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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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Mark Hinkle on Open Source Systems Management

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Mark has written a great article for Linux Today summarizing some of the open source activities over the last few weeks.  He gives a little history of the “Little 4″ and he also does a good job summarizing some of the recent Gartner analalysis on Microsoft and open source.
The Little “3″ of Open Source Systems […]

Seven Core Competencies for Enterprise Innovation

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

I am in the process of completing a 25-page white paper that describes the seven technologies that are going to disrupt legacy enterprise IT. Here is a list of the seven technologies discussed in the paper:

Content Management Systems

Cloud Computing

Semantic Web

Enterprise Search

Enterprise Social Networking

Work-Place Wiki’s

Open Education

For more information about 7Core […]

ThemeRiver Visualization

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

I came across this interesting prototype this morning. I have not seen this type of chart used in any ESM analytics, but it seems like it could be used for some interesting analysis.

For the original article see …

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Wow, I got Farked Last Thursday

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray

Monday, February 11th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #005 - The Night John Slept on a Cray

Why Are You Here?

Monday, February 11th, 2008

In 1987, I took my first crack at starting my own business. At the time, I lived in northern Virginia and had completed my apprenticeship with some local software startups. I was lucky enough to meet an excellent mentor named Ray Padron, who helped me create a business plan and do the VC snake dance.

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Doug is on Fire!

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Help us help you. Check out DevCampTivoli. We are looking for the following help:

We want to round this out with about 25 to 30 developers who are interested in gluing monitoring (plumbing) with business service management (Holy Grail type stuff). Add yourself to the Wiki.
Help us get the word out. We intend […]

Intelligium forms a Strategic Alliance for Tivoli services

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Intelligium forms a Strategic Alliance for Tivoli services
ATLANTA, GA. (February 06, 2008)— John Willis, an IBM Tivoli veteran with over 25 years of experience in the software industry has entered into a long term exclusive partnership with Intelligium, a leader in providing Tivoli and Websphere services globally. As a result of this partnership, John will […]

Coming Soon to a Podcast Near You!

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

What Does Bob Want?

BarcampESM - Monitoring, the good, the bad, and the ugly

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

“Adventures” in Open Source

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Tarus is shaking things up a little bit on his blog:
Show Me Da Money (a Cautionary Tale)
Why All the Hate?

Welcome to Gloversville

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I became a huge Malcolm Gladwell fan after I finished the first page of the Tipping Point. I have read Blink, and I usually listen to my audio copy over and over again on long trips. Now, with the advent of pod-casting, I have become a junkie for anything Gladwell. In fact, I would […]

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 […]

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.

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DevCamp Tivoli - Collaborative Development of End-to-End BSM Solutions

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Some more information about DevCampTivoli…
DevCamp Tivoli - Collaborative Development of End-to-End BSM Solutions

DevCamp Tivoli IBM Monitoring and BSM Podcast

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

IBM Tivoli Administrators - Monitoring and BSM
Doug McClure and myself are promoting a DevCampTivoli on May 17th 2008 the Saturday before the IBM Tivoli conference. The idea is to invite about 20 to 30 IBM Tivoli monitoring and BSM experts to develop monitoring-to-business-intelligence  solutions based on ITM 6.2 and TBSM 4.1.1. It […]

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

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