{"id":1693,"date":"2008-10-06T19:08:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/10\/06\/debriefing005\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T00:08:24","slug":"debriefing005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/10\/06\/debriefing005\/","title":{"rendered":"Debriefing &#8211; Windows in the Clouds, Spring dm Server, Blue Cloud, Splunk Customer Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/90557979@N00\/2733909083\/\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3046\/2733909083_dc0c93e234.jpg?v=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s debriefing (<a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/debriefing005.mp3\">download directly here<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/RedmonkRadio\">subscribe to the feed<\/a> for podcast download) catches up on the debriefing items from the past few (work) days. My excuse: I was busy at the Adobe MAX judging event in San Jose last week.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the items covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone has Windows in the cloud: <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.typepad.com\/aws\/2008\/10\/coming-soon-ama.html\">Amazon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/10\/02\/Microsoft_will_float_cloud_OS_this_month_1.html\">Microsoft<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/10\/03\/applogic_does_windows\/\">3Tera<\/a>. As I&#8217;ve said before, the short-term deployments to look for are Exchange and SharePoint instance.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/10\/01\/SpringSource-offers-Java-app-server_1.html\">Spring Source released dm Server<\/a>, their application server based on OSGi. I mentioned the general desire for application server simplicity last week, and here&#8217;s the release.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.dzone.com\/articles\/rip%E2%80%A6jdk-14\">Alex Miller noted that JDK 1.4 is End-of-Lifing<\/a> (EOL), which makes me wistful for the good old days being exciting about regex in Java and JMX. (Or maybe that was in 1.3?) Also, be sure to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/theplanetarium\/\">Danny Coward&#8217;s The Planetarium<\/a>, a nice, short wrap-up of daily Java news.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/10\/01\/Free_version_of_HyperV_now_available_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/10\/01\/Free_version_of_HyperV_now_available_1.html\">the free version of it&#8217;s virtualization engine, Hyper-V<\/a> last week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/servers\/hyper-v-server\/default.mspx\">It&#8217;s free!<\/a> Related, but not mentioned, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/10\/01\/ibm_windc_x64\/\">IBM&#8217;s all you can eat guest-instance Blade release from last week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This reminds me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualization.info\/2008\/10\/press-suddenly-cautious-about.html\">a post on virtualization.info about the gloom and doom tone-change in virtualization coverage of late<\/a>. No longer is virtualization the cure to polio, but it causes problems that need more software to help out &#8211; virtualization management! While I agree with this general sentiment, it&#8217;s also clear that  &#8220;create a mess, sell cleaning up the mess&#8221; marketing messaging of IT management companies is working. Congrats to them!<\/li>\n<li>Next, I mention IBM&#8217;s cloud announcements today, mostly centered around Blue Cloud (the SaaS-offered document\/IM collaborative site) but also nuance on their partner programs. (<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/06\/ibm-releases-bluehouse-for-workplace-collaboration\/\">Ashlee Vance<\/a> and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/10\/06\/ibm_cloud_service\/\">old friends at <i>The Register<\/i>&gt; have good write-ups.)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Pulling from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splunk.com\/company\/2671\">a recent press release from Splunk<\/a>, I note that Splunk now says it has 750 customers, with 60 in EMEA. Also, I point out how weird it is that &#8220;EMEA&#8221; is considered a single marketing entity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/10\/06\/CA_to_unveil_datacenter_automation_package_1.html?source=rss&amp;url=http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/article\/08\/10\/06\/CA_to_unveil_datacenter_automation_package_1.html\">CA launched an automation, of DCA strategy\/product this week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, I point out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/shared\/06055102953876110881\">I&#8217;ve been sharing a lot of things in Google Reader<\/a>, in addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/bushwald\/\">del.icio.us bookmarks<\/a>. So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/shared\/06055102953876110881\">check out that page\/feed if you like links<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And then, finally, <em>finally<\/em>, we hear the rest of the little talk I had with <a href=\"http:\/\/leastresistance.wordpress.com\/\">Matt Ray<\/a>, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenoss.com\/\">Zenoss<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2008\/09\/30\/debriefing004\/\">last week<\/a>. This time, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scipy.org\/TXUncon2008\">the python unconference<\/a> he went to last weekend and the python scene in Austin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> IBM, Microsoft, BMC, Zenoss, Splunk, SpringSource, and Sun 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>Today&#8217;s debriefing (download directly here or subscribe to the feed for podcast download) catches up on the debriefing items from the past few (work) days. My excuse: I was busy at the Adobe MAX judging event in San Jose last week. Here are the items covered: Everyone has Windows in the cloud: Amazon, Microsoft, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,42,12,17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-debriefing","category-enterprise-software","category-marketing","category-systems-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}