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— December 17, 2008 at 2:00 pm

IT Management Podcast #29 – Whacky Predictions, 2009 Edition

Totally.

(Warning: we manage to let slip 2 or 3 four letter words in this episode, so be warned if that offends.)

Download the episode directly right here, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here:

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For this special episode of the IT Management podcast, we go over our whacky predictions for 2009. John and I lucky to be joined by Dave Rosenberg (see also his Open Sources podcast with Matt Asay), self described “man about town,” and IT Management Podcast regular Matt Ray, community manager at Zenoss.

Very quickly, we first review the 2008 whacky predictions (from our first show, how cute!), all of which were, indeed, whacky save one, which was a sort of timid prediction.

And then it gets into the whack-job free-for-all with all four of throwing out our tech world predictions and discussing each. Sprinkled throughout the truly whacky predictions (Apple buys Sun), we have some pretty rational ones (Eucalyptus and Cloudera becoming big deals).

Here’s an incomplete preview, whacky and sane:

  • Apple launches its own cloud
  • A net-celeberty lives off their iPhone for a year
  • US government web-sites get APIs
  • Amazon starts a marketplace for virtual goods
  • A major cloud data break occurs
  • Google buys Yahoo! Or maybe Viacom
  • Open source startups begin to consolidate as they miss numbers
  • The return of paying for software, even at low cost. App Store!
  • Amazon buys DHL
  • Netbooks become low-cost thin clients

Disclosure: IBM, Microsoft, Cloudera, and Zenoss are clients, as was Dave’s former employer, MuleSource. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.

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By cote
— December 16, 2008 at 7:06 pm

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By linkposter
— December 16, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Michael Lester on Product Protfolio Management

While at the IBM Telelogic User Group in Austin, I had the chance to talk with IBM’s Michael Lester, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Focal Point. More so than the core idea of product portfolio management (or, PPM), I ask Michael to tell us how products like Focal Point actually attache dollar signs to things like software all through-out the software life-cycle. That said, we do spend a good chunk of time detailing the inner-workings of a PPM product and what it does for an organization, especially when it comes to planning.

Naturally, Telelogic being part of IBM Rational now, we wrap-up by discussing how Focal Point will fit into the Rational portfolio.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

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By cote
— December 15, 2008 at 8:28 pm

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By linkposter
— December 15, 2008 at 1:00 pm

IT Management Podcast #28 – Getting Ripped-off in the Cloud

Cisco C-Scape

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We join <a href="http://www.johnmwills.comJohn in the car as he's driving to pick up his kids and while I have a weird voice from a cold. We start out talking about Amazon EU, launching AWS in Europe. This gets us into a discussion about the geographic importance of cloud computing when it comes to performance and regulation.

This gets us into a recent conversation I had where a vendor had been trying to convince a customer to get into way over-priced cloud computing. Sometimes, on-premise will be just fine, not to mention cheaper.

I bring up a recent write-up by Dave Rosenberg about using cloud and SaaS at one of his past companies, and then John tells us about listening in to the recent Oracle on AWS call. We re-cap the Zoho CloudSQL news as well.

As I was at Cisco C-Scape this week, I go over the cloud and IT related content and impressions I gathered over in San Jose.

Mixed in somewhere here we talk about counter-intutive interview tips like: something they want you tell them the question is confusing because that’s what your job is going to be like.

Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.

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By cote
— December 12, 2008 at 6:47 pm

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By linkposter
— December 12, 2008 at 2:00 pm

The Software Delivery Platform with Dominic Tavassoli – IBM Telelogic Innovation 2008

While at the IBM Telelogic User Group meeting in Austin, I had the chance to with Dominic Tavassoli. We spent our time talking about “the software delivery platform.” What this means is the collection of processes and tools you’d use to take software from conception, to development, to testing, to release, and back through again. Sort of a “backbone” for the application life-cycle management an organization does. There’s also documenting, best practices, and compliance to industry processes and standards to worry about.

As with most Telelogic discussions what’s interesting here is to see how these ideas apply to systems programming – where software is usually running in/on a device other than a traditional computer – and how that changes the needs and the desires.

Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

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By cote
— December 11, 2008 at 6:51 pm

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By linkposter
— December 11, 2008 at 1:00 pm

What should you put in the cloud right now?

Lighting the C-Scape Reception

As you may have picked up, I’m on the SearchDataCenter.com Advisory Board. Part of this “boarding” involves answering questions from time-to-time. The current question was interesting:

For this month’s data center advisory board question, we asked our panel if data center managers should consider cloud computing for their operations, and under what scenarios.

The panelists offered very specific advice on where to use cloud computing, and provided a checklist of cloud computing risks to consider, while others offered healthy skepticism about the entire concept.

It’s great to read the variety of replies from the board; as you know from the IT Management podcast we’re all a little cloud-crazy over here.

How much are you paying for your intranet apps?

My answer revolved around something you might have heard me talk about before, namely, IT managers should be looking at low-priority intranet sites and applications and ask if it’d be more cost efficient to move them to a cloud-based (or SaaS-based) service.

Here’s a the start of my answer:

IT managers should be looking at converting their on-premise infrastructure to what we recently called “Software-as-a-Service” and now the bucket of “cloud computing.” If your email isn’t in the cloud already, there should be a fantastically good reason, like regulations that prevent off-premises email.

Can you host your instant messaging in the cloud? How about file sharing and basic intranet functions?

Check out the rest in the full piece and the fine answers from my fellow boardies. Also, you can check out our previous answer to the question of the IT department can survive the economic downturn.

Disclosure: SearchDataCenter.com pays RedMonk a small fee for our participation.

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By cote
— December 10, 2008 at 12:29 pm