hat) Big Blue Puts on a Red Hat: IBM Acquires Red Hat (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/10/30/ibm-red-hat/) Big Blue’s takeover of Red Hat could produce an über-cloud (https://www.economist.com/business/2018/10/30/big-blues-takeover-of-red-hat-could-produce-an-uber-cloud) Blockbuster IBM-Red Hat Deal Draws Support – and Concerns for the ‘Spirit of Linux’ (https://www.enterprisetech.com/2018/10/29/blockbuster-ibm-red-hat-deal-draws-support-and-concerns-about-the-spirit-of-linux/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blockbuster-ibm-red-hat-deal-draws-support-and-concerns-about-the-spirit-of-linux) “I like the ones where you prepare.” (Coté ed.) Look, Red Hat and IBM are Pivotal competitors, good ones: we wish them success in this complex integration, it’s good they’re finally trying to fix their cloud portfolio, we’re hiring, etc., etc.. Let’s take it for mature-granted that we’d prefer enterprises be Pivotal customers than IBM/Red Hat customers. Now, let’s put that aside. This is an exquisite slide from their deck (https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-RED-HAT-Charts-10-2018.pdf): https://d2mxuefqeaa7sj.cloudfront.net/s_F8186D6801E202DEB03199A6D1F610BAB9CB91A2CFD988A2666F991EBC2E6CC0_1541067546607_image.png Easily the best corporate deck slide of 2018. First, this is a bold, good move. Acquiring Red Hat has always been a hill too high and it’s kind of mind-blowing that someone actually did it. The valuation here is sort of besides the point of anything impressive. In contrast, the GitHub valuation was impressive because GitHub is a one product company (please don’t email me about “community” as a separate product - sure thing, I agree). Red Hat is kind of everything IBM has missing…except public cloud. To be, I guess, contrarian and annoyingly not Pivotal-biased, I think it’ll be hard for IBM to fuck this up. On that last point, Ben Thompson (https://stratechery.com/2018/ibms-old-playbook/): “The company has spent the years since then claiming it is committed to catching up in the public cloud, but the truth is that Palmisano sealed the company’s cloud fate when he failed to invest a decade ago; indeed, one of the most important takeaways from the Red Hat acquisition is the admission that IBM’s public cloud efforts are effectively dead.” In other word, IBM is too late to catch-up to public cloud co.’s, it’d need to spend lots of capex to get close. Related, sick nerd burn: “Meanwhile, [IBM’s] aforementioned commitment to the cloud has mostly been an accounting fiction derived from re-classifying existing businesses” Fixing IBM’s cloud business. What was wrong in the first place? Things Red Hat has: RHEL revenue, JBoss developer presence, product/developer know-how, support know-how, OSS good-will, OpenShift as a k8s distribution: RHEL & IBM has a foot-print in most all enterprise stacks, but not public cloud(?) IBM knows how to eek out OS revenue, so does Red Hat. JBoss + WebSphere. At some point, IBM had a huge developer community. They likely do among enterprise developers (but even there, it’s been fading). Red Hat has developers - I assume. People do like kubernetes. The know-how and good will are interesting - added to IBM’s OSS equivalent (they still have that?) you have, potentially, the biggest OSS people around…? I’m not sure which standards bodies this allows them more control over, no which projects. Google and Microsoft are contenders here too. “Lock-in”: From the press release: “research shows that 80 percent of business workloads have yet to move to the cloud, held back by the proprietary nature of today’s cloud market.” (No citation provided. I will assume it’s from the Anonymous Galactic Research Board Whose IP Licensing Policy Prohibits Your From Citing Us By Name Because We Prefer to Peacefully Float In Space Like Those Rasta Dudes in William Gibson Books But The Good Early Ones Not The Weird In The Present Ones Except For the Blue Color of Bigend’s Suit Which Was Actually Pretty Cool - But Cuban Parkour Ninja Cults? Boy.) See also: Turns out Pareto was some kind of every single study ever genius. Shut it down, boys, turns out every survey result ends up in an 80/20 split. As ever, this topic vexes me. I take lock-in to mean: I don’t want to keep paying this rent-seeker, aka, “maintenance contracts - AMIRIGHT?.” I’m just interested in paying less. If you gave me a closed source offering that was free, I’d be just as happy. I don’t want to get trapped in an aging stack that isn’t evolving (e.g., I want to use node.js on UNIVACs, or something), so I need “the freedom to leave” to get the benefits of new technologies. I like having the source code for transparency, to make my own forks, and/or because rainbows and sandals. Like, seriously, what options do you have to move to? DIY stack - you’re going to take the IBM/Red Hat stack and run it all on your own, merging in new releases and patches, even forking and evolving it yourself. Will all the IBM stuff be available? What if you run on VMware or Azure or Softlayer? How do you rebuild that entire stack? So you just want to rebuild a little bit of it? If you throw OpenStack with KVM in there, plus whatever SDN and storage stuff you could get in open source, throw in some OSS network routing…you could get away with the only proprietary thing being chips and other rando hardware things. You’ll need some bare-metel BIOS/firmware update things. Begged question: how far (and up!) the stack do you want to be un-proprietary? Only use OSS Android on jail-broken phones? No iPhones, clearly, and toss out Safari, macOS, and Windows - maybe you can cruise in with some HTML5 stuff through Firefox and Chrome on the desktop and mobile, then on some Eclipse for