BotchagalupeMarks for July 2nd - 15:31
By John | July 3, 2009
These are my links for July 2nd from 15:31 to 17:09:
- Amazon Threatens VPS Market | Cloudscaling - One of the more overlooked aspects of the cloud computing market is the imminent threat to the Virtual Private Server (VPS) market. Many look to the stardom success of Web 2.0 startups like Animoto and SmugMug, who clearly derive tremendous value from Amazon Web Services (AWS), as a measure of cloud computing adoption. Others point to the imminent embrace of ‘the Enterprise’ although uptake is still slow.
- CloudSwitch Raises $8 Million « Data Center Knowledge - Two rounds and $15 Million and still no product…
- Dude, Where’s My Database?! - Justin & Jason talk to Jonathan Ellis about how Facebook’s open sourced Cassandra Project took lessons learned from Amazon’s Dynamo and Google’s BigTable to tackle the difficult problem of building a highly scalable, always available, distributed data store. We also discuss how to join, get taken seriously and get commit access within an established and large open source project such as Cassandra.
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BotchagalupeMarks for July 2nd - 09:43
By John | July 3, 2009
These are my links for July 2nd from 09:43 to 15:10:
- Awesome Foundation - We support people doing awesome things in the world. Every month we give out a grant. Information on how to submit follows.
- Force.com Cloud Developer Challenge - Take part in the new Force.com Cloud Developer Challenge! The Force.com Cloud Developer Preview program is now officially open to all developers. Submissions end July 31, 2009.
- Linux PR: openQRM Cloud 4.5 released - Next to Nagios2 and Nagios3 Zabbix is now the third system- and
service-monitoring option available in openQRM 4.5. With the "Cloud NAT"
feature one can …
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My God, Their Not Wearing Any Pants!
By John | July 2, 2009
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IT Management Guys - The Missing Years
By John | July 2, 2009
IT Management Video & Audio
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BotchagalupeMarks for July 1st - 08:08
By John | July 2, 2009
These are my links for July 1st from 08:08 to 09:37:
- ‘Mafiaboy’: Cloud Computing Will Cause Internet Security Meltdown - DarkReading - Notorious black-hat hacker warns that cloud-based computing will be "extremely dangerous," and explains how he got into hacking at age 15
- Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker - Malcolm Rocks!
- Twitter May Start Suing Companies That Use The Word "Tweet" - TechCrunch dug up an interesting email in which a Twitter API team support person asked a developer to stop using the word "tweet":
- Cisco Launches Services, Shows Off Its Hit List - Cisco today outlined its plans for delivering IT services over the web (aka cloud services), and as part of a conference call, showed off a great slide that illustrates exactly how many companies this former networking gear maker wants to take on.
- Outage for Rackspace Customers « Data Center Knowledge - Many sites hosted at Rackspace Hosting were offline this afternoon when the company’s data center in Grapevine, Texas lost power for about 45 minutes. Rackspace reported at 4:30 p.m. Eastern that it was “having an issue that is affecting part of our DFW data center.” Power was restored shortly after 5 p.m., but the company continued to manually bring up servers that did not restart properly when power was restored, a task that lasted well into the evening.
- Thinking Out Cloud: Ruby Developers: The Cloud Generation - In Evans Data Corp.'s first 2009 North American Development Trends Report, Joe McKendrick reports that Ruby usage has increased 40% during the past year. Darryl Taft of eWeek writes about the report:
- eHarmony.com describes how they use Amazon EC2 and MapReduce | High Scalability - This slide show presents eHarmony.com experience (one of the biggest dating sites out there) in using Amazon EC2 and MapReduce to scale their service.
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Intro to Clouds - Cloud Camp Columbus
By John | July 1, 2009
Download the PDF here…
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BotchagalupeMarks for June 29th - 14:00
By John | June 30, 2009
These are my links for June 29th from 14:00 to 16:52:
- Looking Back at Structure 09: Some Fun Moments & Photos - Good post with all the links from Structure 09
- Getting More for Less | InternetRetailer.com - Today’s increased bandwidth has made the shift from retailer-owned hardware and software to pay-as-you-go cloud services possible. These cloud services, whether they are for infrastructure or software, provide their users with many of the benefits that traditional pooling of resources can provide, such as lowering risk and costs and improving performance.
