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Links List 4.11.08 2008-04-11 12:24:17 David Marshall at Virtualization Report highlights the fact that more and more companies are conducting surveys and sharing data on growing virtualization adoption. We’ll be sharing our own survey results from the FOSE show soon – where we asked about the importance of virtualization management to government IT and whether or not agencies had tools [...]
Getting Fired for Being Proactive 2008-04-10 07:02:23 I recently had an interesting conversation, via blog comments, with a network administrator who insisted that if he keeps the network up and running 100% of the time, he loses his job.
His rationale went like this, when the network is up all the time for a couple of years someone inevitably looks and decides [...] Read more:Fired
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Network Fuel 2008-04-09 05:21:45 From InteropNet Hot Stage in San Francisco
In a space where the posters read “Born to Network” and the t-shirts make connections between duct tape and The Force, one might wonder what fuels the work that’s occurring.
Well, if you take a look at the pictures, you’ll discover it’s a heady mix of sugar, [...]
Further Musings on InteropNet 2008-04-08 11:37:49 I am writing this while sitting aboard a flight to San Francisco. (Pretend I was the woman pictured on the right.) I’m on my way to assist with our preparations for the ScienceLogic InteropNet efforts at the San Francisco Hot Stage.
(Picture Credit: Flickr)
While Mike, who’s already been out there working for a week on [...] Read more:Further
, Musings
Movie Magic Made Real: My Favorite Office Life Movie 2008-04-08 04:09:49 What is my favorite “office life” movie?
Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks, Ed Harris and Kevin Bacon. I think that there are so many parallels between Apollo 13 and an innovative technology company creating magical solutions to very complex problems that are currently unsolved, under unrealistically tight deadlines, with limited resources each and every week/month.
You [...] Read more:Favorite
, Magic
A Ban Comes and Goes for IBM 2008-04-04 16:30:33 Blink and you missed it. Just a week after the initial reports of IBM
being banned from new federal government contracts, the ban is lifted.
What happened?
Here’s the best detailed article I could find about what happened. Apparently, IBM might have gotten some insider info on competitors’ bids for a new EPA financial system [...]
Links List 4.4.08 2008-04-04 12:28:12 How much is your time worth? Network Observations shares a report from Network World which states that “research shows that when troubleshooting problems, 90% of the time is spent identifying it”, and another study reveals “74 percent of performance problems reported by end users are not detected by current infrastructure management.“
Speaking of time, ZDNet reported [...]
Virtualization for Dummies 2008-04-03 16:12:03 Although I poke a little fun at the decision to hand-out “Virtualization for Dummies
” to government IT folks at the FOSE conference (see me in the video below or click here), I did think the session on implementing virtualization was very good.
I was impressed with the two specific government projects that were discussed during the [...]
ScienceLogic Leads the Spot 2008-04-03 15:12:39 Washington, D.C. has its share of leaders and executives who know how to succeed in business. The Leader’s Spot by Rebecca Blacksmith is a radio show with a mission of interviewing top leaders in the area and have them share what’s worked and what hasn’t. The interviews demonstrate the life philosophy, determination, and hard work [...] Read more:Leads
FOSE Session: Implementing Virtualization - Enterprise Benefits and Challenges 2008-04-02 10:59:57 The second session handed out a book from its sponsor AMD: Virtualization for Dummies. There were noticeably less attendees in this session than in the Web 2.0 session. Are people more interested in Web 2.0 than virtualization?
Teresa Bozzelli from IDC Government Insights is the moderator, with Dr. Shawn Landry from reVision Inc. (stepping in for [...] Read more:Benefits
Seems Like Old Times at MYSQL 2008-04-17 08:08:08 I have been experiencing an amazing sense of déjà vu at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara this week, from the big announcement a couple of months before the event, to the keynote by the acquisitive CEO. The faces have changed from Lou Gerstner and Jim Manzi to Jonathan Schartz and Marten Mikos, but [...] Read more:Times
Fitting In at the MySQL Conference 2008-04-16 13:52:08 I am posting from sunny (if chilly) Santa Clara at the MySQL
2008 User’s Conference in what in turning out to be a very exciting week. Later in the conference I will be presenting on how we use MySQL in an unusual way to achieve scalability in EM7, but for today I am just [...]
