IT Management & Cloud Podcast #43 – News Catch Up

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This week, John and I catch up on several weeks worth of news, cramming a lot in:

• John in China. Seems like there’s lots of open source IT Management in China. Industrial park Waixi for cloud stuff – see Mike O’Rourke RSC video for more, that Coté references. John thinks IBM must be pushing a lot of iron (hardware) over there. Of course, we talk about the food in China, which John says is fantastic.
• IBM’s Cloud announcements – Rational tools in the cloud, CloudBurst, Virtual desktop stuff. CloudBurst: 42U rack VMWare ESX with Tivoli Monitoring and Tivoli Provisioning manager. John Willis getting exciting about IBM Blue Cloud!
• Here, we get into talking about different approaches the private clouds: dramatically changing the role of IT, or playing along with the “way it is.”
• In “good, old fashioned IT Management” news, there have been several recent releases: GroundWork, Zenoss, Spiceworks.
• John’s recent Hadoop adventures… the trend of mass data/BI vendor talk going on now.
• Microsoft STB Analyst Summit – also, Management Pack for Novell SUSE Linux. SDM/SML/Oslo. Also, MOF usage (by chance, see this ITIL/MOF decoder ring).
• Also: Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010 – Bjorn Axell summerizes a little video from the SCE team. Also, SC OpsMgr is coming out with a new release in July: check out overview post on it.
• CA gets Cassatt’s IP – probably for automation and cloud stuff.
• John wonders, who’s the Big 4/Little 4 of cloud computing? We solve it with an inside joke.
• RightScale has Mårten Mickos on their board. Eucalyptus friendship there? Also, Ubuntu has Eucalyptus bundles in it.
• Google Wave – see also Stephen O’Grady’s take.
• SalesForce Force.com free app, Sites. The chance to build on SalesForce.com and Intuit’s Partner Program seem interesting.
• Coté will be around for Velocity, CloudCampSF, Structure. Also, in August, I’ll be at OpenSourceWorld, which appears to be free for some now.
• SolarWinds IPO.
• Seems like CITTIO shut down while I was out. Also, a 451 write-up of Nimsoft getting big.

Disclosure: IBM, Microsoft, GroundWork, Zenoss, Spiceworks, Intuit, and Cloudera are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients that might have been mentioned.