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

John — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:01:28 +0000

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”

John — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:46:19 +0000

John — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:59:38 +0000

John — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:56:02 +0000

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 talk.
We once again arrive at our “get rid of all that annoying IT process” candy-land of cloud computing. I ask John what kinds of applications people are putting in these candy-lands: new stuff, or just the regular workloads? John says he’s seen standard LAMP stack stuff and a few other items.
IBM cloud explosion – what exactly is all this cloud stuff we’re seeing from IBM? Here, here, etc.
GroundWork Starter edition – $4,000 starts you with 100 devices.
Snorkle – Sun + Oracle. John gets me to re-cap my post on the topic.
Cassatt closing – David Dennis had a nice write-up, but I ask John to add in his take which seems to be: “provisioning on steroids might be a cloud.”
OpsCode (Chef) funding, and Eucalyptus too.
The Bowling Kid – John’s son Daniel can bowl a mean game.

John — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:05:04 +0000

John — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:59:02 +0000

John — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:46:05 +0000

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 more companies? How to predict what people will.
Free NetQos Symposium in Austin
Obama Millions – John says it’s good to be a project manager now.
Camps: April 4th, 2009 is barcampESM, while cloudcampAustin is on April 7th, 2009.

John — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:21:16 +0000

John — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:44:06 +0000

John — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:22:35 +0000