Coming Soon, Home Meal Planning Service - Gathered Table

A New Home Meal Planning Service is coming soon called Gathered Table.  Geekwire covers the soft launch.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz backs Gatheredtable, a new way for families to plan menus for the week

by John Cook on 3/26/2014 at 5:51 pm | 0 Comments

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Former Starbucks exec Mary Egan is looking to change the way Americans plan family meals.

If you’re like me, family dinner time is usually a mad scramble to find something to eat, typically resulting in a trip to the local Thai restaurant, burger joint or pizza parlor. And I’m not alone. About 60 percent of families don’t know what they’ll put on the dinner table that night.

Former Starbucks executive Mary Egan feels your pain. And she’s here to help with a new startup called Gatheredtable — an online service that automatically generates a menu of weekly meals, tailored for your families’ preferences.

I can think of a lot of people who could use this type of service with these benefits.

I enjoy cooking and cooking faster is not an objective.  By 7a in the morning I have already figured out what I want to cook for dinner and whether the kids will be around for dinner. The only thing really stressful about cooking is when other people are in my kitchen.  As long as people stay out of my kitchen stress is low. :-) I spend so much of the day on the computer and creating software services, the last thing I want to do is spend more time on the computer to figure out a meal and a recipe.  I like cooking because it is time when I am not looking at a smartphone, tablet, or computer.  Just have a beer or glass of wine and my pizza oven.

When will Amazon Expand to other Countries? Hints of Germany

One of the possibilities hinted from Andy Jassy’s talk at AWS Summit is AWS adding a data center in Germany.  The WSJ has a blog post on this.

Amazon Hints at New German-Based Data Center

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By Rachael King and Michael Hickins

Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon.com Inc.AMZN -0.05%’s Amazon Web Services unit, says the company is prioritizing where it locates data centers, and Germany is “one of the few countries” where customers are asking for a data center “on their own soil.” He said that the company has “significant business in Germany,” and that Amazon is likely to build data centers “in multiple major countries over time.”

Can you see the IOT Vaporware? Missing things like integration and features

I was reading GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham post on the Vaporware associated with connected devices.

How to recognize the three types of connected device vaporware

by Stacey Higginbotham

MAR. 28, 2014 - 1:02 PM PDT

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photo: Thinkstock/Pavel Losevsky

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After the launch of a connected device, for many people the waiting begins. They are waiting for the actual product, or an integration or even a promise that the device can’t deliver.

Earlier this week I was at OSIsoft’s User Conference and one of the lessons I learned years ago is integrating the machine data is much harder than people think.  Why?  Because interfaces that are in the specification may be in beta or not work at all.  Or if they do work, they may have latency issues when information is passed from a sensor to a gateway type of device that is responsible for communications.  This is like bad drivers.

The integration of low level communications is not the sexy stuff and gets dropped on the cutting room floor to ship.

How many of you have tried to integrate systems and been frustrated when a piece of hardware doesn’t communicate the way you thought.  As Mike Manos told me once we can show you the pieces of equipment we have in the data center just don’t share how we did the integration.  The integration is the hard stuff.  But too many times this hard stuff is not valued by those who make the purchasing decisions.

Google's Cloud Event favored over AWS Summits Mar 25-26, 2014

I was in SF this week for three days of conference and meetings.   I didn’t make it to the Google Cloud Event.  I did go to the AWS Summit.  My friends who went to the Google Cloud event said great things about the event and how good the party was.  The same friends and I agreed the AWS Summit Keynote was so boring.  There were hundreds of people who walked out of the keynote.  Why?  The AWS event spent time explaining the AWS stack, going over every component.

There were friends online were making fun of the presentation being so boring.  This presentation could have been made at a Gartner conference, and even included Gartner quotes

This messaging made sense given the big push was for Amazon Workspaces.

If you want to see how boring the AWS Summit Keynote was you can watch the video along with the other 763 views.

Or you can watch the Google Cloud video with the other 6,266 views.

I am taking the time to watch Urs.  Good stuff if you want to develop some Cloud apps.  If I watched the AWS I would probably fall asleep listening to how AWS is right for the Enterprise.

New Data Center Analyst at 451 Research - Dan Harrington

The data center community is a small one, yet important and whose influence in the industry continues to grow.  One of the new arrivals to the Data Center Analyst community is Dan Harrington with 451 Research.  I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Dan and he has a solid understanding of how the data center works.  Here is Dan’s LinkedIn profile.

Daniel Harrington

Research Manager, Enterprise Datacenters at 451 Research

Dan worked on IT Capacity Planning at Pfizer, then Research Analyst at IDC.  He moved out to Seattle to work for Microsoft in a few positions and he is moving back to Boston to join the 451 Research team working on Enterprise Data Centers.