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IT Management & Cloud #48 – BSM, Tivoli Partners, Hadoop Uses, Splunk 4.0, Conferences

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Some cool show quotes

“Amazon is Apple and Rackspace is Google Android.”
“All I want is to take a WAR and deploy it”: we need a PaaS for Java, where are they?”
“All I want is to take a WAR and deploy it”: we need a PaaS for Java, where are they?”
“There’s no uber-cloud strategy from RedHat”

Here is [...]

IT Management & Cloud Podcast #44 – Ethan Galstad & Nagios

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Cote and I had a great podcast with Ethan Galstad, the “father of Nagios.”
Here is the link…

IT Management & Cloud Podcast #43 – News Catch Up

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Here is the link…

IT Management & Cloud Podcast #41- The Cloud’s Awkward Teen Years

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

The Killer Cloud – John’s government consulting.
I ask John what he knows about vSphere. He’s not too hot on it as a private cloud; we discuss “hyper-visor virtualization.”
We get into a discussion about “workloads” you’d put in a cloud and the risk-profiling, lacing in John’s military chatter and my notes from a recent IBM cloud [...]

Cloud Hoopla, The ITSM Quandry, Model-driven ITast #40

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

IT Management and Cloud Podcast #40

IT Management Podcast #146 – Cloud IBM, GroundWorks, and SaaS News

Monday, February 16th, 2009

IT Management Podcast #146 – Cloud IBM, GroundWorks, and SaaS News

IT Management Podcast #35 – Cloud Economics, Novell, Pokens

Friday, February 6th, 2009

IT Management Podcast #35 – Cloud Economics, Novell, Pokens
This week John and I cover much cloud talk and some general news items:

What Pokens do?
On the Media about cellphones in Japan.
Kindle numbers
Enterprise software catering to the highest paying customers, do open source companies?
Why don’t enterprises in-source their IT management coding?
VMWare open sourcing their VDI client.
Novell acquiring [...]

IT Management Podcast #33 – The Night John Saw Stevie Ray Vaughn in a Taco Place

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

IT Management Podcast #33 – The Night John Saw Stevie Ray Vaughn in a Taco Place

IT Management Podcast #32 – Cloud News, Opscode, Scripting in the Data Center

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

IT Management Podcast #32 – Cloud News, Opscode, Scripting in the Data Center

IT Management Podcast #31 – Splunk, Cloud Moves, The Little 4 in 2009, Tivoli Memories

Monday, January 12th, 2009

IT Management Podcast #31 – Splunk, Cloud Moves, The Little 4 in 2009, Tivoli Memories

IT Management Podcast #30 – That code don’t write itself, chuckle-heads

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

IT Management Podcast #30 – That code don’t write itself, chuckle-heads

IT Management Podcast #29 – Whacky Predictions, 2009 Edition

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

For this special episode of the IT Management podcast, we go over our whacky predictions for 2009. John and I lucky to be joined by Dave Rosenberg (see also his Open Sources podcast with Matt Asay), self described “man about town,” and IT Management Podcast regular Matt Ray, community manager at Zenoss.
Very quickly, we first [...]

IT Management Podcast #28 – Getting Ripped-off in the Cloud

Monday, December 15th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #28 – Getting Ripped-off in the Cloud
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IT Management Podcast #27 – What type of cranberry person are you?

Monday, December 1st, 2008

IT Management Podcast #27 – What type of cranberry person are you?
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IT Management Podcast #26

Monday, November 24th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #26 – Change Management, CA, Amazon, Adobe PaaS, IBM Software Analyst Summit

IT Management Podcast #25 – Blue Cloud, VMWare Management Everywhere, Hadoop, openQRM, BizSpark

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #25
Blue Cloud, VMWare Management Everywhere, Hadoop, openQRM, BizSpark

IT Management Podcast #24 – If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

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Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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IT Management Podcast #24
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IT Management Podcast #23 – Buying Milk in Rocket Cars

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

IT Management Podcast #23 – Buying Milk in Rocket Cars
Had to miss this one… some things in life are just a little more important than IT Management. And yes Tarus, I still love you…

IT Management Podcast #22 – Real ITSM, Predictive Analytics, Blue House, Second Life

Friday, October 10th, 2008

IT Management Podcast #22
This week, Cote and me manage to balance out time between traditional IT Management and cloud talk. While we discuss IBM’s cloud announcements of earlier this week, we also talk about the idea of predictive analytics (from Tivoli, BMC, and others). Also, we talk about “virtual reality” (Second Life and friends) [...]

IT Management Podcast #21 – Clouds are Stupid, Windows on EC2, Cloud Revenue, Reporting in IT Management

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

IT Management Podcast #21 – Clouds are Stupid, Windows on EC2, Cloud Revenue, Reporting in IT Management

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