GUIs? AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, AzureStack, Pivotal ready stack with VMware - perhaps you could take the thin k8s and PaaS layer from the Red Hat IBM stack and move it to those clouds? Will that work? Is it better, economically and innovation roadmap-ally than just sticking with IBM/Red Hat Alibaba and the other non-Western clouds. Same. MSPs like Rackspace. Maybe - the Rackspace people could just run whatever you want. See concerns of #1, plus the premium paid for “fanatical.” Maybe Rackspace has some SRE magic that allows them to do what you’d be doing at 80% of the cost, or something. I don’t understand this reasoning. How is IBM + Red Hat lack of “proprietary nature”? If I’m running an IBM/RedHat stack, can I just move off all my workloads over night, paying nothing to move and then run my workloads, like, perfectly? If I’m running on that stack, and then I want to move to Google Cloud, does that work? Where-else would I go? Can I just take my pods and throw them onto Azure? Also, if any of these are practically true - it’s a shitty business for IBM/Red Hat to be in, at least a huge risk for them to carry. Any time a customer cashes in on freedom to leave, that’s lost revenue to IBM/Red Hat. My point is: I wish we’d stop talking about lock-in and focus on more practical matters, namely, does the technology work, does it work in a good ecosystem/community (I can find and make it work with other stuff), does it evolve/innovate at a pace I like, and am I happy with the initial and ongoing costs. If the answer to all of those is yes, I don’t think people care about OSS versus closed. But what do I know, I don’t know such stuff, I just do slides. What really matters is getting the two sales forces to sell each other’s stuff, esp. accelerating OpenShift. The IBM sales force has to sell moving away from their traditional offerings (WebSphere, 3 tier, etc.) and instead sell modernizing to OpenShift. That’s fine, but a lot to ask. Also, the comp. plans might get dicey. Part of the point of modernizing is to reduce costs, implying a lower up-front deal-size and smaller ongoing deal-size. So, you’re asking the IBM rep to sell cheaper products, potentially. And if you’re not, see lock-in screed above on pricing. There’s not much upside to sales people here, aside from maybe holding onto an eroding market, but that’s years out, sales people are short-term focused by design. Red Hat sales people might fare better because they’re used to that deal size and can sell more; however, IBM sales people will resist these Red Hat people getting into their account and snatching their paper. All of this is not a killer, but likely the bulk of work that needs to be nailed to synergize maximally (my favorite type of synergizing). Brandon’s winners/looses, also O’Grady’s (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/10/30/ibm-red-hat/). Cloud Earnings Amazon says AWS revenue jumped 46 percent in third quarter (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/25/aws-q3-results.html) Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue jumped 47 percent in its fiscal Q1, but Azure growth slows (https://www.geekwire.com/2018/microsofts-commercial-cloud-revenue-jumped-47-percent-fiscal-q1-azure-growth-slows/) Google Cloud Revenue Boosts Alphabet’s Earnings - SDxCentral (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/google-cloud-revenue-boosts-alphabets-earnings-but-wall-streets-not-impressed/2018/10/) Relevant to your interests Oracle Open World 2018: CEO Mark Hurd says SAP ERP customers will defect (https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252451138/Oracle-Open-World-2018-CEO-Mark-Hurd-says-SAP-ERP-customers-will-defect) Atlassian reimagines Jira to herd cats, a.k.a. developer teams (https://diginomica.com/2018/10/24/atlassian-reimagines-jira-herd-cats-developer-teams/amp/) Serverless Architecture Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis (https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/4661572/serverless-architecture-market-size-share-and) Werner Vogels responds to CNBC story about Amazon Outage (https://twitter.com/Werner/status/1054901529478459392) Conferences, et. al. Nov 3rd to Nov 12th - SpringOne Tour (https://springonetour.io/) - all over the earth! Coté will be MC’ing Beijing Nov 3rd, Seoul Nov 8th, Tokyo Nov 6th, and Singapore Nov 12th (https://springonetour.io/2018/singapore). Nov 14th to 16th - Devoxx Belgium (https://devoxx.be/), Antwerp. Coté’s presenting on enterprise architecture (https://dvbe18.confinabox.com/talk/ASN-9274/Rethinking_enterprise_architecture_for_DevOps,_agile,_&_cloud_native_organizations). Dec 12th and 13th - SpringTour Toronto (http://springonetour.io/2018/toronto), Coté. Listener Feedback Jon from the UK said he got a new work laptop and needed some new stickers so we sent him some. SDT news & hype Join us in Slack (http://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com/slack). Send your postal address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com (mailto:stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com) and we will send you a sticker. Brandon built the Quick Concall iPhone App (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quick-concall/id1399948033?mt=8) and he wants you to buy it for $0.99. Recommendations Matt: The Dark Forest (https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Forest-Remembrance-Earths-Past-ebook/dp/B00R13OYU6/). Brandon: Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/) The Daily 10/31 — The Business of Internet Outrage (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/podcasts/the-daily/mad-world-news-facebook-internet-anger.html) Coté: Trick-or-treating in Amsterdam. Notablity still good.
