The New Stack Podcast

Up to this point, we haven’t talked a lot about Equinix here in The New Stack. From a data center operator’s perspective, that’s a bit like discussing the solar system but avoiding mention of Jupiter. For a great many IT professionals, Equinix is a daily subject of consideration, a fact of their lives, like electricity and coffee.

“Equinix was a company that was historically peer-to-peer networking,” explained Equinix’ director of global solutions marketing, Lauren Cooney, in an interview with Alex Williams for The New Stack Makers, “where data centers would be the place where all the traffic would come. And they would exchange capacity, and things along those lines.

Hear more about how Equinix is assembling its softer, more abstract, data center connection strategy in How Equinix is Architecting the Digital Edge, part of The New Stack Makers recorded at the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qf98Pbw-Y7Y

As the idea of deploying and managing applications at scale matures, it comes time for organizations to reconsider their business rationales.  Staging their business operations on platforms means, at some level, moving their business models to those platforms as well — which could be more like a heart and lung transplant, rather than just the latter.

Mendix CTO Johan den Haan told Alex Williams, during the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, that his company’s mobile apps development platform — built around a Cloud Foundry nucleus — is being engineered with this emerging fact in mind.  At the same time, it’s important that professional programmers be replaced with business managers in the development process.

“So I see it as a spectrum, where you have applications that can be built by citizen developers,” den Haan continued, “[and] that can be built by more tech-savvy business engineers, domain experts.”  This comment prompted Chip Childers, co-founder and vice president of technology for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, who also joined us for this interview, to underscore the relevance of business engineering with the Mendix platform.

Hear more from Childers and den Haan as they reassemble the landscape of digital business, in this latest edition of The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FI0xfouGOGE

As the idea of deploying and managing applications at scale matures, it comes time for organizations to reconsider their business rationales.  Staging their business operations on platforms means, at some level, moving their business models to those platforms as well — which could be more like a heart and lung transplant, rather than just the latter.

Mendix CTO Johan den Haan told Alex Williams, during the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, that his company’s mobile apps development platform — built around a Cloud Foundry nucleus — is being engineered with this emerging fact in mind.  At the same time, it’s important that professional programmers be replaced with business managers in the development process.

“So I see it as a spectrum, where you have applications that can be built by citizen developers,” den Haan continued, “[and] that can be built by more tech-savvy business engineers, domain experts.”  This comment prompted Chip Childers, co-founder and vice president of technology for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, who also joined us for this interview, to underscore the relevance of business engineering with the Mendix platform.

Hear more from Childers and den Haan as they reassemble the landscape of digital business, in this latest edition of The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FI0xfouGOGE

As the idea of deploying and managing applications at scale matures, it comes time for organizations to reconsider their business rationales.  Staging their business operations on platforms means, at some level, moving their business models to those platforms as well — which could be more like a heart and lung transplant, rather than just the latter.

Mendix CTO Johan den Haan told Alex Williams, during the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, that his company’s mobile apps development platform — built around a Cloud Foundry nucleus — is being engineered with this emerging fact in mind.  At the same time, it’s important that professional programmers be replaced with business managers in the development process.

“So I see it as a spectrum, where you have applications that can be built by citizen developers,” den Haan continued, “[and] that can be built by more tech-savvy business engineers, domain experts.”  This comment prompted Chip Childers, co-founder and vice president of technology for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, who also joined us for this interview, to underscore the relevance of business engineering with the Mendix platform.

Hear more from Childers and den Haan as they reassemble the landscape of digital business, in this latest edition of The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FI0xfouGOGE

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington is, on its face, a single research facility that just happens to claim the largest repository of human health data anywhere in the world.  But that repository is by virtue of a unique organizational structure that flips the whole question of hybridizations on its ear (assuming that such an organization keeps its ears in the same place).  From the perspective of the applications it uses, IHME is a hybrid organization.  A few hundred research facilities worldwide, all of whom have some responsibility for gathering healthcare data, also share it.

This special edition of The New Stack Makers is not just about abstract infrastructure and multi-tenancy.  This is a use case whose results lead to insights about the way countries and cultures can better treat their own people — helping them avoid death and improve their quality of life.  In a world where good healthcare often stands precariously perched on the precipice, the sharing of information could become a lifeline for tens of thousands.

