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I use the inbox as a to-do list for all e-mails I have to do something. I have another to-do lists, but this takes so much of the weekly activities. I fight against it as so much people do, and I organize my agenda based on objectives, being the e-mail as something that happens and … Read more
A collection of news to follow-up merge and acquisitions of GE. 2014 November, 5th: GE acquires Alstom energy, in reality the Business Unit that really makes sense for GE ($13.5 billion). November, 6th: GE Money Bank AB (Nordics) sold to Santander Consumer Finance S.A for ±700m€. 2015 January: GE sells equity business, to focus on industrial activities. … Read more
I was writing about some generic reasons that could cause a portfolio to go in the wrong direction. So how could we improve this situation? Fix some of the pillars of the delivery of an account is not an easy business, you need to continue delivering, and all that today is in a rush will … Read more
This year I was able to go to the Pyrenees mountain and ride for five days on the never-ending trails of Ainsa. Nice place to ride and rest, a year where we picked the routes in a very good way. The only problem we had was the temperature, so so warm days. (Bajo de Peña … Read more
The management of a portfolio of applications is in some ways similar to the management of an account, in the way that you have in one hand the customer satisfaction and on the other hand you have the profit you do. I would like to go in deep for a situation like the one showed … Read more
Now this blog is hosted in a different server, and the result is just better in terms of time response. I came from an average load time of 3,5s to an average load time of 2,15s. The first 2 requests took 1,3s; mainly the web browser waiting for response from server (yellow line). Now this … Read more
Imagine you are the HR lead for a big organization. You know Linkedin is the more used professional network used by the employees. This network manages candidates appliances for other companies (mainly your competitors). And then, you want to know: how many of your employees are applying to jobs in other companies, which countries shows … Read more
During the NBA final series there has been a move which has been mentioned so much in the forums and on the TV, it is the Hammer, which belongs to the Zipper Series of the Spurs playbook. This is really aesthetically pleasant move; and very difficult to implement, by the way.
I continue trying to understand how hosting companies earn money with their services. I cannot calculate the TCO per server or per user, but I can do some figures to calculate the revenue per server: I have the prices on the web page and I can know the number of customers for a given server … Read more
This Gartner article talks about something I have been commenting with some colleagues several times: the customers are spending less and less money. IT is an industry that destroys itself, and some times or some events provokes the expenditure to be reduced. What the article provides are details and figures that explains the trend. It reduces … Read more