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Nothing is forever. Especially when it comes to running a multi-billion-dollar public company. This week, in a Fortt Knox podcast special, we're going to do a little retrospective … interviews with CEOs who, for now at least, are no longer CEOs. I've been doing this podcast for more than a year and a half, so I've sat down with dozens and dozens of top executives, founders and entrepreneurs. Inevitably, change happens. Sometimes the company's board of directors wants a new strategic direction. Sometimes power struggles erupt. Sometimes personal failings come to light. This time, the lessons from the highest achievers come with an asterisk. Just because you reach the top of an organization doesn't mean you'll stay there. I would add another: Just because these execs are no longer in their old jobs, don't assume they're done. When Steve Jobs was shoved out of Apple in the '80s, he went on to found NeXT, build Pixar, and return to Apple. Mark Hurd was ushered out of HP and landed what turned out to be a better gig at Oracle. We start with Brian Krzanich, who was CEO at Intel until three weeks ago. That's when Intel's board of directors learned he'd had a relationship with an Intel employee that violated company policy. I got to know Krzanich when he took over the CEO job from Paul Otellini. Brian likes to be called BK, and I quickly learned that he's most comfortable holding onto his identity as an engineer rather than thinking of himself as a corporate executive. The most memorable part of my conversation with him in January 2017: When he revealed a different kind of mistake earlier in his career that almost cost him his job at Intel. Mark Fields is another executive who'd spent a long time at his company and climbed to the top before his exit. The bottom line on his departure: The stock wasn't doing well, and some within the company lost patience. Fields was in the CEO seat about three years, and my CNBC colleague Jim Cramer thinks he wasn't given enough time to really make his mark. When Mark and I talked in April of last year about his path to the top of Ford, he said he developed a reputation for volunteering to tackle big problems: Speaking of boardroom drama, Qualcomm right now has one of the most dizzying situations in techland. The company's locked in a legal battle with Apple over patent payments, it just fended off a hostile takeover attempt from rival Broadcom with an assist from the U.S. federal government, and former CEO and chairman Paul Jacobs – the son of founder Irwin Jacobs – left the board and is trying to raise money to take the company private. Paul Jacobs sat down with me in June of last year and talked about his commitment to Qualcomm. If you think he might give up his fight where the company's concerned, just listen to this: Sir Martin Sorrell built WPP by putting together various ad firms and PR businesses into an empire the likes of which the industry had never seen. He resigned from the company in April with allegations swirling about personal misconduct and misuse of company resources. He has denied those allegations, and is in the process of relaunching his career with a new venture called S4 Capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Last week I published an article on the new partnerships between Universal Tennis Ratings and the two major coaching certification organizations, USPTA and PTR (click here to read the article). And this week UTR announced another new partnership with Chinese Tennis organization Love Sports. Now, you have the opportunity to hear from UTR's CEO, Mark Leschly, about how UTR works and what's in store for the future. Since there seem to be a lot of misconceptions around UTR and its algorithm, I thought this would be a great chance to clear up some things and give you a peek behind the curtain. Universal Tennis is the company behind UTR powered by Oracle, a revolutionary system that provides a single, unifying language and standard for tennis players across ages, geographies and genders. The company’s vision is to unify tennis for everyone by bringing cutting edge analytics and community based technology to players worldwide independent of level. UTR is a unique, algorithm-based system for tennis that allows anyone to measure, identify and track their level relative to other players, while also providing tools for coaches and organizers to run UTR Powered Events that are level based rather than age or gender driven. Today the UTR powered by Oracle system is gathering data over 6.5 million match results, across 700 thousand players in over 200 countries. The Company is owned by Iconica Partners (www.iconicapartners.com) and other seasoned investors, advisors and operators in tennis, sports, technology and media. Partners include Ken Solomon, President of Tennis Channel; Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle; Jan Leschly, former CEO of Smithkline Beecham and ATP Top 10; Ken Hao, Managing Partner, Silver Lake Partners; Tennis Media Company; and the LA Dodgers investment group. To sign up for UTR powered by Oracle, please visit www.MyUTR.com. Mark Leschly combines both an in depth knowledge and experience in sports and tennis with nearly 25 years of entrepreneurial management and investment in technology led businesses as a venture capitalist and startup CEO. He is a former ATP ranked player selected to the Danish Davis Cup, two time Captain and #1 player for Harvard Men’s Tennis and a member of the USTA Foundation Advisory Board and USTA Player Development Council. Mark is the Founder and Managing Partner of Iconica Partners, a principal firm investing at the interface of sports, media and technology. He is an owner in several sports teams and leagues including the Los Angeles Football Club (Major League Soccer team in LA), Professional Fighters League (a new MMA league), Team Liquid (esports) and Oklahoma City Dodgers (AAA Minor League baseball team). He is an owner and Managing Partner of Rho Capital Partners, a leading technology focused venture capital and private equity firm with over $2.5B under management (www.rho.com). Mark received an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. with honors from Harvard University where he played tennis all four years. Thank you to STØNE for our music! You can find more of his music at SoundCloud.com/stonemuzic If you’re so inclined, please share this – and all our episodes! – with your tennis community. You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or via the ParentingAces website.
Randy talks with Business and Executive Jason Treu about workplace engagement. Justin has worked with Silicon Valley royalty and Fortune 500 companies. He says disengaged workers are costing the economy $550 billion in lost productivity.About Justin Treu:Graduated with law degree and Masters in Communications from Syracuse UniversitySpent seven years in Silicon Valley working with transformational leaders such as Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, Mark Hurd and others at companies such as Apple, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Pixar, Yahoo! and many othersHelped clients meet top influencers such as Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Peter Diamandis, Chris Anderson and othersWrote a #1 best seller, Social Wealth, that’s been #1 in four business categories on Amazon, and sold over 40,000 copiesBeen a guest expert on more than 400+ podcasts, radio, and TV shows in the past yearStudied and learned hands-on from the top experts in the world such as Tony Robbins, Marie Forleo, Mastin Kipp, and Brene Brown, and at leading institutions such as Harvard, University of California Berkeley and Ken Blanchard CompaniesHas helped clients generate over a billion dollars in wealth over the past three years.Find out more about Jason at jasontreu.comAbout the podcast:This podcast is sponsored by 360 Solutions. 360 Solutions helps people start, build, and run successful business consulting firms. 360 Solutions' proven High Performance Framework has helped hundreds of companies reach their full potential for over 20 years. Ready to work for yourself and make an impact in your community? Visit 360solutions.com to learn how to get started.Get more info about this podcast, listen to past episodes, and sign up for updates and exclusives at hpleadershippodcast.comIf you found this podcast helpful, consider giving us a review. Every little bit helps. Giving your feedback ensures you hear the kind of quality content you’re looking for. Review the podcast here: http://bit.ly/hplreview See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mark Hurd, Oracle CEO, talks about the anemic growth of IT systems and the race for vertical integration, a day in the life of CEO and the benefit of sharing the responsibility of leadership with Safra Catz and Larry Ellison.
