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• System Center, Battling over Virtualization, Microsoft and IBM, PowerShell, and open source at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007

  November 28, 2007 at 6:20 pm / Conferences, Interviews

  Wrapping up the episodes from Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, James and I talk about the discussions and announcements at the event. First, James comments on the seeming maturity that both the attendees and Microsoft itself has after all these years of TechEd. Then we get ask if virtualization will avoid the usual zero-sum battle that every other technology goes through – the answer is probably obvious. Moving onto the broader industry, we comment on the long relationship between [...]

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• System Center Tour – Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007

  November 28, 2007 at 6:18 pm / Conferences, Interviews

  Finishing up the interview series at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, I talk with Eric Berg (Director of Product Management, System Center) about the System Center product lines. While we focus on only Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager, we go into detail on each. We start out going over the linage of the System Center brand: mapping MOM to System Center Operations Manager and SMS to System Center Configuration Manager. Then Eric describes what function both [...]

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• System Center Strategic Alliances and Partners – Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007

  November 28, 2007 at 5:15 pm / Conferences, Interviews

  Outside the main conference center for Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, James talks with Carl Coken (Director of Strategic Alliances, System Center) about partnerships and standards in System Center land. Carl manages the relationships with third parties, organizations, and others that work with the System Center platform, for example, by providing management packs. James and Carl talk about the new portal available for partners and then jump into the role of the portal’s information in the sales process. The [...]

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• IBM’s Carol Jones on Web 2.0 Research and Collaborative Software

  November 28, 2007 at 8:40 am / Conferences, Interviews

  While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James Governor talks with Carol Jones about applying IBM collaborative research to products. They start by discussing exactly what "Web 2.0" means and then talk about the transition of research to shipping product, using IBM's dogear as an example.

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• IBM Rational Now, part 3 – RESTful Development and the Rational Toolchain

  November 27, 2007 at 10:32 pm / Conferences, Interviews

  While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James Governor talks with Martin Nally, CTO of Rational, and Dave Tropeano, who works in the office of the CTO. In this, third, part they discuss the effect that RESTful thinking has had on the rational toolchain. Disclaimer: IBM is a client.

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• IBM Rational Now, part 2 – Packaged Applications and the IBM Rational Toolchain

  November 27, 2007 at 10:31 pm / Conferences, Interviews

  While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James Governor talks with Martin Nally, CTO of Rational, and Dave Tropeano, who works in the office of the CTO. In this part, Dave and James discuss how IBM’s Rational toolchain helps those who develop “packaged applications,” that is, software to be packaged and sold rather than solely delivered in-house. Disclaimer: IBM is a client.

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• IBM Rational Now, part 1 – Recent Changes for Rational, and Agile Software Development

  November 27, 2007 at 10:25 pm / Interviews, Video

  While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James Governor talks with Martin Nally, CTO of Rational, and Dave Tropeano, who works in the office of the CTO. They discuss how Rational has changed, in James view, over recently and then get into a discusion of how the current Rational tool-chain is aimed at helping scale Agile software development up. Disclaimer: IBM is a client. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v) [...]

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• Presentation Styles and Clip-art

  November 27, 2007 at 10:15 pm / Interviews, Video

  While waiting to film another segment at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James Governor, Carol Jones, and I talk about different presentation styles and finding clip-art with flickr. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v) Tags: presentations, clipart, flickr, ibmanalystconf07, lessig

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• Jeremiah Stone on the BusinessByDesign (A1S) Launch

  November 27, 2007 at 5:40 pm / Video

  Earlier this year SAP announced it's launch of BusinessByDesign which had previously been under the project- and code-name of "A1S." James Governor had the chance to talk with Jeremiah Stone, a solution manager for BusinessByDesign, on the topic. See James' coverage of the announcement for further analysis.

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• IBM’s Anant Jhingran on Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

  November 27, 2007 at 3:09 pm / Video

  While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James talks IBM’s Anant Jhingran about IBM’s application of Web 2.0 ideas to information management in the enterprise. Of note, they spend some time talking about the navigating the cultural waters and changes in the IT department and balancing the need for IT control with the less control based elements of Web 2.0 think.

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• PowerShell Overview and Remote Update – Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007

  November 16, 2007 at 4:21 pm / Conferences, Interviews

  In the lobby of the Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona I got the chance to catch up with Jeffrey Snover, Architect, Management Services Division. Jeffery gives us an overview of PowerShell and then we talk about Microsoft and other’s use of PowerShell since it’s release a year ago. As Jeffery tells us that PowerShell has been downloaded over one million times, and then we jump into a discussion of what companies and partners are doing with PowerShell, diving deep [...]

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• Building System Center Management Packs – Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007

  November 16, 2007 at 7:16 am / Conferences, Interviews

  While at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona, I talked with Barry Shilmover (Senior Program Manager, System Center) about creating System Center management packs. Management packs are the sort of “plugin” parts of the System Center platform that do the discovery, monitoring, and management for System Center in addition to containing the help “knowledge.” Barry walks us through the life-cycle of a management pack when it’s executing – discovery, monitoring, and then executing management tasks as needed – and then [...]

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• Jerrilyn Glanville on Analyst Relations

  November 12, 2007 at 8:27 am / Conferences, Interviews

  In this segment from the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James talks with Jerrilyn Glanville, a veteran of IBM Analyst Relations (“AR” for short). The discuss the role of AR, both on the side of the analyst and executives, some examples of different styles and idiosyncrasies of both analysts and execs, and then talk about the changing nature of analysts. Finally, by way of a question from James on IBM seeming to be more interested in conversations than “transactions” [...]

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• Multi-core, Dynamic Languages, and Concurrency

  November 12, 2007 at 8:24 am / Conferences, Interviews

  While at the IBM Software Group Connection Summit 2007, James talks with IBM Distinguished Engineer Bob Blainey about the present and future of multi-core processors and dynamic languages. They talk about which languages are out in the wilds of the IBM customer and user base, and then discuss some possible scenerios for the future. Disclaimer: IBM is a client and paid T&E to this event.

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