{"id":1624,"date":"2008-09-25T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/09\/25\/itmanagement20\/"},"modified":"2008-09-25T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T22:32:23","slug":"itmanagement20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/09\/25\/itmanagement20\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Management Podcast #20 &#8211; myCMDB, When Not to Virtualize, Project Management, IBM Cloud Update, PacketTrap Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/2834205461\/\" title=\"Stuffed Underwear at Domy by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3160\/2834205461_0610613206.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Stuffed Underwear at Domy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download the episode directly <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/itmanagement020.mp3\">right here<\/a>, or subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ITManagementGuys\">the feed<\/a> in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically.<\/p>\n<p>This week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmwillis.com\">John<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleoverprocess.com\">I<\/a> return to our laxidasical agenda, covering a disparate range of topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I start out asking John about The IT Skeptic&#8217;s recent book and new website, since John mentioned it to me the other day.\n  <\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/managedobjects.com\/products\/mycmdb.stml\">myCMDB<\/a> screencast I recorded this week leads us to start talking about CMDBs in general. Keep your eyes peels for that screencast here soon.<\/li>\n<li>Having met with a local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planview.com\/\">Planview<\/a>-ite, I talk about project and portfolio management in IT Management; namely, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itskeptic.org\/why-project-management-almost-invisible-itil-v3\">that it ain&#8217;t too sexy in IT Management<\/a> but sure seems valuable as far as tracking cash. Also, this reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/columnists\/2008\/070708-emamgmt.html\">BMC&#8217;s recent ITM buy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>John asks me my opinion of when you should and shouldn&#8217;t virtualize, which launches me off into a long soliloquy on the topic. The primary suggestion is for IT departments to focus on operation efficiencies over anything else: vendors are going to figure out how to make the same amount, if not more, money, so cost savings will be temporary from that front &#8211; don&#8217;t fall into Moore&#8217;s Law fantasy on that front. The real benefits have to come from people saving time and being more effective.<\/li>\n<li>Having attended the IBM zSummit analyst event, I give a short update on how IBM is talking about it&#8217;s cloud engagements. John and I still agree that IBM needs a cloud <i>product<\/i>, but from my perspective they&#8217;ve improved greatly since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mama_Said_Knock_You_Out_(song)\">&#8220;don&#8217;t call it a come-back, I&#8217;ve been here for years&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/05\/27\/ibm-tivoli-pulse-wrap-up-product-updates-green-metrics-and-cloud-confusion\/\">messaging at Pulse<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I give my brief take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.packettrap.com\/\">PacketTrap<\/a>&#8216;s newly released <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/enterprisealley\/?p=262\">Perspective<\/a> product: what I call a &#8220;general IT Management Platform,&#8221; something that monitors and manages anything with an IP address, including applications and middleware.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, there&#8217;s of course more, including an opening discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubfunkeys.com\/index.html\">U.B. Funkeys<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/kidrobot.com\/\">kidrobot<\/a> figurines at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domystore.com\/austin\/atx_index.html\">Austin branch of the hipster bookstore Domy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, check out the sponsor for this episode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ITKnowledgeExchange.com\">ITKnowledgeExchange.com<\/a>, engage in a community of IT peers like yourself, asking and answering their toughest IT questions. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ITKnowledgeExchange.com\">ITKnowledgeExchange.com<\/a> today.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Managed Objects, BMC, and IBM are clients. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/clients\/\">the RedMonk client list<\/a> for other clients mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the episode directly right here, or subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically. This week John and I return to our laxidasical agenda, covering a disparate range of topics: I start out asking John about The IT Skeptic&#8217;s recent book and new website, since John mentioned it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-itmanagementguys","category-systems-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}