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Links List 6.9.08 2008-06-09 09:05:46 A different twist on the weekly links of interest, here are some blogs that I have been reading and commenting on lately that I have found especially noteworthy.
We’ve talked about green IT, and Cisco’s VP of green engineering Paul Marcoux had a nice Q&A which fits in nicely and is well worth the read. He [...]
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 [...]
Eco-Efficient Datacenters: Where’s the Money? 2008-06-10 10:00:25 Global warming does not seem to have reached the UK yet this summer judging by my week here, but it has definitely been climbing the IT service provider’s agenda, to the point where The Web Hosting Industry Review dedicated their May edition to the subject (everybody needs their “green edition”).
Actually one of the most entertaining [...] Read more:Money
Interop Las Vegas 2008 - Some Interesting Stats 2008-06-11 09:44:02 I’ve spent a significant amount of time over the past few days looking at the data that EM7 collected on the network at Interop. A few of the statistics caught my eye and I spent some time talking to Geoff Horne, the Chief Architect of InteropNet about them. Here are the ones that we thought [...] Read more:Vegas
, Stats
Links List 6.13.08 2008-06-13 08:01:36 Nothing to do with monitoring, but completely funny. I have not been following the Broadcom ex-CEO Henry Nicholas’ exploits, and now I think I should have been. Not only did this bad boy add a fictional $2.2 billion worth of revenue to his company’s bottom line, a second indictment also charges him with a slew [...]
Interop Vegas 2008 - A Tale of User Error 2008-06-12 23:27:25 When I think of Interop, I tend to think of pretty technical vendors all gathered together in Vegas
for 3 days of geeking out. What’s interesting, is an analysis of the trouble tickets that were opened in EM7 for Interop Vegas 2008, doesn’t necessarily play that story out. If the types of problems [...]
Links List 6.27.08 2008-06-27 15:02:04 Peanut butter and chocolate. Beavis and Butthead. Social networking and CMDB? Here’s a great blog post on the recently released myCMDB from Managed Objects. The IT Skeptic is as funny as ever.
We heard a lot about cloud computing at the Gartner show this week. You can read a bit about their take on it here. [...]
Q&A with Geoff Horne of InteropNet 2008-06-25 11:20:59 Earlier this week I had the chance to sit down with Geoff
Horne, Chief Architect for InteropNet, and discuss how he thought things went at Interop Vegas 2008 and how he thinks the lessons learned apply to enterprises.
(Photo credit: The Tech Stop)
ScienceLogic: How long have you been involved with Interop?
Geoff Horne: Since about [...]
Happy Birthday Toddler - - CMDB just turned 2 2008-06-24 15:24:00 I participated in a very interesting Gartner IT Operations Management symposium session titled “Ensuring your CMDB Success: Ready, Set, Go!”
Research Director Patricia Adams and VP and Distinguished Analyst Ronnie Colville presented this thought provoking session. It seemed to echo what ScienceLogic has been talking about regarding our thinking around the practical ways to efficiently [... Read more:Happy
, Birthday
, turned
, Happy Birthday
A Hot Cloudless Computing Day in Florida 2008-06-24 14:46:12 From the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit in balmy Florida
…
First of all, I’d like to point out a major difference between the Gartner conference and the big Cisco Live user conference going on down here at the same time. Keynotes start at 8am at the Gartner show – and before that is breakfast, [...] Read more:Computing
Web 2.0 Adoption by the Federal Government Shouldn’t be a Surprise 2008-06-24 06:33:34 Driving back from the dentist today, I was listening to a WTOP story about the adoption of Web 2.0 by the government. With half my mouth numb from being shot up with anesthetics, I decided this was the perfect time to do a blog post on this.
Back at the FOSE show in April, we conducted [...] Read more:Adoption
, Federal
, Government
, Surprise
Google’s Culture of Yes 2008-06-23 10:21:46 Recently, Eric Schmidt gave quite an inspirational speech at the Economic Club of Washington. It was so interesting; I wanted to share this with you in case you missed it. The entire speech is rather long but here’s the section on Google
’s Culture of Yes.
After hearing his speech, I thought about how Eric and [...]
IT Operations Management – Audience Polls at the Gartner Conference 2008-06-23 10:09:22 Greetings from the Gartner
IT Infrastucture, Operations & Management
Summit 2008 – in warm and humid Florida!
A couple of notes from the first day’s keynote address “IT Operations Management Scenarios: Trends, Directions and Market Landscape” by Donna Scott – VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner Research.
Donna: Today customers are looking for 100% availability [...] Read more:Audience
, Polls
Links List 6.20.08 2008-06-20 16:26:55 Dana Gardner discusses the recently announced partnership of VMWare and HP. They seek to offer enterprises and service providers a single management and control approach to both physical and virtual software infrastructure stacks. A fun little game: count the number of HP modules you have to buy for a “complete” virtualization management solution.
John Willis talks [...]
A VMware VirtualCenter Design Flaw? 2008-06-19 15:30:16 Here is an interesting little obstacle we ran into when setting up our virtualization environment.
We found that when we were in VMware VirtualCenter, we can add permissions via the inventory datastore & networks view but once we did that there was no easy way to view or delete the permissions within the same view. [...]
Links List 7.11.08 2008-07-11 18:48:16 The big news this week is of course Diane Greene’s surprising ousting as CEO of virtualization giant VMware. There was a lot of speculation about the reasoning behind this decision – from stock prices dropping for VMware and parent EMC to fighting Microsoft with Microsoft (new CEO Paul Maritz is an old MS exec) to [...]
Diane Greene Ousted from VMware 2008-07-08 14:09:35 VMware and EMC announced today that co-founder DianeGreene
is leaving her post as CEO of the virtualization giant, effectively immediately. Former Microsoft executive, Paul Maritz, head of EMC’s cloud computing division, will replace her. (img credit Fortune Magazine/Joe Pugliese)
There’s speculation that falling VMware share prices, with no end in sight because of “poor revenue
Qlusters Out of Business 2008-07-08 08:44:29 Sarah let us know that Qlusters had “bitten the dust” after we mentioned the company in relation to Groundwork OpenSource last week. Thank you, Sarah!
What are the signs that a systems management company is going out of business?
a) they abandon their open source project, which was supposedly tied to their commercially supported version
b) they [...] Read more:Business
Links List 7.3.08 2008-07-03 10:51:53 A “new era for Microsoft” as Bill Gates leaves the company? Paula Rooney on Virtually Speaking says, “it seems fitting that Hyper-V shipped on the same day Bill Gates exited the Windows company.” Will Microsoft also ‘usher in’ open source now that the big man is gone?
Five years in the making, Hyper-V finally ships. Is [...]
Virtualization Needs vs. Cool Features 2008-07-01 16:00:08 Regardless of the size of your virtualization project you will probably ask two of the most common questions before you even start:
What product(s) & version(s) should I use?
How much should I plan to spend?
The simplest answer of course is “it depends”. I’ve seen implementations range from a thousand bucks to over several million. Ideally, your [...] Read more:Needs
Time’s Up – IPv6 OMB Mandate 2008-06-30 14:27:18 Three years ago, the OMB set a June 2008 deadline “by which all agencies’ infrastructure (network backbones) must be using IPv6 and agency networks must interface with this infrastructure.”
Agencies are supposed to demonstrate that they can:
Transmit IPv6 traffic from the Internet and external peers, through the core (WAN), to the LAN.
Transmit IPv6 traffic from the [...]
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