Michael Siteman Switches from (Huge) Digital Realty Trust to Boutique (small, elite) M-Theory Group, EVP of Cloud & DC

M-Theory Group announced Michael Siteman has joined their company as EVP of Cloud and Data Center Solutions.

Fast Growing Disruptive Technology Company Strengthens Resources

Los Angeles, CA – M-Theory Group (http://www.M-TheoryGrp.com) announced today that Michael Siteman has joined the firm to lead their Strategic Alliances, Origination and Product awareness.

Michael has a quote in the press release.

Michael Siteman comments “I have worked for very large organizations in the past, however I am very excited to bring my enterprise experience to a boutique firm, where my contributions will have an immediate effect. Chant Vartanian has developed a very unique, first of its kind, model that I am certain will revolutionize the Cloud industry. I am excited to play a key role.”

Michael has gone from some of the biggest companies to a small innovative services company for data center solutions.

Michael’s former employers include Digital Realty, Jones Lang LaSalle, Base Partners, and The Staubach Company.

M-Theory provides premier datacenter and colocation services. Offering SSAE 16 SOC 2 Type 2 Audited Internet Datacenters with multicarrier Internet connectivity, flexibility and full 24x7 managed services, virtualization, application delivery and continuity.

We also understand that you may require multiple datacenter relationships. With that in mind, M-Theory provides datacenter real estate services helping design and implement the ideal solution for your growing business strategy. Our managed services and application delivery strategy can be utilized at any datacenter worldwide.

Our consultancy approach allows you to source or build your optimal datacenter solution.

Flaw of Customer Research, customers inability to describe what they want when the don't know

A friend sent me this post by I, Cringely on creating solutions, Age of Supply, not Demand

Here are a few nuggets.

“Demand drove supply in the industrial age,” said Aurel. “You needed more steel to build cars so a new steel mill was built. But today it seems to me that supply is actually driving demand.”

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“You can’t rely on customers to tell you what to build,” said Aurel. “They don’t know.”

Some people think that money is what is needed to build innovation.  One example is Google going cheap vs. Excite being Sun Servers.

We see this effect over and over. Look at cloud computing, for example. It’s easy to argue that the genesis of cloud was Google’s desire to build its own hardware. Google was nailing motherboards to walls at the same time Excite (Google’s main search competitor at the time) was spending millions on Sun computers in a sleek data center. Google’s direction turned out to be the right one but that wasn’t immediately evident and might well have never happened had not Larry and Sergey been so cheap.

The whole idea of market research is turned on its head now a days.  In the past, companies would spend millions on customer research, and what are you building?  The next instagram.  What customer survey would tell you to build instagram?

Good Story on Undersea Fiber

We take Undersea Fiber for granted to connect the world.  Here is a great page to read and learn about the past and present state of undersea Fiber.

Check out what the Undersea Fiber was in 1999

and look at 2014

Google continues building a World Class Network

Too many times the data center issues are separate from networking issues.  Many times there have been so-called innovative data centers that are promoted, and when you dig behind the scenes the network is not up to the same quality as the data center.  Google is one of those who accounts for the relationship of the network with its data centers at all kinds of levels, and they invest long term to have best of breed network.

The latest announcement has Google’s Urs Hoelzle posting on a new Japan-USA 60 Tbps connection.

At Google we want our products to be fast and reliable, and that requires a great network infrastructure, whether it's for the more than a billion Android users or developers building products on Google Cloud Platform. And sometimes the fastest path requires going through an ocean. That’s why we’re investing in FASTER, a new undersea cable that will connect major West Coast cities in the US to two coastal locations in Japan with a design capacity of 60 Tbps (that's about ten million times faster than your cable modem). Along with our previous investments - UNITY in 2008 and SJC (South-East Asia Japan Cable) in 2011, FASTER will make the internet, well, faster and more reliable for our users in Asia. 

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The 6 partners represent Japan, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and USA (Google).

I think we can look forward to more consortiums networking the world.  Does your data center group have connections with the leading network thought leaders?

One of the interesting things to see is how Urs’s post is shared.  Not the upper right where there is an independent share of the fiber network project in Korea.

Some data on the Mobile Battle - iOS, Android, and distance last Microsoft

Here is a post by GigaOm’s Kevin Tofel on market share #’s for mobile.

Apple loses 5% of mobile enterprise share to Android, but it’s Microsoft that should worry

by Kevin C. Tofel

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photo: Microsoft

SUMMARY:

Android made gains in the workplace this last quarter according to Good Technologies but I doubt Apple is too concerned: It still leads by quite a bit and has a new IBM enterprise deal. Microsoft, however, is blip on the radar.

Here is the data to get your attention.

Much to the chagrin of companies such as Microsoft, BlackBerry and Google, Apple iOS devices are still dominating mobility in the enterprise. Apple’s hold over the workplace is diminishing, however, according to research from Good Technologies. The company, which tracks device activations in enterprises, published a mid-year report (PDF) suggesting Android is making gains over iOS.