Jason Treu is an executive coach who works with senior leaders to help fully develop their leadership potential and increase their performance. He does this through deep self-inquiry, practical skill development, and shared experiences. Jason also has “in the trenches experience” helping build a billion dollar company and working with many Fortune 100 companies. He’s worked alongside well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd, Mark Cuban, and many others. Through his coaching and influential network, his clients have met industry titans such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Peter Diamandis, Chris Anderson, high profile VCs, and investment bankers. He’s also helped his clients create more than $1 billion dollars in wealth over the past three years and secure seats on influential boards such as TED and xPrize. What you’ll learn about in this episode Why it’s vital to seek out coaches & mentors in the areas that you need help with Why it’s harder than ever before to break through Creating an abundance mindset vs. a scarcity mindset How everyone at some point plateaus and gets stuck & strategies to get to the next level How being smart & performing is no longer what you need to be successful in an organization Why you need to be able to influence people throughout every step of your life The importance of getting out there and taking the next step, even if you don’t want to do it Why you need to master communication & social skill sets in order to thrive today The power of getting to know more about people and their interests outside of work Focusing on understanding the pillars of mastery How to best connect with Jason: Website: www.jasontreu.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jasontreu YouTube: youtube.com/user/jasontreucoaching Facebook: www.facebook.com/BeExtraordinaryNow
In this live interview, Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how Oracle transitioned its business to the cloud, which is the fastest-growing segment of all enterprise spending. Hurd says a large, process-laden company like Oracle can't risk getting complacent and out-innovated by smaller startups, and had to weather some unhappy investors on Wall Street for many quarters because building out cloud services takes time and money. He also talks about immigration policy, job automation and why Steve Jobs once told him he would hate to have Hurd's job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I'm not sure how we fit so much great content on building relationships, networking, leading, personal development, and igniting change... into just one episode, but we did! Jason Treu is a top business and executive coach who simplifies business problems and guides business leaders to previously unimagined accomplishments. He helps them find the shortest, simplest path to exponential success and to become visionary leaders. That's why his clients across the world call him the "CEO's Secret Weapon". Jason also has "in the trenches experience" helping build a billion dollar company and working with many Fortune 100 companies. He's worked alongside well known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd at HP, Mark Cuban, and many others. Jason has also published three books and his bestselling book, Social Wealth, the how-to-guide on building extraordinary business relationships that influence others, has sold more than 45,000 copies and has been #1 in four business categories. Show Notes: YourBestManager.com/JasonTreu
Jason is a top business and executive coach and sales leadership trainer. He's a leading expert on human behavior, influence, and relationship building. At the heart of his strategy is the understanding that people and your relationships are your true “wealth.” Everything we accomplish in life is with or through other people. He's worked with well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd at HP, and many others. He's helped his clients meet influencers such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and many others. He's also helped his clients make more than $1 billion dollars over the past 3 years and get on influential boards such as TED and xPrize. Jason's bestselling book, Social Wealth, the how-to-guide on building personal and professional relationships, has sold more than 45,000 copies and has been #1 in four business and self-help categories. He's been a featured guest on 500+ podcasts, radio and TV shows, and FOX News radio contributor. Jason has his law degree and masters in communications from Syracuse University. Links: http://www.jasontreu.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasontreu/ twitter.com/jasontreu https://www.instagram.com/jasontreu/
Jason Treu is a top business and executive coach and sales leadership trainer.Jason simplifies business problems and guides business leaders to previously unimagined accomplishments. He helps them find the shortest, simplest path to exponential success and to become visionary leaders. That's why his clients across the world call him the "CEO's Secret Weapon."Jason also has "in the trenches experience" helping build a billion dollar company and working with many Fortune 100 companies. He's worked alongside well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd (at HP), Mark Cuban, and many others.Through his coaching, his clients have met industry titans such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Peter Diamandis, Chris Anderson (Owner of the TED conference), high profile VCs and investment bankers, and many others. He's also helped his clients create more than $1 billion dollars in wealth over the past three years and secure seats on influential boards such as TED and xPrize.Jason has published three books. His bestselling book, Social Wealth, the how-to-guide on building extraordinary business relationships that influence others, has sold more than 45,000 copies and has been #1 in four business categories.He's been a featured guest on 500+ podcasts, radio and TV shows, and has been regular FOX News radio contributor.Jason has his law degree and masters in communications from Syracuse University.Learn more: www.jasontreu.comInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttp://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/
Jason Treu is a top business and executive coach and sales leadership trainer.Jason simplifies business problems and guides business leaders to previously unimagined accomplishments. He helps them find the shortest, simplest path to exponential success and to become visionary leaders. That's why his clients across the world call him the "CEO's Secret Weapon."Jason also has "in the trenches experience" helping build a billion dollar company and working with many Fortune 100 companies. He's worked alongside well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd (at HP), Mark Cuban, and many others.Through his coaching, his clients have met industry titans such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Peter Diamandis, Chris Anderson (Owner of the TED conference), high profile VCs and investment bankers, and many others. He's also helped his clients create more than $1 billion dollars in wealth over the past three years and secure seats on influential boards such as TED and xPrize.Jason has published three books. His bestselling book, Social Wealth, the how-to-guide on building extraordinary business relationships that influence others, has sold more than 45,000 copies and has been #1 in four business categories.He's been a featured guest on 500+ podcasts, radio and TV shows, and has been regular FOX News radio contributor.Jason has his law degree and masters in communications from Syracuse University.Learn more: www.jasontreu.comInfluential Influencers with Mike Saundershttp://businessinnovatorsradio.com/influential-entrepreneurs-with-mike-saunders/
Jason Treu is a business and executive coach and sales leadership trainer. He is also the author of Social Wealth [link] and a leading expert on human behavior, social influence, and relationship building. At the heart of his strategy is the understanding that people and relationships are our true “wealth.” Everything we accomplish in life is with or through other people. Jason graduated with law degree and a Masters in Communications from Syracuse University. He spent seven years in Silicon Valley working with transformational leaders such as Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, Mark Hurd and others at companies such as Apple, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Pixar, Yahoo! and many others. He has helped his clients meet top influencers, such as Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Tim Cook, Peter Diamandis, Chris Anderson and others. Jason's book has been a #1 best seller; has ranked #1 in four business categories on Amazon; and sold over 45,000 copies. In the past year, Jason has been a guest expert on more than 400 podcasts, radio, and TV shows. He has studied with and learned hands-on from some of the world's greatest experts, such as Tony Robbins, Marie Forleo, Mastin Kipp, and Brene Brown, and at leading institutions such as Harvard, University of California Berkeley and Ken Blanchard Companies. Over the past three years, Jason has helped his clients generate over a billion dollars in wealth. Jason lives in Dallas, Texas with a curious and energetic 15 year-old Jack Russell Terrier. He is active with charity events and cultural organizations (think, Dallas Museum of Art) and he is a huge sports fan (think, Cowboys and Mavericks). Jason also loves champagne and barbecue. Separately.
