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BotchagalupeMarks for June 27th – 20:48
By John | June 29, 2009
These are my links for June 27th through June 28th:
- less than 5% of fortune 2000 have an active CMDB installed ? | The IT Skeptic – Can anyone who was at the Gartner conference this week confirm what I saw on Twitter? "Major takeaway from Gartner IOM event is less than 5% of fortune 2000 have an active CMDB installed "
- Hadoop 101 by Chris Wensel | Cloudscaling – Chris Wensel is the man when it comes to understanding Hadoop and he recently gave a couple of talks introducing Hadoop. Here is one of them:
- Infrastructure as Code Presentations | Cloudscaling – There are some very important tectonic shifts at play now highlighted in these presentations. One in particular, the notion of highly automated infrastructure and being able to describe infrastructure as code, is a particular hobby horse of mine.
- dev2ops: delivering application change: Automated Infrastructure enables Agile Operations – "Agile" been applied to such unanticipated domains as enterprises, start ups, investing, etc. Agile encompasses several generic common sense principles (eg: simple design, sustainable pace, many incremental changes, action over bureaucracy, etc.) so the desire to bestow its virtues on all kinds of endeavors is understandable.
- Structure 09: How to Scale Up With Distributed Data Storage – Very good panel discussion.
- Structure 09: Marc Benioff on the Key to Salesforce’s Success and the Move to Real-Time – Marc Benioff was very funny .. starting with his Azune datacenter joke…
- Resources from Velocity 2009, Structure 09 « Data Center Knowledge – Great links for Velocity resources…
- dev2ops: delivering application change: 10+ Deploys Per Day: Dev and Ops Cooperation at Flickr – The Flickr guys, John Allspaw and Paul Hammond gave an entertaining and validating presentation at OReilly Velocity (slides).
- Twitter Scaling Solution Earns Reductive Labs $2 Million – ReadWriteStart – Some current Puppet users include Twitter, Google, Digg, the New York Stock Exchange and Oracle. A full list of users is available on the Puppet Wiki.
- The Five Pillars of Cloud Computing | Wireless Developer’s Journal – there are myriad variations on the definition of the cloud- William Fellows and John Barr at the 451 Group define cloud computing as the intersection of grid, virtualization, SaaS, and utility computing models. James Staten of Forrester Research describes it as a pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute infrastructure capable of hosting end-customer applications and billed by consumption. Let's take it a step further and examine the core principles, or pillars, that uniquely define cloud computing.
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