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IT Management Guys - Podcast#1

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Coté and I plan on doing weekly or semi-weekly podcasts on IT Management. We did out first installment Thursday, and it was a blast. For a summary of the podcast, see “IT Management Podcast #001 - barcampESM, Monitoring, The Cloud, 2008 Predictions, and more.”

BarCampESM Update #3

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

We have the venue…
J. BLACK’S, Feel Good Lounge
710 W. 6th
Austin, Texas 78701
512.535.8283
www.jblacks.com
Details about our plans:
Friday Night (01/18/08):
We are planning a kick off party Friday night at J. BLACKS starting around 6pm.  This will be a good time to get to meet, plan, and enjoy.
Saturday (01/19/08)
The doors will open at 9am and then […]

Barcamp - BarcampESM - Update #2

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Barcamp - BarcampESM.org
This is starting to look like a world class event. For the first time in the ESM industry, we will have sessions that include some of the top open source monitoring providers with two of the leading commercial monitoring providers talking about how to improve monitoring and ESM (”Monitoring: The good, the […]

BarcampESM … Update …

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Less than two weeks away…

Google … I dare you to attend BarCampESM …

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream!

Google, you are making more money than god. Giving up your dirty little ESM secrets won’t hurt your bottom line. I think that the ESM community would be very interesting to learn how you manage 1 million plus core data centers. Also, since you are a leader […]

My Top 17 Favorite Posts of 2007

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

The first question is, “If you are the only person who laughs at your joke is it still funny?” If your answer is “No,” then I strongly advise you not to read this blog entry.

Excellent Post on System Management, OSS, and Perfromance

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Digging Deeper: Systems Management
Need to add this guy to my rss.

What if I only had a hour to live?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I was flipping channels this evening in my hotel room and heard a very touching story about a man who wrote a short Xen like essay about all the things he would do if he had only one hour to live. By the way, he dies shortly after completing the essay. Then, I started […]

Wow #1

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

I have been linked from O’Reilly Radar. Cool…
Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!)
This is a really good article about how to do a WEB 2.0 startup “The WEB 2.0 Way” (i.e., the Secret Sauce).
Here is my comment…
There are some really interesting companies working around S3/EC2. Now you add a little […]

Zenoss, rPath join on open source systems management appliances

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Zenoss, rPath join on open source systems management appliances

Whurley on TV

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

http://web2point0.tv/dev/video.php?id=

Can You Say Tipping Point?

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Microsoft- Ballmer shopping for open-source companies. Who’s for sale
Matt makes some suggestions such SugarCRM or even Novell. NOVELL… now we are talking more than a tipping point… maybe a black swan…

The World is on Crack #4

Friday, October 19th, 2007

So, I am brought in by a “Big Four” to help close a deal for an OS monitoring and services gig. Then, at the end of the meeting the customer starts to rant about how he has already spent a half-million dollars on a network management tool that doesn’t work. Furthermore, he says that […]

Wasup – The Debate Rages on…

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Leaving Toronto… See Ya Hoser’s Later

Friday, October 12th, 2007

I presented my ITM 6.1 Best Practices today the SOTUG meeting in Markham, Ontario. IBM was a great host for the meeting and provided space at its development center in Markham. The meeting went very well, and I will post some interesting stories from some of the presentations and from a very interesting […]

ITM 6 Best Practices (Video)

Friday, October 12th, 2007

My first live video has bee posted at xtrain.com. This first class is a free sample of the type of Tivoli classes that we will be delivering at Xtrain. Please check it out and let me know what you think.

For more information, check out zabovo.com.

Five Guys Pizza!

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

The only guys I know in open source, and they were all in the same place at one time. What are the odds? And they happen to be a pretty good bunch to know. From left to right: Cote, Luke Kanies, Whurley, myself, and Mark Hinkle. Whurley ran a good open source […]

They Might be Giants

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie.

ITNMIPEE for the SMB

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

“IBM Tivoli Network Manager Entry IP Edition 3.7” - ITNMIPEE (Now that’s an acronym).
On 9/11/2007, IBM announced an entry (SMB) version of its recently announced enterprise product IBM Tivoli Network Managed IP Edition (ITNMIPE). ITNMIPE is the enterprise replacement product, formally Precision from MicroMuse, for the old IBM Netview product. […]

Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

“`There are going to be times,’ says Kesey, `when we can’t wait for somebody. Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus. If you’re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you’ll find it again. If you’re off the bus in the first place–then it won’t make a damn.’ And nobody […]

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