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Jason Treu was finishing law school. Interviews with prospective firms were beginning. When asked, “Do you have any questions for us," he tossed out what surely would be a softball question, “Are you happy?” One by one, the responses threw him a curve, and pointed him toward Silicon Valley. Today, he helps his clients get unstuck, find their purpose and take their careers to the highest levels. He has worked with well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs and Mark Hurd at Hewlett-Packard. He's helped his clients meet influencers such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and others.
Jason is a business and executive coach and sales leadership trainer. He’s a leading expert on leadership, culture, influence, and relationship building. Jason's worked with well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd at HP, and many others. He's helped his clients meet influencers such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and many others. He's also helped his clients create more than $1 billion in wealth over the past three years.
Jason Treu is a top business and executive coach and sales leadership trainer. He’s a leading expert on leadership, culture, influence, and relationship building. He helps his clients get unstuck and find their purpose, put the passion back in their lives, create additional wealth, and build social, communication, emotional, and leadership skill sets to take their business/career to the highest levels. He’s worked with well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd at HP, and many others. He’s helped his clients meet influencers such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and many others. Jason’s bestselling book “Social Wealth: the how-to guide on building personal and professional relationships” has sold more than 36,000 copies and has been #1 in four business and self-help categories. In this episode, Jason and Stacy discuss what it takes to grow your business from the early days of your business. Some highlights include: “If it doesn’t work, I can walk away from it.” At minute 5:00, Jason talks about jumping into his business and the unique challenges and advantages he faced. Consistently invest in yourself. At minute 9:00, Jason talks about what he does to work on his personal development. “I didn’t quite think through all of the business implications.” At minute 14:00, Jason talks about the challenges he faced when quitting his job and making his business a full-time venture. Calendar everything in. At minute 19:00, Jason talks about how you can get everyone to buy into your schedule as an entrepreneur. “Other people hold the keys to what you need to do.” At minute 29:00, Jason talks about why networking is so important. Ways to contact Jason: Website: www.beextraordinary.tv Book: “Social Wealth – How to Build Extraordinary Relationships By Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Lead and Network” Book: “Jump Start Your Social Life” Resources: Basecamp Hootsuite Evernote Google Apps *Business Rescue Road Map may be an affiliate or receive compensation from some of the business listed for referrals, as their “thank you” for sending you their way. However, we would never recommend any product or service unless we personally love the product and have great things to say about it. Our reputation is at stake and we would not jeopardize that!
Jason Treu - Finding Your Blind Spots Jaime Jay welcomes Jason Treu - Finding Your Blind Spots to the show today. Jason is a top business and executive coach. He's a leading expert on human behavior, influence, sales, networking and leadership. At the heart of his strategy is the understanding that people and your relationships are your true "wealth." Everything we accomplish in life is with or through other people.. Making a Move Jason worked in the technology field in the Silicone Valley of California. He had a great ride working with the likes of Mark Cuban, Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd to name a few. He acquired the invaluable skills of leadership, culture, teamwork, management and branding. He made the move to Dallas to be closer to his parents. He knew no one and had to build his entire life from scratch. He struggled for a while then curated a massive tribe of people that really love and care about him. Through the process he discovered he could help people through lifestyle coaching. Working at Apple Jason was working at Apple when Apple was just a blip on the radar. The company was a bottom feeder and it was an amazing opportunity. You really could not mess it up. Steve Jobs had such an optimism and had such great attention to detail that he took it from a blip to a giant. What you can't see is what holds you back - Jason Treu Jason's Executive Coaching Jason began by researching the coaching gurus. It led to finding his opportunity. There was not a book that related personal and business relationships. Every business and executive coach he researched were working with the externally healthy. Jason realized that his biggest flaws were internal andhe was the biggest thing holding himself back. Those flaws are all of the negative comments you make about your self. Your self-doubt. Share Jason's Episode 80 on Twitter If you would like to learn what Jason says next about identifying your self-doubt and finding your authentic self, listen to the episode by clicking on the download or the play button at the top of this article. To connect with Jason Treu - Finding Your Blind Spots, check out his links below and remember he welcomes all questions, comments and inquiries! Don't forget to mention you heard about Jason on Stop Riding the Pine:-) Be Extraordinary website Connect with Jason on Facebook Jason on LinkedIn Tweet Jason Jason YouTube Jason Treu on Google+ Jason's books Here are the highlights of my conversation with Jason Treu - Finding Your Blind Spots if you are in a hurry: Who is Jason Treu? (4:32 Mark) Working with Steve Jobs the intimidator (10:30 Mark) Understanding blind spots? (14:18 Mark) You are like mom and dad (18:40 Mark) What was Jason's break away moment? (27:10 Mark) Special Mentions: (iTunes Shout Out) Sunshine Star. Thank you to Alexis Ayala, for providing the incredible editing for this episode. If you need to find an audio editor, send Alexis an email at lex@slapshotstudio.com. Thank you to our awesome sponsor, Interview Valet, A professional concierge guest booking podcast service for hosts and guests - You be the Guest, We do the Rest! Check out their new website at InterviewValet.com. This episode of Stop Riding the Pine Podcast was brought to you by Done4YouWP.com Are you a busy coach, professional or agency looking to have your WordPress website headaches handled by your very own development team for wholesale prices? Then you should visit Done4YouWP.com to find the solution that best fits your current challenges with a full-scale approach to managing your WordPress website. Stop Riding the Pine is a lot of fun and we love sharing the shows we've done. We would greatly appreciate your assistance in helping us grow this show by not only downloading the episodes, but also sharing them. Leave comments and rate our show so we can make the show even better.