Interop.net Hot Stage — It’s History 2008-04-15 21:58:29 Well, Hot Stage
is officially over. All of the configuration and tweaking that will occur before the equipment shows up in Vegas has been completed. I think that the ScienceLogic effort at Hot Stage was a great success. One of the great things about EM7, is that as an appliance, we didn’t [...] Read more:History
Links List 4.18.08 2008-04-18 12:01:51 Network World’s Sevcik and Wetzel had two posts this week that we really enjoyed, one about networks needing “fire marshals” and “firefighters” to both prevent and respond to network management problems. The other was about the performance management maturity scale, and how reactive diagnosis, proactive intervention, quality warranty and portfolio management can help to identify [...]
A Sudoku End to the MySQL Conference 2008-04-22 10:53:06 Sudoku puzzles as a spectator sport? They were at this year’s MySQL
User Conference.
Swiss query wizard Beat Vontobel applied the craftsmanship of a watchmaker to solve a 6 x 6 Sudoku Puzzle in a single query with LOTs of self joins. It is possible that only serious database geeks think this is cool, but [...] Read more:Sudoku
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:Headache
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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
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
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
Birds of a Feather 2008-04-30 14:37:01 Why are there so many Canadians at Unconference? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that it’s a bunch of guys (and a few ladies) sitting around with beers and chewing the fat – in this case, the “Grid, On-demand and Virtualization” fat.
Fresh off of walking what must have been the equivalent of [...] Read more:Birds
Citrix’s Mark Templeton Keynotes at Interop Las Vegas ‘08 2008-04-30 13:12:29 Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix delivered today’s opening keynote. His comparison of the best way to build an on demand system is DirecTV…Interesting comparison, stating that they give on demand control to the user, similar to how non IT departments are spending money on Web 2.0 technologies.
One principle that he wants to get across is [...] Read more:Vegas
Helping to Deliver at Interop, One Flashing Light at a Time! 2008-05-01 12:03:55 Technical Opportunities for increasing the EM7 visibility at Interop.
I have been manning the NOC help desk for the past week and it has been a complete blast working with a world class team of engineers to set-up the “largest Temporary network in the world!”
First you start with the problem.
The problem was how to collect and [...] Read more:Helping
Interop 2008: Keynote Jayshree V. Ullal 2008-05-02 08:38:04 Jayshree V. Ullal is the Senior Vice President, Data Center for the Switching and Services Group at Cisco.
Jayshree manages Cisco Catalyst and new Nexus Data Center Switching Series. She was the keynote speaker at Interop on Tuesday, and I enjoyed hearing her discuss Cisco’s strategies and customer insights. Her team also won “Best at Interop” [...] Read more:Keynote
Interop 2008: Keynote Jayshree V. Ullal 2008-05-02 08:38:04 Jayshree V. Ullal is the Senior Vice President, Data Center for the Switching and Services Group at Cisco.
Jayshree manages Cisco Catalyst and new Nexus Data Center Switching Series. She was the keynote speaker at Interop on Tuesday, and I enjoyed hearing her discuss Cisco’s strategies and customer insights. Her team also won “Best at Interop” [...] Read more:Keynote
Helping to Deliver at Interop, One Flashing Light at a Time! 2008-05-01 12:03:55 Technical Opportunities for increasing the EM7 visibility at Interop.
I have been manning the NOC help desk for the past week and it has been a complete blast working with a world class team of engineers to set-up the “largest Temporary network in the world!”
First you start with the problem.
The problem was how to collect and [...] Read more:Helping
Birds of a Feather 2008-04-30 14:37:01 Why are there so many Canadians at Unconference? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that it’s a bunch of guys (and a few ladies) sitting around with beers and chewing the fat – in this case, the “Grid, On-demand and Virtualization” fat.
Fresh off of walking what must have been the equivalent of [...] Read more:Birds
Citrix’s Mark Templeton Keynotes at Interop Las Vegas ‘08 2008-04-30 13:12:29 Mark Templeton, CEO of Citrix delivered today’s opening keynote. His comparison of the best way to build an on demand system is DirecTV…Interesting comparison, stating that they give on demand control to the user, similar to how non IT departments are spending money on Web 2.0 technologies.
One principle that he wants to get across is [...] Read more:Vegas
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