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		<title>Do we need a cloud standard or just one good old IT management standard?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It 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 the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mighty Two &#8211; Zenoss</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then their were two&#8230; With Qlusters gone and IMHO, Groundwork feeding off the bottom there are only two commercially viable open source enterprise systems management (ESM) monitoring tools left on the market. Back in Feburary I did a post about Hyperic and now I wanted to get up to speed on the other &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matching the Customer With the Right Cloud (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/matching-the-customer-with-the-right-cloud-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnmwillis.com/amazon/matching-the-customer-with-the-right-cloud-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously, I created a &#8220;Cloud Vendors A to Z,&#8221; and I have received a little push back from some of my new Cloud friends (mostly vendors). I put a stake in the ground by categorizing cloud vendors as either level 1, level 2, or level 3. Although I am still refining my definitions, the bigger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/groundwork/cloud-vendors-a-to-z/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST&#8230; Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised) Cloud Vendor Level Type Status Based Off Beta Status Notes 3Tera 3 Server Not a Provider (1) Software Based Production 3Tera does provide hostingÂ however their goal is to be a software solution not a hosting solution Adobe Air 1 Application [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salesforce.com Wasup</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/saas/wasup-salesforcecom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, there were rumors about salesforce.com going directly to Oracle to solicit a buy. Now, insider trading reflects that almost 10% of its market cap has been sold by insiders exercising options&#8230; Wasup &#8230; Salesforce.com execs cashed out $678 million and you haven&#8217;t]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Switching Office to SaaS? Makes Total Financial Sense!</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/microsoft/microsoft-switching-office-to-saas-makes-total-financial-sense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnmwillis.com/microsoft/microsoft-switching-office-to-saas-makes-total-financial-sense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Switching Office to SaaS? Makes Total Financial Sense!]]></description>
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		<title>IBM: Out with the SAP and in with the SaaS</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/ibm-out-with-the-sap-and-in-with-the-saas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/ibm-out-with-the-sap-and-in-with-the-saas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not really&#8230; IBM, however, has recently added a new application on SalesForce.com&#8217;s AppExchange called IBM Information Server Pack for Salesforce that could allow IBM a little bit of a hedge if things should go sour with SAP. IBM is going to make the application available for free in hopes that other companies and independent software [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cote&#8217; Takes a Closer Look a Paglo &#8211; DaaS</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/saas/cote-takes-a-closer-look-a-paglo-daas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnmwillis.com/saas/cote-takes-a-closer-look-a-paglo-daas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paglo Briefing &#8211; Search over your IT Junk, and hosted/SaaS too DaaS = Discovery as a Service (You heard it here first!)]]></description>
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		<title>ESM and SaaS</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/esm-and-saas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnmwillis.com/opensource/esm-and-saas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Botchagalupe. Johnmwillis: Can ESM and SaaS work? Botchagalupe: Absolutely. Johnmwillis: Has it ever worked before? Botchagalupe: No. There have been a few tries over the years. The first one I can remember was a company called SecondWave. These were a bunch of Ex Tivoli execs that started a Tivoli training company.  Then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My kids don&#8221;t care about SOA</title>
		<link>http://www.johnmwillis.com/soa/my-kids-dont-care-about-soa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.johnmwillis.com/soa/my-kids-dont-care-about-soa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They really aren&#8217;t up on the latest industry trends &#8220;AJAX, OSS, Web 2.0.&#8221; They always appreciated the chotchkees I usually bring home from conferences but they never have been excited enough to ask where they came from. However, this time my new friends over at the OpSource booth at OSCON have started a trend I [...]]]></description>
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