Jason is a top business and executive coach and sales leadership trainer. He’s a leading expert on leadership, culture, influence, and relationship building. He helps his clients get unstuck and find their purpose, put the passion back in their lives, create additional wealth, and build social, communication, emotional and leadership skill sets to take their business/career to the highest levels. He's worked with well-known CEOs such as Steve Jobs, Mark Hurd at HP, and many others. He's helped his clients meet influencers such as Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Richard Branson and many others. At the heart of his strategy is the understanding that people and your relationships are your true “wealth.” Everything we accomplish in life is with or through other people. Jason’s bestselling book, Social Wealth, the how-to-guide on building personal and professional relationships, has sold more than 36,000 copies and has been #1 in four business and self-help categories. Jason has his law degree and masters in communications from Syracuse University. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
The man suspected of killing nine people Wednesday night at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, was arrested. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13167 The encyclical on the environment that Pope Francis released is as much an indictment of the global capitalist economic order as it is an argument for the world to confront climate change. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13172 A Minnesota policy to hold some sex offenders after they complete prison sentences was ruled unconstitutional by a district court judge. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13161 According to the first analysis of genetic material, the 8,500-year-old Kennewick Man, found in Washington state—once thought to be related to Japanese and Polynesians—is Native American. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13173 The Supreme Court ruled that Texas is allowed to reject a license plate design that featured a Confederate battle flag. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13168 Jesse Jackson credits white conservative Pat Boone for doing "more for race relations through his music than any other performer". http://www.infobitt.com/b/13171 University accreditors hardly ever kick out the worst-performing colleges and lack uniform standards for assessing graduation rates and loan defaults. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13160 A paper in the journal Science reports an “unprecedented” surge in earthquakes in Texas, Oklahoma and other central U.S. states. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13170 Oracle hired Dave Donatelli, ex-HP head of enterprise business, to report to CEO Mark Hurd. Donatelli will head Oracle’s hardware business as well as servers, storage and networking products. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13165 Brian Williams finally admits he lied, as the NBC probe concludes with his transfer from "Nightly News" anchor to MSNBC. http://www.infobitt.com/b/13169 http://infobitt.com http://www.facebook.com/groups/infobitt http://twitter.com/infobitt
News Roundup and one of our most popular articles "10 Oracle Negotiation Myths" Oracle CEO issues warning to competitors Mark Hurd, Oracle’s CEO was very bullish about the future of Oracle in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street”, given on Thursday the 29th January. CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street“ The interview on CNBC.com can be found on this link http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000350362 In the interview Mark Hurd talks about his Cloud strategy, providing best of breed SaaS solutions for Marketing Automation, Human Capital Management in their own right as well as suites of applications. Larry Ellison CTO announces the new generation of Engineered Systems – Exadata X5 On January 21st Oracle’s CTO Larry Ellison presented Oracle’s strategy for reducing customer costs and increasing value with a new generation of engineered systems, including Oracle’s new Virtual Compute Appliance X5, Oracle FS1 Series Flash Storage System, and sixth-generation Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5. Software licensing trends present significant risks for unprepared businesses Oklahoman Published: February 1, 2015 I came across this very interesting article in the Oklahoman. Drew T. Palmer, an Oklahoma attorney with Crowe & Dunlevy’s Intellectual Property group, explains some pitfalls for businesses in licensing. Oracle and Samsung joining forces for mobile cloud collaboration? The Korean Times reported a meeting between Oracles’ CEO Mark Hurd and Samsung’s mobile chief Shin Jong-Kyun. 10 Oracle Negotiation Myths – Part 1 Myth – “A widely held but false belief or idea.” In the Oracle eco-system a number of myths and misconceptions have grown up around purchasing from Oracle. These are myths I’ve heard from talking to customers regularly. Perhaps you also know a few you can share. Here are our top 10 Myths: My company is too small to get a good discount. Oracle say their products lines are not connected and won’t give me discount across all products. Oracle say I need to buy a ULA to solve a non compliance. I am told I can’t have products on a price hold that I have not bought. I want to do an annual true up like Microsoft but told I can’t. I want to buy licences using a non standard metric. I am told if I don’t buy this quarter the discount agreed will go. If I wait to the end of the quarter I will get a better deal. If I buy through a partner I will pay more. I can’t decrease my support and maintenance below 22%.