Listen now to this story of Navops, the IHME, and the real reason we work with infrastructure and automation every day.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington is, on its face, a single research facility that just happens to claim the largest repository of human health data anywhere in the world.  But that repository is by virtue of a unique organizational structure that flips the whole question of hybridizations on its ear (assuming that such an organization keeps its ears in the same place).  From the perspective of the applications it uses, IHME is a hybrid organization.  A few hundred research facilities worldwide, all of whom have some responsibility for gathering healthcare data, also share it.

This special edition of The New Stack Makers is not just about abstract infrastructure and multi-tenancy.  This is a use case whose results lead to insights about the way countries and cultures can better treat their own people — helping them avoid death and improve their quality of life.  In a world where good healthcare often stands precariously perched on the precipice, the sharing of information could become a lifeline for tens of thousands.

Listen now to this story of Navops, the IHME, and the real reason we work with infrastructure and automation every day.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington is, on its face, a single research facility that just happens to claim the largest repository of human health data anywhere in the world.  But that repository is by virtue of a unique organizational structure that flips the whole question of hybridizations on its ear (assuming that such an organization keeps its ears in the same place).  From the perspective of the applications it uses, IHME is a hybrid organization.  A few hundred research facilities worldwide, all of whom have some responsibility for gathering healthcare data, also share it.

This special edition of The New Stack Makers is not just about abstract infrastructure and multi-tenancy.  This is a use case whose results lead to insights about the way countries and cultures can better treat their own people — helping them avoid death and improve their quality of life.  In a world where good healthcare often stands precariously perched on the precipice, the sharing of information could become a lifeline for tens of thousands.

Listen now to this story of Navops, the IHME, and the real reason we work with infrastructure and automation every day.

There was a time when business processes were presumed to be the bedrock foundation of a company — when what one did and how it went about doing it, was thought to define the nature of that company for decades hence.  But as Opal Perry, Allstate’s vice president for technology and strategic ventures, told The New Stack’s Alex Williams, competition in today’s business centers around servicing customers.  And those customers’ changing expectations — changed all too often by competitors — form the foundations of modern businesses.  So it’s critical that those foundations be flexible and even malleable.

As the intellectual shift proceeds, how does an institution founded in 1931 continue to institute the tremendous changes ahead for its business processes, while simultaneously reinforcing its image of providing “steady hands” for the customers facing sudden changes in their lives?  Listen now to 'Allstate Navigates a Sea Change in Business Processes', part of The New Stack Makers from the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tLn0z-M-18E

There was a time when business processes were presumed to be the bedrock foundation of a company — when what one did and how it went about doing it, was thought to define the nature of that company for decades hence.  But as Opal Perry, Allstate’s vice president for technology and strategic ventures, told The New Stack’s Alex Williams, competition in today’s business centers around servicing customers.  And those customers’ changing expectations — changed all too often by competitors — form the foundations of modern businesses.  So it’s critical that those foundations be flexible and even malleable.

As the intellectual shift proceeds, how does an institution founded in 1931 continue to institute the tremendous changes ahead for its business processes, while simultaneously reinforcing its image of providing “steady hands” for the customers facing sudden changes in their lives?  Listen now to 'Allstate Navigates a Sea Change in Business Processes', part of The New Stack Makers from the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tLn0z-M-18E

There was a time when business processes were presumed to be the bedrock foundation of a company — when what one did and how it went about doing it, was thought to define the nature of that company for decades hence.  But as Opal Perry, Allstate’s vice president for technology and strategic ventures, told The New Stack’s Alex Williams, competition in today’s business centers around servicing customers.  And those customers’ changing expectations — changed all too often by competitors — form the foundations of modern businesses.  So it’s critical that those foundations be flexible and even malleable.

As the intellectual shift proceeds, how does an institution founded in 1931 continue to institute the tremendous changes ahead for its business processes, while simultaneously reinforcing its image of providing “steady hands” for the customers facing sudden changes in their lives?  Listen now to 'Allstate Navigates a Sea Change in Business Processes', part of The New Stack Makers from the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tLn0z-M-18E