Links for January 30th

HP POD
VKernel – Capacity and Chargeback Virtual Appliance for ESX Servers
Welcome to bluebear.
Configuration Control – Tripwire
Veeam: VMware ESX Virtualization Management
VMware hires Borland CEO as its new COO | virtualization.info
Ah-hah! So that's where the Borland CEO ended up.
Microsoft releases stand-alone Hyper-V 2.0 with Quick and Live Migration | virtualization.info
Microsoft launches MED-V 1.0 beta | virtualization.info
lostcreations.com – vmm
Manager virtual junk on your iPhone.
Release: Replicate Technologies RDA 1.2 | virtualization.info
Zenoss to Demonstrate Enterprise Virtualization Management Solution at West 2009 – Commercial Open Source Application, Systems and Network Monitoring – Zenoss
"Management Features of Zenoss Enterprise include:
* Native, agentless VMware monitoring of entire virtualization infrastructure
* Automatic discovery and inventory of all virtual infrastructure (VI3) components including virtual machines, ESX Servers, clusters, and VMware data stores
* Physical and virtual resource usage and performance (memory, disk, CPU, and more)
* Real-time detection when virtual machines move from one VMware host to another (called VMotion)
* Physical and virtual performance and availability information correlated and displayed in a single, central web console"
Appirio helps companies reach your Facebook friends » VentureBeat
Appirio with some SI-like work in the cloud. Laying a PaaS on-top of a SaaS – woo-doggy!
Outsourcing suddenly less popular
"The company said that outsourcing to save costs made more sense because companies needed to save more money in a downturn, but that that downturn made it harder to fund the process." Gotta get a car to get a girl, gotta get a job to get a car, gotta get a girl to get a job…wait…what was I talking about?
Aperi dies on its arse
The Economy According To Mint
Imagine this kind of thing applied to pooled info on IT metrics: number of Windows XP installs, MySQL DB installs, etc. There's one angle of Collaborative IT Management.
Tracking Influence in Twitter | Web Analytics Demystified | Audience Measurement and Web Site Analysis Consulting
What if your storage cloud turns stormy? | InfoWorld | News | 2009-01-30 | By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service
Online data shows netbook demand rocketing
"Ten per cent of online computer buyers now owns a netbook and almost 20 per cent of mobile PCs sought out by buyers in December 2008 was one of these mini-laptops…. So reveals survey data from price-comparison site PriceGrabber, based on an online questionnaire fielded earlier this year and filled in by some 1545 respondents."
HP gives SMBs zero per cent financing
"In essence, HP is letting customers have the gear they want today and giving them a year to pay it off without charging them for the use of the gear or the money." Man, that seems like a good deal.
First Official Description of GDrive
Consumer cloud-storage.
IBM expands SaaS ecosystem
"Big Blue on Friday announced an agreement with iEnterprises that enables the latter to offer its CRM software SaaS-style to customers in the construction, pharmaceutical, legal, and other vertical industries, the companies say."
When IBM Beats Facebook And Twitter: Discover Relevant People Within Your Network
It'd be great if IBM could move as fast as this post would like, eh?
Hyperic, JasperSoft team to provide IQ systems intelligence solution
Reports over Hyperic HQ data, starting at $5,000.
My Talk at Mozilla
How do People Use Tabs?
"The big thing I took away from Patrick’s presentation was that among heavy web users, tabs are enabling new styles of browsing behavior that rely less on bookmarking and less on the back button. According to Patrick, the back button is getting used less and less as the years go by, and for all but two of his test subjects, switching tabs was a more common action than hitting 'back.'" Tabs rule, baby!
Amazon Web Services Developer Community : Using Amazon S3 with Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight
WidgetFX @ M3DD Conference « Steve on Java
"The official [JavaFX Mobile] release is due out in February."
Adobe: Open source is hard
"If Adobe wants to make Flex a true open-source project (and it's very likely that it doesn't, and for very good reasons), it needs to put Flex into a foundation structure, similar to Eclipse, Mozilla, and others, just as many have clamored for Sun to do with Java and OpenOffice.org."
Take Flex Back For the Community
Softly threatening to fork Flex is Adobe doesn't open up the process more. Yowza!
Flex SDK Source does not an “open source” project make
"This is the crux of this post/rant/whatever – Creating an open source project is about openness in planning and development. Not just about giving people the right to do with the code what they will. And this part of the Flex project is a complete failure."
Flex Community Feedback Forum – Attend or Open Source May End?
More on open source and the Flash Platform.
Open at Adobe: Communications go both ways
Nice dip-stick into the state of open source around the Flash Platform. The comments add up to some excellent commentary and advice.
Lab – MIX Online
Some software coming out of the MIX conference from Microsoft, including an open source content management system, Oxite.
Fun with Flash and SAP’s NetWeaver Platform | Ryan Stewart – Rich Internet Application Mountaineer

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