- People Over Process » Numbers, Volume 17 - Cote is so smart… I wish I would have thought of this idea… iloviT
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BotchagalupeMarks for June 29th - 11:40
By John | June 30, 2009
These are my links for June 29th from 11:40 to 13:37:
- Andreessen-backed Startup Targets Cloud « Data Center Knowledge - webappVM was previously known as OSS-1701, and was founded in May 2008 by CEO Issac Roth and CTO Tobias Kunze Briseño. Roth most recently worked as director of product management at the Wily Computing business of Computer Associates, while Briseno was a senior development manager at Lycos Europe.
- Forrester Bucks Conventional Wisdom on Cloud Computing - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership - A couple of weeks ago Forrester released a report on cloud computing, based upon a survey of small and large enterprises located in North America and Europe. I was particularly interested in its findings as it addressed the question of private (internal) cloud computing, given my recent CIO.com blog series, "The Case Against Cloud Computing."
- Sugar on a Stick: Download the OLPC OS - Dubbed Sugar on a Stick, the special system is based on Fedora Linux and is designed from the ground up to be intuitive for children to make operation easy. Sugar on a Stick v1 can be downloaded and installed on a USB stick making it possible to be used on any computer (netbooks come to mind) without replacing the existing installation.
- Generating Example Data for Dataflow Programs - Hadoop Mao Reduce paper by Yahoo
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Velocity 09 Droplets
By John | June 29, 2009
Cloud Droplet #85 John Adams of Twitter at Velocity
Cloud Droplet #84 ControlTier at Velocity
Cloud Droplet #83 - Veloicty 09 - Adam Jacob of Opscode and Chef
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BotchagalupeMarks for June 27th - 20:48
By John | June 29, 2009
These are my links for June 27th through June 28th:
- less than 5% of fortune 2000 have an active CMDB installed ? | The IT Skeptic - Can anyone who was at the Gartner conference this week confirm what I saw on Twitter? "Major takeaway from Gartner IOM event is less than 5% of fortune 2000 have an active CMDB installed "
- Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel | Cloudscaling - Chris Wensel is the man when it comes to understanding Hadoop and he recently gave a couple of talks introducing Hadoop. Here is one of them:
- Infrastructure as Code Presentations | Cloudscaling - There are some very important tectonic shifts at play now highlighted in these presentations. One in particular, the notion of highly automated infrastructure and being able to describe infrastructure as code, is a particular hobby horse of mine.
- dev2ops: delivering application change: Automated Infrastructure enables Agile Operations - "Agile" been applied to such unanticipated domains as enterprises, start ups, investing, etc. Agile encompasses several generic common sense principles (eg: simple design, sustainable pace, many incremental changes, action over bureaucracy, etc.) so the desire to bestow its virtues on all kinds of endeavors is understandable.
- Structure 09: How to Scale Up With Distributed Data Storage - Very good panel discussion.
- Structure 09: Marc Benioff on the Key to Salesforce’s Success and the Move to Real-Time - Marc Benioff was very funny .. starting with his Azune datacenter joke…
- Resources from Velocity 2009, Structure 09 « Data Center Knowledge - Great links for Velocity resources…
- dev2ops: delivering application change: 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr - The Flickr guys, John Allspaw and Paul Hammond gave an entertaining and validating presentation at OReilly Velocity (slides).
- Twitter Scaling Solution Earns Reductive Labs $2 Million - ReadWriteStart - Some current Puppet users include Twitter, Google, Digg, the New York Stock Exchange and Oracle. A full list of users is available on the Puppet Wiki.
- The Five Pillars of Cloud Computing | Wireless Developer’s Journal - there are myriad variations on the definition of the cloud- William Fellows and John Barr at the 451 Group define cloud computing as the intersection of grid, virtualization, SaaS, and utility computing models. James Staten of Forrester Research describes it as a pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute infrastructure capable of hosting end-customer applications and billed by consumption. Let's take it a step further and examine the core principles, or pillars, that uniquely define cloud computing.
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Velocity 09 - Chris Wensel on Cascading
By John | June 27, 2009
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Velocity 09 - ControlTier
By John | June 27, 2009
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Velocity 09 - John Adams Ops Engineer at Twitter
By John | June 27, 2009
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Cloud Droplet #83 Adam Jacob of Opscode and Chef
By John | June 27, 2009
Opscode and Chef - Listen here …
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Velocity 09 - Adam Jacob of Opscode and Chef
By John | June 27, 2009
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No Country For Old IT Guys - GGB
By John | June 26, 2009
No Country for Old IT Guys - The Movie
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BotchagalupeMarks for June 25th - 10:25
By John | June 26, 2009
These are my links for June 25th from 10:25 to 16:16:
- Jonathan Ellis’s Programming Blog - Spyced: CouchDB: not drinking the kool-aid - Interesting?
