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Software-Defined Anything is a platform for extraordinary innovation

Forbes.com has an interesting post about Gartner’s Top Ten Technology Trends for 2014, and, while I agree with virtually all of them, one jumped out at me: Software Defined Anything.  Software-defined anything (SDx) is defined by “improved standards for infrastructure programmability and data center interoperability driven by automation inherent to cloud computing, DevOps and fast infrastructure provisioning.” […]

Value Flow Across Industries

Value flows into and out of business designs, according to Adrian Slywotzky in “Value Migration”.  A key measure of that value flow is the price-to-sales ratio, which is the ratio of the market capitalization of a firm divided by its annual (or trailing twelve months) revenue. He asserts that a ratio greater than two indicates […]