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Interop Presents Unconference 2008-04-29 08:23:49 This year at Interop, there will be even more time for geek fellowship and conversation with a side of beer. Unconference
is the brainchild of Alistair Croll, a well-known entrepreneur, IT professional, and blogger. Unconference is designed to let users, experts and vendors come together in a casual environment to talk about how the [...] Read more:Presents
Ideas Wanted – EM7 Playing Card Contest 2008-04-28 11:09:35 We had so much fun coming up with ideas for our new playing card giveaway, we thought we’d share the fun and set up this contest for the best idea for a new EM7 playing card.
Come and give it your best shot. If you don’t have a pack of your own, check out the [...] Read more:Contest
InteropNet – Hot, Hot, Hot 2008-04-25 16:22:24 InteropNet Hot Stage is happening right now in Vegas. And it is literally hot – if you ask Louis it’s anywhere from 85 to 95 degrees, depends on how he’s feeling – because the show’s air conditioning doesn’t kick in until closer to the show. Good thing they get a good look at Mandalay [...]
What’s in a Number? 2008-04-25 13:21:54 We conducted our second government IT survey at FOSE 2008 this year, got pretty interesting results and can start to show some trends for technology adoption in particular. First of all, thanks to everyone who participated! Without you, we’d have nothing to share with everyone else.
You can find the full results of the survey and [...] Read more:Number
Service Providers – A Headache That Left Money on the Table 2008-04-23 14:19:29 A few years back, we were working with one of our service provider customers who expressed a business challenge each and every month. No, it wasn’t spotty cell phone coverage in rural America; it was something that all of us have experienced personally, getting the correct and accurate billing information to accounting on a timely [...] Read more:Service
, Headache
, Money
, Table
Sun’s Scott McNealy Speaks at Potomac Officers Club 2008-05-07 15:37:40 Yesterday afternoon I met Sun Microsystems’ Chairman and Co-Founder Scott
McNealy at an event that the Potomac Officers Club sponsored at the Tysons Corner Ritz Carlton. Scott was delivering a terrific speech in which I learned a lot of interesting facts about Sun’s open source initiatives. As Chairman of the company who coined the [...]
Green IT and Virtualization Management – One Service Provider’s Tale 2008-05-07 08:40:46 Here’s another interesting fact we found out at Interop. Opus Interactive’s data center is 100% wind-powered. How many of you can say that? It’s just a part of their green initiative – which also includes using blade servers to cut down on power consumption, virtualization technologies and our very own EM7 Meta-Appliances.
They’re the first (and [...] Read more:Green
, Management
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, Provider
Links List 5.12.08 2008-05-12 10:06:36 Interop has come and gone and we’re looking forward to sharing some interesting polls and stats we have uncovered. Network Instruments and NetQoS also conducted a poll on virtualization at Interop, which found that 80% of attendees are either using virtualization now or planning to use virtualization in 12 months.
Speaking of numbers, a survey from [...]
Network Security – It Takes a Village 2008-05-14 08:05:15 Something that should not be a surprise – it turns out that securing the world’s largest temporary network takes a variety of vendors working together.
For three days, InteropNet is one of the largest hacking targets on the planet. Attacks and threats come from both inside and outside the network. While the external attacks are certainly [...] Read more:Village
, Network Security
Interoperability – How Networking Should Be 2008-05-13 17:44:49 Remember when Interop was Networld+Interop? Somewhere along the way, it lost the Networld and has clearly embraced the interoperability focus, and nowhere was this more apparent than in InteropNet – the show network project which brought together 17 vendors to make the largest temporary network in the world.
The lofty goals: Vendors working together in a [...]
Links List 5.16.08 2008-05-16 13:01:19 Interoperability continues to be an issue for Microsoft, as they face another complaint in Europe. I seem to remember big signs in the Microsoft booth touting “interoperability” at Interop…it makes us all smile.
Denise Dubie of Network World shares her top 3 reasons to get excited about management technology, particularly network and systems management. She discusses [...]
Futher Comments About Interop and Interoperability 2008-05-16 09:17:25 A friend of mine Alan Shimmel writes a very interesting and well visited blog. We had a nice chance to catch-up at Interop and had a blast at a late night party that ScienceLogic sponsored during the show.
Recently Alan wrote an interesting post about the lack of “interoperability” at Interop, but we saw just the [...] Read more:Comments
Green IT – The Cart and the Horse 2008-05-23 10:06:03 We asked government IT folks at this year’s FOSE show how important Green
IT was to their agencies. The results:
73% said Green IT was important
16% said it wasn’t
9% admitted they didn’t know what the agency’s policy was
The follow up question (and the responses) was the kicker though:
Only 13% had tools/solutions for Green IT in place
An [...] Read more:Horse
Links List 5.23.08 2008-05-23 08:59:46 Royal Pingdom has a fun gallery of different NOCs across the country. From simple to complex, they are displayed here in all their glory.
