- MindTouch Announces Availability of Technical Communications Suite
“…a toolset of easy to deploy, easy to use, and highly engaging tools for successfully launching a turnkey documentation community in minutes.” - IT pros explore SaaS-based infrastructure monitoring
“Monitoring will probably always require something on-premise, but you can secure connections between the data center and the cloud pretty well, so it probably shouldn’t be an issue,” said Coté. - Guez family fiasco (1985) | JOEZ Message Board Posts
Trouble in fashion land: "The bookkeeper claims Paul Guez whacked him with a pool rack and threatened to kill him." - Hands on: Roku rocks as it slims down, adds 1080p support
- Dell Promotes 'Scale-Out' Vision For Data Centers At Oracle OpenWorld
"Dell said revenue from his company's server, storage and services operations have grown more than 50 percent in the last year. Services alone has become an $8 billion business for the company. Dell said 41 percent of all servers shipped in the U.S. today are Dell and the company has sold 15 million servers in the past 10 years." - IBM punts first z196 mainframes • The Register
"Swiss Re has taken delivery of two fully loaded zEnterprise 196 mainframes in its Zurich data center, each with 96 cores. These machines were launched in July and can have 80 cores spinning at 5.2 GHz and 3 TB allocated to a single system image running z/OS. With 80 cores dedicated to z/OS, the z196 is rated at more than 50,000 MIPS of aggregate processing capacity. At 1,200 MIPS of raw performance each, each single engine in the box has about 30 percent more MIPS than its z10 predecessors." - Visual Basic developers get access to Windows Phone 7
- Dell's tiny Zino HD HTPC gets quad-core and Blu-ray options
Dell's AppleTV and such competitor. - Flex Builder for Linux project ending
The perpetually in beta Linux version of Flex Builder is end of lifed. - The Way I Work: Michael Arrington of TechCrunch
I love these "how I work," "what's in my bag," "a look at my office," type of look into the daily lives of productive and/or famous people. E.g.: "TechCrunch is known for our parties. That’s how I met all my sources in the early days. These days, we do three big blowouts every year, five or six smaller events, and then a few small parties. It winds up being an event every month, and I try to go to all of them. I started the tradition when I first moved to Palo Alto in 2005. I wrote a blog post inviting people to a party—10 people came. I made hamburgers. We drank beer and stayed up until 4 a.m. drinking Scotch by the fire. Two weeks later, I had another party, and 20 people showed up. About 100 people came to the next one, then 200. Venture capitalists were smoking pot in my backyard and passing out on my couch. I stopped having parties at my house, because it was getting trashed. About 1,000 people came to our party this summer." - Customer Demand for Choice Driving New Era of IT Service Management at BMC Software – BMC Software
BMC's most recent service desk offering: posed as being flexible in that is can run on-premise or as a SaaS. Also, interesting Gartner quote on how "pure-play SaaS providerS" (read: Service-now.com) will have to compete "on the turf of the incumbent, rather than the other way around." I don't know: for the most part, I think there's a bit of an Enterprise Software Stockholm Syndrome going on if you think you need on-premise service desk. We'll see. - OtherInBox Scores $1.5M
Good to see that Solarwinds loot at work 😉 - What is in Our Kitchen?
Internal IT at Cloudera. - Facebook (2) | Austin, TX jobs
Many jobs for Facebook in Austin, mostly "analysts" and sales/marketing type. - IBM – UPMC takes healthcare delivery to new levels with dynamic infrastructure (09/02/2008)
Case on an 8 year project with IBM: "By simplifying its IT infrastructure through virtualization, for instance, UPMC is able to support over 220 percent more server capacity without the need to hire any additional support staff. On top of that, the server consolidation afforded by its virtualization strategy enabled UPMC to significantly reduce its floor-space requirements. In addition to enabling UPMC to avoid facilities expansion that would have been needed under the baseline scenario, consolidation freed space that UPMC can now repurpose for revenue-generating clinical activity." - Is UPMC's $402M Deal With IBM Paying Off? (2007)
- IBM – Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB) (06/29/2010)
Cited as a write-up of IBM's Smarter Data Center stuff in action: "SBB, along with Alcatel-Lucent, developed a service management solution using IBM technology to provide a comprehensive view of the client’s overall infrastructure. IBM Tivoli® Netcool™ monitors status of IT and physical assets – including switches and sensors – throughout the client’s network that connects over 800 train stations and rail lines. And, automated diagnostics and alerts systems reduce the likelihood of future outages."
Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.
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