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« Previous EntriesOpenQRM and Puppet Integration
Sunday, November 16th, 2008A few weeks back I had the opportunity to meet Matt Rechenburg, the project owner of openQRM. Matt gave me a demonstration of his openQRM product and I was blown away. One of he questions I asked him after I saw the presentation was if he was going to add Puppet support. […]
A Puppet to Modernize System Administration
Sunday, November 2nd, 2008Luke Kanies Wants to Modernize System Administration
Implementing Puppet: Act One
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Implementing Puppet: Act One
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Do we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008It is my belief that what we today call the “cloud” will really just evolve into a complex IT infrastructure of the future, and in the end, will just be referred to as infrastructure. There is no doubt the traditional IT landscape of the last 20 years is going through a substantial transformation on […]
IT Conversations - Automated Infrastructure
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Automated Infrastructure
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Infrastructure 2.0 (An oldie but a goodie)
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Since I can not be at Velocity this week due to this silly thing called making money I thought I would dust off a relevant topic. About a year ago Luke coined the term Infrastructure 2.0. At the time I thought it was a great concept, however; I had no idea how relevant it would […]
Puppet at Google
Sunday, June 15th, 2008I have been screaming to the IBM/Tivoli enterprise crowd about this tool for over a year now…
If it’s good enough for Google it’s probably good enough for you…
Puppet at Google - RedMonk Radio Episode 48
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Puppet takes on automation of the cloud
Monday, June 9th, 2008Puppet takes on automation of the cloud
In other words, as more services move to the cloud or to complex, virtualized environments, with higher server counts and an ever-increasing cost of downtime, a system like Puppet becomes critical plumbing.
Managing servers with Puppet
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Managing servers with Puppet
So, I’ve been working on this project recently. In this project there’s no use of version control - in fact, we don’t even have staging or development environments. All changes were just made to the live server, in an ad hoc way, by a variety of people. And inevitably we’ve ended up […]
Why Only Two?
Friday, April 25th, 2008A few people have asked my why only two for my “Mighty Two”. I have been specifically asked why not OpenNMS and Nagios The simple answer is that Hyperic and Zenoss are software companies and OpenNMS and Nagios are projects. Both Hyperic and Zenoss both have software company infrastructures. This means they have full time […]
IT Management Podcast #10 - Tivoli and the Little 3
Friday, April 18th, 2008We 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
The way it is and the way it should to be
Friday, March 21st, 2008With all this talk about clouds and provisioning, coincidently, yesterday I had a conversation with one of the leading Tivoli provisioning consultants in the world. I have a client that needs to upgrade to the latest Tivoli Provisioning Management (TPM) product and I reached out to this consultant to help me. This consultant […]
Yikes …The New Math
Sunday, December 30th, 2007She’s Got Their Number
Entire companies–think Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) –are being built almost entirely around math. And others, like IBM, are integrating math into operations and decision making in ways never before seen.
 RubyConf Video is Posted
This starts to sound like Agile
…but you sound cooler when you say “Gödel†and “Ramachandranâ€
My Top 17 Favorite Posts of 2007
Saturday, December 15th, 2007The 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.
You should let me wet my beak a little.
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Don Fanucci: Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don’t even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I’ve got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little.
The other day, […]
Zabbix Finds a Home in USA
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Zabbix is an interesting open source monitoring product that is primarily developed in Latvia.
About two years ago, I had a venture called OpenESM where we were trying to partner with Zabbix, but, quite frankly, I could not understand a word they said and felt in the end that we were going to have communication/support issues. […]
Wow #1
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I 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 […]
Five Guys Pizza!
Thursday, October 11th, 2007The 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 […]
You can take the kid out of NY but you can’t take the NY out of the kid!
Monday, September 17th, 2007 Talking with Cote about what does Bob Want, Puppet, and Open Source.
Podcast #42
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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