So news last month of Thomas Kurian, Larry Ellison and Flexcube in the cloud. The featured article this episode is one of our most popular posts, “5 Fatal Mistakes of Oracle licensing.” For all you kind people who have downloaded, please provide feedback and questions. We would love to address any questions on the show. I am currently reaching out to a bunch of very interesting people to have on the show. If you would like to be on the show please get in touch. Thomas Kurian Promoted to President Almost four months since Larry Ellison handed his CEO title to both Safra Catz and Mark Hurd, he has now promoted Thomas Kurian to President. The forty-eight year old was EVP for product development having started his Oracle career leading the Middleware strategy. He helped take Oracle to a leader in the Middleware with the suite of Middleware tools. Larry helps the critters Larry is clearly a busy man and is putting some of his substantial wealth to helping establish a Wildlife breeding and animal rehab centre in the Santa Cruz mountains. Read more at NBC The Bay Area News Oracle Cloud runs a new UK Bank Hampden & Co. will be running Oracle’s core banking solution Flexcube on Oracle cloud. Oracle will run the application as a managed service on Oracle Sparc T5 out of the UK Oracle data center in Linlithgow, just outside Edinburgh, Scotland. Hampden Group run a diversified set of services in the insurance and finance sectors. They announced last year that they would be taking a significant stake in a new bank for private clients called Hampden & Co plc. oracle licensing rules – 5 Fatal Mistakes “Five Fatal Oracle License Mistakes”, alright the title is a bit dramatic, but the following 5 mistakes crop up on such a regular basis that we at Madora believe they are worth reiterating. For those experienced with Oracle, they will know the following as classic gotchas and will keep an eye out. IT professionals and Procurement Officers new to the ways of Oracle may get caught out – so be warned. Let’s walk through some of the five common areas that often have disastrous consequences. The Five Fatal Mistakes are: 1. Virtualising without fully understanding the implications. The issue we see time after time is misunderstanding Oracle licensing on VMware. So why is this? It’s to do with server partitioning. Server partitioning can be very confusing; it is designed to limit the amount of processor resource available to a program; it is nothing to do with the Oracle Database Partitioning extra cost option – that is a means of partitioning data tables. Oracle simplifies server partitioning into two groups; the methods that it refuses to recognise as valid, known as “Soft Partitioning”; and those it accepts really do subdivide servers, known as “Hard Partitioning”. Probably the most popular server partitioning method is VMware, a very flexible form of partitioning and a great means of managing a datacentre. Guess what? It is soft partitioning for Oracle; this means that it is incredibly easy to fall foul of Oracle’s licensing rules. How your VCenter is set up, the clusters, the VMs, the storage architecture all have an impact on licensing. VMware publish guidelines on how to license Oracle but Oracle don’t support their view; great fun when it is your turn for Oracle’s regular license audit! Oracle’s approach to VMware has changed even further since the release of VMware Version 5.1 with its more advanced DRS/VMotion capabilities and its shared storage functionality. Seek independent help to review your architecture and any planned changes; don’t assume anything!! 2. Disaster Recovery scenarios not licensed correctly This can be a complex area with technologies changing all the time. We highly recommend you speak to Madora Consulting if you have any doubts as to whether you are correctly licensed for DR architectures. In general we advise that you assume you need to be licensed fully and then check to see if your scenario falls under failover and whether the 10 day rule applies. In terms of licensing be aware that you cannot mix metrics. In other words if processors are used for the primary site then the backup site also needs to be licensed by processor. A common mistake is believing that Named User Plus licenses can be used for the backup site – in the hope of saving money. You are better off ring fencing the DR servers contractually and negotiating a reduced cost for this license pool. Also make sure that the options and management packs are licensed, as these are often forgotten. In short, scenarios where the Primary and Secondary nodes share a SAN, with the secondary node acting as a failover, only the Primary needs to be licensed. This is valid as long as the failover to the secondary lasts less than 10 days per year, which includes any testing. Any standby or mirroring environments must be fully licensed. See the Oracle paper on DR pricing http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/data-recovery-licensing-070587.pdf 3. Non production environments not licensed. With Oracle you do need a valid license for development environments, test environments and any pre-production environments. This whole article assumes standard terms and conditions but you may have negotiated non standard options, so do check. Test and development must be correctly licensed. Use of OTN licenses does not necessarily mean you are licensed correctly for Development environments. (Note -the environment used by end users for business or other operations is called a production environment.) Oracle Technology Network licenses for development Some developers are aware of the Oracle Technology network where licenses can be downloaded. OTN does offer a restricted license grant but this too is often misunderstood. The OTN license is really for the use of a single developer whom wishes to try out a piece of software. The license is only allowed for one user and one server. We have seen cases of whole development teams assuming that the OTN licenses give them the right to develop an application as they have not moved into production but this is not the case. See below an extract from the OTN license document: “Customers also may download Oracle technology products from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) at http://otn.oracle.com/software/. In order to download an Oracle product from OTN, customers must signify their agreement to the terms of the OTN Development License. This limited license gives the user the right to develop, but not to deploy, applications using the licensed products. It also limits the use of the downloaded product to one person, and limits installation of the product to one server. Customers may not use products licensed under the OTN Development License in connection with any classroom activity, internal data processing operations, or any other commercial or production use purposes..” If you do use the OTN licenses and work within the restriction i.e. one user, one server as soon as the application developed moves into production the correct licenses must be purchased. We know from talking to Oracle that they do monitor downloads, particularly for the more specialised products and will look for inconsistencies, i.e. a known live environment with 20 downloads could imply that developers are using the software when they should be licensed. 