I want to talk about Everett Rogers
Everett Rogers was a communications studies professor, and in 1962 he published a book titled Diffusion of Innovations. This book talks about how innovation spreads through a community of people by diffusion.
This work grew out of the work sociologists and anthropologists from the late 19th and early 20th century did around agricultural technology. In particular around how farmers adopted hybrid seed technologies.
HPE Discover 2019 was taking place in Las Vegas this week, and they made a lot of announcements, but I want to talk about their announcement of an additional hyperconverged product in their lineup, the Nimble dHCI.
AWS Re:invent is the annual AWS conference, but throughout the year, Amazon hosts summits in cities around the world. In this video I take a trip to the Chicago summit.
In this episode, I talk about some more of the companies I met on my most recent trip to the valley.
The companies featured are:
Lightstep - lightstep.com
Obsidian - obsidiansecurity.com
Orkus - Orkus.com
OverOps - overops.com
Retool - tryretool.com
Snowflake - snowflake.com
Split - split.com
Trifacta - trifacta.com
YugaByte DB - yugabyte.com
Many of the VC offices are built around a fabulous old tree. This one is from the courtyard of Lightspeed Venture Partners. We visited with Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock, Sutter Hill, Sequoia, and IVP.
In this episode, I focus on some of the portfolio companies I met with.
Companies discussed in this video are:
Blameless - blameless.com
Epsagon - epsagon.com
Fiddler - fiddler.ai
Several times a year, we take CIOs, CTOs, and other key decision makers of large enterprise companies to Silicon Valley to meet with Venture capital firms and Leadership of emerging tech companies, to get a good look at what is happening in the emerging technology space. These trip provide tremendous insight into what is happening in the market and provides a good overview of the trends that are driving investments.
I got a chance to sit down with some Nutanix customers at this years Nutanix .NEXT conference to talk about their experiences and their perspectives on the hyper converged market. It is always great to hear from the actual customers about their decision process and the problems they are looking to solve.
Nutanix held its annual .NEXT conference this year at the Anaheim Convention Center. Word was that about 7,000 people were in attendance. There is a lot happening in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure space now as the large legacy vendors look to make a place in this market. The growth of HPE, Dell, and Cisco in this space have legitimized the HCI market and brought new interest to the products.
I haver been getting a lot of Questions about my setup lately, so I figured I would run over a quick list of things I use to produce these videos.
Quick Update: Sorry I have been absent, I had a series of cascading computer failures that ended up with me swapping out a motherboard and the drive. I am back now with a bunch of pent up content that will be coming shortly.
I have spoken in the past about the changing nature of IT. Businesses are increasingly becoming IT organizations. This is being driven by data becoming a strategic asset and driving top-line revenue. As IT moves from being a cost center to a profit center, it also moves from the sole realm of the infrastructure groups to the lines of business. Gartner published a somewhat controversial statistic that CMOs have larger technology budgets than CIOs.
We regularly sponsor dinners where we invite company founders and VCs from the valley to tell their story and lead a small group of industry leaders in conversation around relevant technology trends.
At this dinner, we discussed the changing nature of cloud and the rise of SaaS.
One of the big themes at SXSW this year was the importance of Influencers, and in particular Micro-Influencers. BygMusic is a company founder by Krish Sharma, a Grammy winner, and Mike Alden. The idea is to source bands with a following and connect them to advertisers who see value in their fan base. This helps the Marketers reach audiences that have been challenging to access and it gives musicians a way to monetize their music.
This video is part 3 in the SXSW 2019 series. I focus on the Trade show and some of the interesting companies that were there.
Here is, finally, Part 2 of the SXSW video series. In this episode I focus on some of the reasons I feel this is the most important tech show of the year, Hyper Sciences, Sessions, and XR (VR, AR, MR). No video of SXSW is really complete without a bit of music, so I added in a little bit of Snaps For Sinners for your listening/viewing pleasure.
I am trying to catch up on all of the video I have from SXSW. Here is part 1 which focuses on the SXSW scene and “Activations.” For those unfamiliar with the term, “Activation” this is what they call branded experiences that companies put together. They take over businesses, empty buildings, parking lots, and parks. They transform these spaces into all manner of intriguing experiences.
