other
« Previous EntriesIT Management Podcast #18 - Jane Curry Evaluates Nagios, OpenNMS, and Zenoss
Saturday, September 13th, 2008Jane Curry of of Skills 1st (MadamTivoli) discusses her recent evaluation of Nagios, OpenNMS, and Zenoss. This is a great podcast.
IT Management Podcast #18 - Jane Curry Evaluates Nagios, OpenNMS, and Zenoss
This is my thousandth post!!!
Friday, September 12th, 2008I started this beast back in May of 2007. It has been an absolute blast. I have made some great new friends and have had the opportunity to be introduced to a lot of brillaint people through this blog.
Thanks
Cloud Cafe #14 GigaSpaces and the Cloud
Friday, September 12th, 2008In this podcast I was able to speak to Geva Perry the General Manager of Cloud Computing at GigiaSpaces. Geva provides a wealth of information on cloud computing and Amazon’s Web Services. If you are a cloud junkie this is a must listen.
GigaSpaces Overview
Economics of the Cloud
Elastic Block Storage
Playing with other Cloud Vendors
Speculation […]
Cloud Cafe #12 rPath and the Cloud
Friday, September 12th, 2008I In this podcast I was able to speck to Marty Wesley, the Director of Product Marketing at rPath. Marty was able to bring me up to speed on what rPath has done with the clouds and specifically with Amazon’s EC2.
Topics include
JeOS - Just Enough Operating System
Hypervisor partnerships
rPath and RightScale
Success Stories
Virtualization in the enterprise
The […]
Top 10 Reasons for NOT Using a Cloud
Thursday, September 11th, 2008Today I realized that I have been kind of stubborn about opening up to the idea of not using a cloud (go figure!). When I read articles that ask the question, “Should the enterprise use the cloud?”, I typically get annoyed and respond with “It’s not a binary question.” Enterprises will […]
How to Train Multitaskers?
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE FOUR PRINCIPLES DESCRIBED IN THIS ARTICLE
Here is the link…
More EBS Links
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store) - Bring Us Your Data
Amazon EBS - Tool and Library Support
Every which way but loosely coupled
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Every which way but loosely coupled
OLAP Cube as a Mind Map
Friday, August 1st, 2008OLAP Cube as a Mind Map
Make sure you check out this freemind example at the end of the blog post it’s really cool.
One 400 Rupee Per Child
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Govt plans laptops for students at Rs 400
That’s around $10 dollars.
My Wife’s Brother’s Wife’s Sister’s Husband
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Over the summer I had the honer of becoming a godfather to my brother-in-law’s daughter. The godmother’s husband was a brilliant young man named Chris Heald. Chris is the founder of a new twitter like startup called blippr.com. Blipper is a cool micro-blogging site for book, movies, and game reviewing. You get 160 characters and […]
My Top 3 posts of all time
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Top 10 Worst Captchas
Demystifying Clouds
Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z
Teach your parents well
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Duke University ran a workshop this month teaching Alice to 33 North Carolina teachers and 32 students . Alice is a wonderful tool that teaches young adults advanced computer programming concepts through animation and video game creation. Both my boys (5 and 9) have been using Alice for about 8 months and they […]
Will OpenNMS v Netcool be the Getteysburg of IT Management
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008During a recent IT Management podcast, Tarus Balog of OpenNMS was making some bold statements about OpenNMS against the IBM Netcool network management products (formally Micromuse’s Precision). Tarus claimed that in the Telco industry OpenNMS is having some significant success with recent clients like Telecom Italia and Swisscom. I tried to cut Tarus off […]
Thinking Out Loud - How will seat pricing work in the cloud?
Monday, July 21st, 2008In a recent IT Management podcast I asked Tarus Balog of OpenNMS if he though his support only model (no software sales) would give him an advantage over his competitors. Unfortunately, he didn’t really respond to my question as Tarus is not a big fan of the clouds. However, it started me […]
Zenny the Zebra and the Future of IT Mangagement
Saturday, July 19th, 2008The Zenoss boys never miss a beat when it comes to recruiting Zenpack contributors. Sorry Matt he is way to young to work on Zenpacks. However, he has written his first “Hello World” in python on his OLPC. Both boys love the Zenny the Zebra beach balls and […]
The Laughing Boardroom - IBM eServer iSeries
Friday, July 18th, 2008I am not a huge fan of the IBM iSeries or what use to called an AS/400; however, this video below really hit home when thinking about a utility company I worked with last year. The video describes what this utility company should have done last year when IBM told them they should move […]
Moodle on Amazon Web Services
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Digital Chalk recently announced integration of Moodle with AWS. Moodle is an open source Learning Management System (LMS) that is registered with almost 40,000 sites and has over 15 million users. Many Universities currently use Moodle as their primary LMS. Moodle is also used by quite a few service training delivery providers. Combining Moodle […]
TIOBE Programming Community Index for July 2008
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008The TIOBE programming language rankings is out again. Python seems to keeps inching up. However, the big story is Microsoft’s Powershell. Powershell wasn’t even ranked in the previous year now it is 15. Also Lua and D are interesting top 20’s. I also had […]
When all you have is a hammer …
Sunday, July 13th, 2008everything looks like a …
…
