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In this episode, John and I spend a lot of time horsing off, but we talk about some on-topic things as well:
- The most important news of the week: John has an iPhone. (And yes, Wal-mart does sell the iPhone.)
- Lower Amazon prices – John details this. The Deli case. No word on the Deli, but there is Memo Jokes.
- How do you setup a Windows box, esp. virtualization. John says ESXi, the free VMWare client.
- SpringSource and cloud foundry – deploying and managing Java apps in public clouds.
- Last episode, John had commented on the valuation for other Little 4 types in light of the SpringSource price. Zenoss’ Mark Hinkle got back to John on this topic.
- We get into enterprise/corporate uses of PaaS – using Heroku and EngineYard as proxy for thinking about how Azure and Java in the clouds might pan out for corporate developers vs. IT staff.
- While the quick and easy approach is awesome, I ask John to recount some IT disasters he’s seen when there’s not enough IT process and too much “quick and easy” think.
- What’s up with devopsdays? In Belgium Oct 30 – 31st – John will present there on the Ubuntu elastic cloud with Chef. From this Patrick Dubous guy. Maikin Piss!
- itSMF Fusion conference – Sep. 20-23rd in Dallas. Is that anything? Agenda looks nice and ITIL-y. Mike Walker in Atlanta runs the ATL itSMF.
- “Cloud Brokers” and extradition free countries – but seriously, John explains this idea of “cloud brokers.”
Disclosure: Zenoss, IBM, Microsoft, SpringSource, and others mentioned are clients.