Network World recently spoke to Doug McClure on BSM Lite. He suggests that BSM Lite needs to be supported by a subset of just four product capabilities: resource monitoring, event collection, event [...]
Getting Rid of False Alarms and Consolidating Monitoring Tools: Hughes Interview Part 1 2008-05-29 12:53:24 We were lucky enough to catch Karl Fosburg, Director of Systems Integration at Hughes
Network Systems and one of our favorite customers, at the Interop Vegas show and shot a short video testimonial with him. In Part 1 of the video, Karl talks about the network monitoring problems that Hughes Network Systems needed to solve [...] Read more:Alarms
, Tools
Links List 5.30.08 2008-05-30 15:24:44 We gave a nod to IBM Tivoli for its Big Green initiative in a post last week. Here’s Michael Cote of RedMonk weighing in on the Tivoli’s green announcement. “The impressiveness…is twofold: bringing actual metrics to the question of power consumption and building out an ecosystem of vendors to service reacting to those metrics.” And [...]
Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure – What You Need to Know 2008-06-02 08:30:31 There’s a lot of noise about virtualization out in the marketplace – from the latest company VMware bought to speculation about Hyper-V to the myriad solutions for virtualization management. I wanted to take a more practical approach to talking about virtualization and share advice and best practices that I’ve learned based upon my own experiences [...] Read more:Infrastructure
EM7 enhancing the strengths of Computer Associates AutoSys 2008-06-03 19:57:20 Which new features make the cut? Our EM7 Meta-appliance new features functionality has been growing about 100-200+ new features with each major release. We receive over 100+ new feature requests each month from customers and prospects.
As our business has grown and the product functionality has grown, the challenge has been to make the right call [...] Read more:strengths
, Computer
, Associates
Economic Downturn Doesn’t Stop Hosting Growth 2008-06-04 15:29:47 While some of us may be suffering in the current global credit squeeze, it may have been just what was required to keep the hosting industry simmering nicely. At least that was one widely held view at the 451 Group’s Hosting
Transformation Summit in London on Tuesday.
Just when data center build outs threatened to escalate [...] Read more:Economic
, Growth
EM7 Enhancing the Strengths of CA AutoSys 2008-06-03 19:57:20 Which new features make the cut? Our EM7 Meta-appliance new features functionality has been growing about 100-200+ new features with each major release. We receive over 100+ new feature requests each month from customers and prospects.
As our business has grown and the product functionality has grown, the challenge has been to make the right call [...]
Planning a Virtualization Infrastructure – What You Need to Know 2008-06-02 08:30:31 There’s a lot of noise about virtualization out in the marketplace – from the latest company VMware bought to speculation about Hyper-V to the myriad solutions for virtualization management. I wanted to take a more practical approach to talking about virtualization and share advice and best practices that I’ve learned based upon my own experiences [...] Read more:Infrastructure
Links List 5.30.08 2008-05-30 15:24:44 We gave a nod to IBM Tivoli for its Big Green initiative in a post last week. Here’s Michael Cote of RedMonk weighing in on the Tivoli’s green announcement. “The impressiveness…is twofold: bringing actual metrics to the question of power consumption and building out an ecosystem of vendors to service reacting to those metrics.” And [...]
Getting Rid of False Alarms and Consolidating Monitoring Tools: Hughes Interview Part 1 2008-05-29 12:53:24 We were lucky enough to catch Karl Fosburg, Director of Systems Integration at Hughes
Network Systems and one of our favorite customers, at the Interop Vegas show and shot a short video testimonial with him. In Part 1 of the video, Karl talks about the network monitoring problems that Hughes Network Systems needed to solve [...] Read more:Alarms
, Tools
Green IT – The Cart and the Horse 2008-05-23 10:06:03 We asked government IT folks at this year’s FOSE show how important Green
IT was to their agencies. The results:
73% said Green IT was important
16% said it wasn’t
9% admitted they didn’t know what the agency’s policy was
The follow up question (and the responses) was the kicker though:
Only 13% had tools/solutions for Green IT in place
An [...] Read more:Horse
Links List 5.23.08 2008-05-23 08:59:46 Royal Pingdom has a fun gallery of different NOCs across the country. From simple to complex, they are displayed here in all their glory.
Network World recently spoke to Doug McClure on BSM Lite. He suggests that BSM Lite needs to be supported by a subset of just four product capabilities: resource monitoring, event collection, event [...]
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