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BotchagalupeMarks for July 2nd - 15:31

By John | July 3, 2009

These are my links for July 2nd from 15:31 to 17:09:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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

Topics: #velocityconf, nagios, puppet, twitter | 1 Comment »

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:

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Big 4 Little 4 - Private Clouds

By John | June 25, 2009

As lists go, here goes…

Big 4

IBM Blue Cloud

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 vSphere

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/Oracle

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.

Computer Associates (Cassatt)

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

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.

Enomaly

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

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?”

Cloudera

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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