- Cloudera Hadoop & Big Data Blog » Blog Archive » A Great Week for Hadoop: Summit Roundup - On June 10th, more than 750 people from around the world descended on the Santa Clara Marriott to share their love for a little stuffed elephant named Hadoop. It was a good week to be part of this exploding community, and I want to extend Cloudera’s heartfelt thanks to everyone who made it possible, especially our friends at Yahoo! who organized this Summit.
- Facebook Developers | Scribe - Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers. It is designed to be scalable, extensible without client-side modification, and robust to failure of the network or any specific machine. Scribe was developed at Facebook and released as open source.
- Will the Real Slim Cloudy Please Stand Up? - Stu says stuff - There are at least six views on Cloud Computing out there, and why they're important. Some people are pretty adamant that their definition is the one true definition, others tend to admit the overlap. Optimists would call this state of affairs "synergy", pessimists would call "vagueness", cynics would call it "sophistry".
- Amazon Web Services Blog: Webinar: How to Create Secure Test and Dev Environments on the Cloud - Along with Michael Crandell and Edward Goldberg of RightScale, Simone Brunozzi of Amazon Web Services and Patrick Kerpan of CohesiveFT will show you how you can save time and money by running your entire testing application testing infrastructure in the cloud.
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Big 4 Little 4 - Private Clouds
By John | June 25, 2009
As lists go, here goes…
Big 4
IBM’s latest announcement, IMHO, finally puts them on the map as far as private cloud infrastructures go. I still believe they have a long way to go, but they have a very powerful infrastructure with their Cloudburst architecture backed by TSAM, ITPM, and ITM.
VMware has gone through a few iterations over the last year trying to define thier private cloud offering. Much like IBM’s Blue Cloud, VMware’s cloud offering has been a moving target. vShphere seems to be VMware’s first solid stake in the ground very much like IBM’s recent announcment.
Sun’s cloud story was starting to get really interesting until the great un-believer purchased them. Sun’s acquisition of Qlayer was starting to play out nice for the Sun private cloud story. As acquisitions go, they should be getting back on track this year as long as the chief ninja doesn’t screw things up.
I agree this is a stretch, however; I still believe Cassatt is strong technology and CA has to understand that it’s life blood must exist in the cloud.
Little 4
3Tera passes my I know one when I see one test. 3Tera’s Applogic provides a private grid like infrastructure for true cloud computing. They have been providing a solid private cloud for a few years now.
A front runner for “The Best Tweet” cloudie award this year is this one from @ruv …: “its like a game of survivor . The Enomaly motto should be, Outwit, Outplay, outlast.” Enomaly has recently announced a Cloud Server Provider Edition. This seems like a nice white label approach to providing other providers a cloud in a box.
Eucalyptus is a fascinating story. Rick Wolski, UCSB professor, tasked his students to build an open source version of Amazon’s Web Services. One year later they are funded by Benchmark Capital and have 11 employees. This is very promising technology. I guess the big question for me is, “Do 3Tera and Enomaly have to far of a head start?”
No ‘good” Big 4/Little 4 discussion can be complete with out a miss placed vendor 
I have called the Cloudera guys the 1927 Yankees of Hadoop. Hadoop is changing the way IT looks at data and these guys are leading the charge.
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No Country For Old IT Guys - Velocity 09
By John | June 24, 2009
No Country for Old IT Guys - The Movie
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Cloud Camp Columbus and The IBM Blue Cloud
By John | June 24, 2009
I will be moderating next week’s Cloud Camp in Columbus Ohio next week Tuesday 6/30/09. Cloud Camp is a free conference and has been running around the world. I will be giving two session at the conference, “Introduction to Clouds” and “Clouds in the Enterprise”. In my “Clouds in the Enterprise” will cover IBM’s new “Blue Cloud/Cloudbursting” announcement. If you happen to be in the Columbus area next Tuesday you should come and learn more about Cloud Computing. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Also, I have reserved extra tickets for Tivoli user’s. Here are some of the details:
Location:
TechColumbus
1275 Kinnear Rd
Columbus, OH 43212
Schedule:
- 4:00pm - Registration & networking
- 5:00pm - Six 5-min Lightning Talks, including:
- Microsoft Azure
- 5:45pm - 10 question Lightning Panel (questions from the crowd)
- 6:30pm - Unconference begins (4 or more sessions running in parallel, depends on # of attendees)
- 8:30pm - Networking with Food and Drinks
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