{"id":2721,"date":"2009-05-07T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T23:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/05\/07\/itmanagementpodcast042\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T18:48:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T23:48:38","slug":"itmanagementpodcast042","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/05\/07\/itmanagementpodcast042\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Management &amp; Cloud Podcast #42 &#8211; Good Old Fashioned IT Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b> I had the filename all whacky but have fixed this now. The podcast download was working, but the direct link and player below were broken. Everything works now. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/itmanagement043.mp3\">the episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/3508480270\/\" title=\"&quot;A Little Magic in Little Foil Packets&quot; by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3376\/3508480270_b845017747.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"&quot;A Little Magic in Little Foil Packets&quot;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download the episode directly <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/itmanagement043.mp3\">right here<\/a>, subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ITManagementGuys\">the feed<\/a> in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"embed\">\n<p>This week, traditional IT Management seems to dominate our discussion, which is kind of refreshing for how much glad talk we&#8217;ve been doing of late. We discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2009\/05\/01\/south-park-meets-websphere-at-ibms-impact2009\/\">IBM Impact<\/a> has been going on this week in Las Vegas. After explaining what that is and skirting around our light coverage of it (neither of us was there, though RedMonker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/\">James Governor<\/a> has been there all week) we discuss how IBM acquisitions have been generalizing the conferences. This also leads us into a discussion about conferences in general I&#8217;ve been having a lot recently: large vendors are looking to get into doing more, smaller conferences. John reports on hearing about how the crowds went wild at the prospect of <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/New-IBM-Appliance-Delivers-prnews-15090286.html?.v=1\">&#8220;never having to install WebSphere again.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Enterprise&#8221; means (a.) complexity and high performance, but also, (b.) accepting and dealing with old stuff, legacy.<\/li>\n<li>This gets us into talk of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Disruptive_technology\">disruption<\/a> &#8211; Kindle driving more book sales &#8211; but can tech companies defend against tech disruption.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icinga.org\/features\/\">Nagios forked<\/a> to ICINGA. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundworkopensource.com\/blog\/?p=136\">GroundWork&#8217;s take<\/a>, and the Open Sourcers&#8217; Dilemma.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperic.com\/springsource\/\">SpringSource buys Hyperic<\/a> &#8211; John and I go in-depth, covering who SpringSource is and the happy-path for IT department shopping at SpringSource + Covalent + Hyperic. The general up-shot between the two of us is pretty positive, actually. Cot&eacute; is wrangle up some scheduling to talk with SpringSource, so perhaps there&#8217;ll be an update\/clarification.<\/li>\n<li>Citrix Synergy was also this week in Las Vegas &#8211; there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citrix.com\/lang\/English\/lp\/lp_1690137.asp\">a helpful links wrap-up page from them<\/a>. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citrix.com\/English\/NE\/news\/news.asp?newsID=1690155\">Dazzle<\/a> cloud service-catalog (as we understand it) looks interesting. Also, on the cloud front, it sounds like they&#8217;re adding Application Virtualization into their cloud bucket, C3.<\/li>\n<li>Cot&eacute; is a judge for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcloudapp.com\/index.html\">Microsoft Azure contest<\/a>, which should be fun for seeing the types of applications people will be building on Microsoft&#8217;s PaaS. Also, see <a href=\"http:\/\/reddevnews.com\/blogs\/weblog.aspx?blog=3885\">Jeffrey Schwartz&#8217;s story on the topic<\/a>. (For more on Azure, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/tag\/mix09\/\">the interviews from MIX09<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>John re-caps what he&#8217;s heard about the Federal Summit on Cloud &#8211; he strongly recommends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elasticvapor.com\/2009\/05\/us-federal-government-defines-cloud.html\">Ruv&#8217;s write-up<\/a>. As <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ruv\/status\/1727378982\">he said over in Twitter<\/a>, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe how high a priority cloud computing is for the new IT agenda in Washington. The fact there is a Cloud Czar says it all.&#8221; Of note is that the (US) government now has a definition of for &#8220;cloud computing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapinsystems.com\/home\">Tap In Systems<\/a> &#8211; we&#8217;ve both been hearing about this outfit. RedMonk&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/\">Stephen O&#8217;Grady<\/a> is setting up a briefing with them, so perhaps we&#8217;ll have more to report next time.<\/li>\n<li>Conformity &#8211; identity life-cycle management for SaaS applications &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/conformity-inc.com\/solution.shtm\">more details here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/group\/show\/321-spiceworks-4-0\">Spiceworks 4.0<\/a> &#8211; in alpha now, very interesting: help desk, portal, network map.<\/li>\n<li>John notices <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13505_3-10235844-16.html\">an ousting at SugarCRM, of John Roberts<\/a> &#8211; I get John to explain what SugarCRM does.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emediawire.com\/releases\/Phurnace\/onramp\/prweb2389914.htm\">Phurnace migrations<\/a> &#8211; this gets us to talking about IBM in Amazon EC2. John likes the pay-as-you go pricing that&#8217;s relatively new.<\/li>\n<li>We recap <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2009\/05\/01\/ivorytower-clouds\/\">the (in)famous McKinsey cloud report<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interop.com\/lasvegas\/conference\/cloud-computing.php\">John will be at Interop<\/a> &#8211; embracing the cloud, cloud summit session. May 19th and 20th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> IBM, Microsoft, Spiceworks, Hyperic, SpringSource, and GroundWorks are clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: I had the filename all whacky but have fixed this now. The podcast download was working, but the direct link and player below were broken. Everything works now. Here&#8217;s the episode. 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