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Robert on using Twitter, for the second time around.
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Break-down of HP’s IT Management stuff into a handy-dandy outline.
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Check out Sam talking towards the end about how “cloud” stuff can help accelerate business build-up in emerging countries. You can trade money for time to build out your own infrastructure – HR, back-office stuff, “paper-work” – and have “the cloud” do it
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Cirba’s virtualization consolidation stuff gets System z support. Move them virtualized workloads off to Linux running on a mainframe.
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Seems like Dell is saying, “hey, we’ll help you virtualize.”
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“We think we are a serious player in this game,”said Larry Orecklin, the general manager of the Windows enterprise and management division. “We want to become the systems management platform [in the enterprise].”
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Monitor desired configuration, enforce standard config, and spin up the freak-out flag otherwise.
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Consulting for open source configuration management.
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Monitoring!
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Figuring out how to measure the success of an CMDB install. Seem like a difficult nut to crack as you need the top, user-facing layer as well. Nonetheless, some good thinking.
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Confusion of what part of the JavaFX brand will be open and what won’t be.
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“[A]lmost one in six households (15.8 percent) are wireless-only, meaning that at least one family in the household owns a wireless phone but there is no landline telephone.”
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Wow, congress passes a law, the states totally ignore it, and no one cares. “I am McLovin.”
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Nice summary of CA’s analyst conference. Too bad I couldn’t make it.
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“Using FireScope’s new CMDB, IT organizations gain real-time visualization and documentation of their infrastructure along with a complete view of the interrelationships of the software and systems impacting those operations… “
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Classic. Big storage vendor uses old version of SNMP which bugs out, then tells OpenNMS to suck it when they discover it’s broken.
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Pin-pointing where stuff is broken between the user’s screen and the back-end.
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Doug on putting together your reports and dashboards for getting smiles up the chain.
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More interesting than the approach is what do afterwards: “How can we Use each Strength? How can we Stop each Weakness? How can we Exploit each Opportunity? How can we Defend against each Threat?”
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Instead of asking what you have to get started, ask what you want to have and figure out getting there.
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2007 IBM announcement about their cloud computing stuff. Sounds grid-y. “Cloud computing is an emerging approach to shared infrastructure in which large pools of systems are linked together to provide IT services.”
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This one will give you nightmares. CLICK IF YOU DARE!
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