Bulgarians are kind – IT Management & Cloud Podcast #57

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After a brief hiatus, John Willis and I are back. We’ve got a lot of catching up to do:

• John in Bulgaria – the shrinking brain – SpringSource guy talk – Clojure.
• Coté gets Infochimps and 80legs confused, and here’s the interesting looking airlines Big Data talk mentioned. And check out the 80legs competition I’ll be a judge in.
• NoSQL East – where John is keynoting.
• Bulgarian food
• SpringOne panel re-telling – it turns out Coté is pretty conservative on cloud computing. Later, we talk about Cloud Foundry demos and vSphere during the cloud keynotes here.
• This gets us to discussing some ideas for getting mainstream IT involved in cloud computing – starting small, legacy vs. green-field, etc.
• The problem with coming up with a good phrase for “post SQL”
• Amazon MySQL offering – AWS blog and Cloud Ave. coverage.
• Cloud brokering and some paper on the theory of hierarchy.
• BMC buys Tideway – discovery, and using it to think about how BMC goes about acquiring companies
• Sidekick storage scandal – not so much a cloud story, but a teaching moment for doing personal risk management with consumer technology.
• NPR’s “privacy is dead” series.
• Coté rants about “The Kids” not being so IT savvy as we might think they’ll be. (As I disclose at the end, I’m not really suggesting they’re dumb, but looking to push the cliché stories about The Kids along to something more useful.)
• Ubuntu Cloud road-show, Nov 10th in London with RedMonk’s own James Governor.
• Unbuntu 9.10 Server – John goes over option for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud.
• SpiceWorld and SpiceWorks growth. Keep a look out for the video of the panel I moderated – the panelists had some excellent, pragmatic tips for IT getting by in bad economic times.
• GroundWork, series D funding.
• Zenoss 2.5 update – with cloud friendly stuff.
• Quick pointers: dev2ops interview with Lee Thompson, Sun OpsManager, IBM Dynamic Infrastructure bucket of announcements, John has a good ControlTier interview.
• Two new Big Data books: Heads First Data Analysis and Cloud Security and Privacy.

Disclosure: Groundwork, Zenoss, IBM, Spiceworks, Basho, Canonical, Microsoft, and others mentioned are clients.