{"id":2877,"date":"2009-07-02T13:27:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T18:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/07\/02\/itmanagement046\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T18:27:24","slug":"itmanagement046","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/07\/02\/itmanagement046\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Management &amp; Cloud Podcast Episode #46 &#8211; Private Clouds, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"video embed\">\n<p>Download the episode directly <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/itmanagement046.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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmwillis.com\/\">John<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleoverprocess.com\/\">I<\/a> caught up earlier in the week. Despite it being a short time between this episode and the last, we found plenty to talk about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Man! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/weather\/entries\/2009\/06\/23\/keeping_up_with.html\">It&#8217;s hotinhur<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>John&#8217;s Cloud Week videos &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmwillis.com\/nagios\/veloicty-09-john-adams-ops-engineer-at-twitter\/\">John Adams from Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmwillis.com\/hadoop\/veloicty-09-chris-wensel-on-cascading\/\">Chris Wensel on Cascading<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmwillis.com\/controltier\/veloicty-09-controltier\/\">ControlTier<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;science&#8221; meme at Velocity &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\">R<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/products\/mathematica\/index.html\">Mathmatica<\/a>, and doing stats. Cot&eacute; also remembers that <a href=\"http:\/\/saradornsife.wordpress.com\/\">Sara Dornsife<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SaraD\/status\/2282036599\">now works for the R company<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.lonestarrubyconf.com\/Zed%27s-Keynote\">the Zed Shaw talk that included R<\/a>. I ask John what you&#8217;d use this stat stuff for, obviously charting historic data, but also doing predicting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.opscode.com\/display\/chef\/Home\">Chef<\/a> vs. <a href=\"http:\/\/reductivelabs.com\/products\/puppet\/\">Puppet<\/a> &#8211; also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfengine.org\/\">cfengine<\/a> is mentioned in this context. What other &#8220;alliances&#8221; does OpsCode have around Chef? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineyard.com\/\">EngineYard<\/a>, (maybe, if John remembers) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightscale.com\/\">RightScale<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/24\/opscode-gets-25m-to-automate-the-cloud\/\">they got $2.5M in funding<\/a> (we mistakenly remember $5M).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eucalyptus.com\/\">Eucalyptus<\/a> &#8211; talking through their layered up, (seemingly) &#8220;swappable&#8221; cloud platform and how they&#8217;re thinking of making money off it.<\/li>\n<li>IBM CloudBurst demo (<a href=\"http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/tivoli\/library\/demos\/cloud-burst-technical.html\">this one<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/software\/tivoli\/library\/demos\/cloud-burst.html\">this one<\/a>, or another one? &#8211; how was that? John likes the Service Management hook-in, self-service portal.<\/li>\n<li>Is &#8220;private cloud&#8221; slowing down &#8220;cloud computing.&#8221; And getting at traditional IT shops &#8220;hav[ing] that ability to, kind of, &#8216;API&#8217; themselves.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Are SLAs and KPIs calling out for &#8220;better&#8221; operational stuff in IT like private cloud?<\/li>\n<li>This gets us into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/29\/andreessen-backed-startup-targets-cloud\/\">webappVM<\/a> &#8211; deep instrumentation; &#8220;webappVM is building a self-monitoring application cloud for web applications, bringing enterprise-level application management capabilities to public and private clouds&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webappvm.com\/\">from their site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fiveruns.com\/2009\/6\/24\/dash-is-ready-for-public-beta-and-has-a-brand-new-look\">FiveRuns Dash<\/a> &#8211; generic-ish, Web 2.0 style metrics. This gets us onto FiveRuns memories. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenoss.com\/news\/archive\/zenosspressrelease.2009-06-24.0295228125\">former FiveRuns CEO OT is now at Zenoss<\/a> as their CMO.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/06\/27\/google_mocks_microsoft_online_infrastructure\/\">Google Ops Head goes after blood at Structure 09<\/a>, .Net at MySpace<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuletos.com\/\">Kuleto&#8217;s<\/a> review<\/li>\n<li>John [was] helping run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcamp.com\/?page_id=867\">CloudCampColumbus<\/a> this week. He&#8217;s trying to get some Tivoli folk out there.<\/li>\n<li>Cot&eacute; interested in pictures and anecdotes of Detroit. [We&#8217;ll see if John snatches some&#8230; Yup, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/14337355@N07\/sets\/72157620779141741\/\">he did<\/a>.]<\/li>\n<li>I mention that I&#8217;m thinking of strumming up interest in barcampESM II (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barcamp.org\/BarCampESM\">the first<\/a> for reference) &#8211; is there enough interest for that kind of thing this year? Also, I&#8217;m lazy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Reductive Labs (Puppet), IBM, and Zenoss are client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is &#8220;private cloud&#8221; a good idea, and more IT Management news and views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-itmanagementguys","category-open-source"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877","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=2877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}