4. Database options typically for the Enterprise Manager Packs are often installed by default but not purchased. This one still crops up either because the DBAs have installed the options as this is the default on installations or because the DBAs assume that the options have been purchased. The reality is that most DBAs really do need the testing, tuning and diagnostic packs. They are almost a prerequisite to managing Oracle estates. Most of us would almost regard them as part of the core database. Unfortunately they are still chargeable options so must be purchased. Some confusion still exists as the Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Database Control and Grid control are provided free of charge. But they need the chargeable packs to really add value and these need licenses to cover the applications that are being monitored. See an extract from Chapter 10 of the Oracle® Enterprise Manager Licensing Information (found on the home page of the OEM documentation) specifically states; “The base installation of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c includes several features free of charge with the purchase of any Oracle software license or Support contract”. It is not unusual for small to mid-sized groups to legally install a Cloud Control free of charge on a spare server in their area. As indicated, a basic install, with no frills, is included with any supported license. A very common pitfall for organisations facing difficulties with their Oracle license management comes from not having the right options granted and management packs installed for their needs. When the Oracle Enterprise Database Edition server is installed, by default all the enterprise options are installed too and it is important to know what you are actually using and whether you need it. There are two aspects to this, firstly you need to know what databases are installed and what editions they are i.e. standard or enterprise. Secondly, you need to know whether any management packs have been “accepted” or options “granted”, to use Oracle’s terminology. Interpreting this incorrectly can significantly affect licensing costs from anywhere between US$163,000 and US$800,000 per processor, because options and management packs require additional licensing and should not be present if not needed as this rapidly adds to the total cost. 5. License Minimums not understood, so Named User Plus licenses not counted correctly. A number of products have a minimum number of licenses that must be purchased, fairly standard software practice in the industry. However, there is added complexity with Oracle with some metrics such as Named User Plus. The mistake many people make is assuming that the number of Named User Plus licenses relates directly to the total number of the users of the system in use, unfortunately that is not always the case. For the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition there is a minimum of 25 Named User Plus per licensable processor. So even with NUPS you still need to understand two things; what a licensable processor is and how many do you have. This presents extra work and understanding on your part. From a compliance point of view you must own the larger of either the total number of users or the license minimums. The key points here are that a user is counted (at source) regardless of whether they actively use the Oracle programs and that non human devices are also counted. If you are using transactional processing monitoring software or using application/web servers then be sure to measure the users at the front end. For example, 1,000 users accessing a web application that connects to a back end database via an application server needs to count 1,000 users, even if the user is an anonymous system user between the application server and database. User minimums still need to be counted as well, so check the relevant user minimums table for the product in question. For Database Enterprise Edition you need the larger of either – processor count x 25 NUPS or User/devices. A licensed Named User Plus may access the Oracle technology on any instance (Production, Test, Development) or server throughout the organisation as long as the user minimums are met. Named User Plus licenses are decreasing in usage as Processor license metrics are increasingly easier to manage and make more sense when it is difficult to measure users.Example 1 Let’s say you have a non production environment used for staging and patch testing before roll out to the live financials systems, the application runs on Oracle Enterprise Edition. The non production environment is used by x 1 DBA, x 1 Financials Functional Consultant and x 1 Financials Developer. The common mistake is to assume that only x 3 Named User Licenses are required. Assuming you have no special contract terms then the license minimums kick in. So firstly we need to know the server(s) that the non production runs on. Let’s say you have two servers each with 8 cores (ask your infrastructure Manager to tell you the total number of cores per server). If you ask for the number of processors you may get the wrong answer, i.e one processor can have 8 cores, so you may use the processor count, which would be incorrect. It is licensable processors which we need and that is dependent on the core count. Think of cores as Olympic rowers sharing the same boat, it’s the number of rowers that impacts speed. We have a total of 16 cores and to determine the total number of licensable processors multiply the core count by the core multiplier. See our downloadable guide to useful oracle links to get the URL for the table. The core multiplier is dependent on the Chip manufacturer. If your Chip manufacture is Intel then simply multiply the core count by 0.5. So 16 x 0.5 = 8 Licensable Processors. Now each processor needs a minimum of 25 Named User Plus licenses. So we are looking at 25 x 8 = 200 Named User Plus Licenses. As this is the greater of the number of users/devices then this is the number required to be correctly licensed. Yes indeed! 200 Named Users required not 3! This is the gift that just keeps giving for Oracle. Don’t get caught out.Example 2 Lets look at the production environment for the live Financials systems. The application runs on Oracle Enterprise Edition on 2 servers with a total 16 cores. The environment is used by x 1 DBA, x 1 Financials Functional Consultant and x 1 Financials Developer with a total of 300 employees for Payroll. You know from the previous example that the minimums are 200 Named Users, but this is lower than the 300 employees (includes the DBA and 2 Developers.) Oracle therefore, no surprise here, requires 300 Named User licenses. Now although a Named User gives the right to access any server, the user minimums for the entire Oracle estate still apply. So for the production and non production environments, 300+200 = 500 named Users would be required. See a more detailed article on User Minimums The above are the most common costly mistakes Madora come across. Thank you for downloading. Please find more about us online at Madora.co.uk. Would love to hear from you. Drop me a line via email kay.williams@madora.co.uk
Hewlett-Packard says it's settled its lawsuit against Oracle. HP had filed suit to prevent former CEO Mark Hurd from working as Oracle's co-president.
A board's primary fiduciary responsibility is to ensure that a CEO is generating profits for shareholders but Mark Hurd's abrupt departure from the top job at Hewlett-Packard underscores how boards of directors do not judge a CEO's performance on company prosperity alone. Rather boards use a broad set of intangible criteria -- ranging from how well leaders are able to earn employees' trust to how well they deal with customers to how they conduct themselves off site -- as a way of evaluating success or failure. But these standards experts say can be extraordinarily difficult for boards to assess. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Hewlett-Packard today sued ex-CEO Mark Hurd to prevent him from taking a job at rival Oracle.
Hewlett-Packard today issued its first earnings report since the sudden ouster of CEO Mark Hurd, and shares of security software maker McAfee jumped on news that it's becoming a part of Intel.
Beginning Sunday, banks will no longer be able to charge certain overdraft fees unless the customer gives explicit permission. Also, HP faces a legal battle stemming from its board's ouster of CEO Mark Hurd.
Google and Verizon today unveiled a joint policy proposal on the controversial issue of net neutrality. Also, shares of Hewlett-Packard plunged as investors tried to make sense of CEO Mark Hurd's sudden resignation.
Hewlett-Packard announced this afternoon that CEO Mark Hurd has resigned effective immediately -- and Christina Romer, chief economic adviser to President Obama, is leaving her post and returning to UC Berkeley.
Mark Hurd, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of Hewlett-Packard, shared five tips he says he tries to incorporate into his daily leadership habits.
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