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IT Management Podcast #10 - Tivoli and the Little 3

Friday, April 18th, 2008

We finally made it to podcast #10. A lot of Tivoli talk on this one however we did talk a little about my best friends on the west coats Groundworks. It all about revue baby revenue. I hope you enjoy.
IT Management Podcast #10 - Tivoli and the Little 3

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Enterprise Beware!

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

There was an interesting article yesterday in SearchDataCenter.com about how Motorola is using Splunk to troubleshoot IT management problems. Enterprise Search technologies are being used more and more by large customers to apply Google-like search technology to traditional data center analytics. Companies like Coke and Comcast are using Enterprise Search technologies to […]

Botchanomics and The Big Galupe

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

It’s been a while since we have been able to catch up with the international man of IT mystery, Botchagalupe. I was able to sit down with Botchagalupe to see what he has been up to lately.
Johnmwillis: Hello, Botchagalupe, its good to have you back again.
Botchagalupe: Yea, yeah, sure, sure.
Johnmwillis: The last time […]

Cloud Computing and the Enterprise

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

The more I learn about cloud computing, the more I think that it’s going to affect the enterprise more quickly than most people expect. Some enterprise customers are already working on cloud prototypes, and I recently heard a Forester analyst say that he thought that cloud computing initiatives could affect the enterprise within […]

Coming Soon to a Podcast Near You!

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

What Does Bob Want?

The IBM Amazon Missing Link

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Is there a missing link between IBM and Amazon? Let me hold that thought for a few minutes. Over the past year, Amazon has been making some very subtle plays into a game that has been dominated by IBM. Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) provides online, extremely low cost storage (S3) as well as utility computing […]

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.

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Cote’ Takes a Closer Look a Paglo - DaaS

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Paglo Briefing - Search over your IT Junk, and hosted/SaaS too
DaaS = Discovery as a Service (You heard it here first!)

Putting the Einstein in the “E” of Enterprise

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Google: Rewriting the book on data centers
Google’s success to its data center design and science. “Everything goes back to physics,” the former member of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab told me.
Google threw out the book on data centers and went back to basic heat transfer and electrical theory, he explained, eliminating everything […]

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 […]

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.

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Gartner Identifies Five Major Trends and Ten Technologies

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Web 2.0
SaaS
Global-class computing
Consumerization of IT
Open-source software

“The five major discontinuities have the potential to completely disrupt vendor business models, user deployment models, whole market segments and key user and vendor brand assumptions,” said Tom Austin, a vice president at Gartner.
Gartner says five major trends will force IT organizations to change way they operate

Gartner’s top 10 technologies […]