{"id":3453,"date":"2009-11-13T16:59:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T21:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/11\/13\/itmanagement058\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T21:59:33","slug":"itmanagement058","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/11\/13\/itmanagement058\/","title":{"rendered":"Traveling John &#8211; IT Management #58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/4087366937\/\" title=\"A touch of class by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2637\/4087366937_a01effd0a8.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"A touch of class\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmwillis.com\/\">John<\/a> and I go over recent conferences and cloud related talks John has had, along with the firming up of &#8220;Agile Infrastructure&#8221; which is, really, the marrying of development and operations glued together with cloud technology. Full show notes below.<\/p>\n<p>Download the episode directly <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/itmanagement058.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>Show notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danslenoir.com\/london\/index.php\">London place where you eat in the dark<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.canonical.com\/?p=268\">Canonical Cloud road-show in London<\/a> &#8211; around 40 people &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/\">James Governor<\/a> did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2009\/11\/13\/linux-and-the-enterprise-cloud-a-canonical-gig\/\">a keynote on cloud computing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I ask John to profile some of the attendees at the event &#8211; we hear about a podcast fan and their cloud and Big Data desires.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s more instance of &#8220;Agile Infrastructure&#8221; now &#8211; a story of slow bank IT and fore-closers from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brainfinger\">Teyo Tyree<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Oracle, Coherence, OLAP, Monte Carlo stuff?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.devopsdays.org\/\">devopsdays<\/a> &#8211; Agile mixing into infrastructure<\/li>\n<li>John&#8217;s NoSQL East keynote, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmwillis.com\/nosqleast\/nosqleast-09-keynote\/\">see the video<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestandard.com\/news\/2009\/11\/13\/hps-3com-acquisition-inside-look\">HP buying 3Com<\/a> &#8211; the old alliances in systems are scattered with Oracle buying Sun and Cisco expanding outside of packets.<\/li>\n<li>2010 predictions &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2009\/11\/12\/2010-predictions\/\">Stephen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/2009\/11\/03\/whats-in-store-for-2010-9-trends-quick-take\/\">James<\/a> have done theirs, we&#8217;ll have to do ours. Last year&#8217;s whacky predictions guest, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/13\/us\/13sftattoo.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Dave Rosenberg, in the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manageengine.com\/\">ManageEngine<\/a> &#8211; Firewall, Desktop management, Netflow. Selling into LoB stuff or SMBs. Beta of SaaS monitoring launched in March 2009 and still working out beta stuff.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivermuse.com\/content\/index.php\/2009\/11\/your-it-infrastructure-under-new-management\/\">Rivermuse released<\/a> &#8211; they say it&#8217;s a fresh take on event management.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flapjack-project.com\/\">Flapjack<\/a>! The latest corny named Big Data\/cloud\/etc. project. The new naming trend is to be corny, not drop &#8220;e&#8221; from your name.<\/li>\n<li>John tells the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilt.com\/\">Gilt<\/a> story (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13846_3-10379810-62.html\">here&#8217;s one write-up<\/a>) &#8211; how a shoe brought down ruby. This leads to a wider question of how well the classic rails architecture scales in these instances.<\/li>\n<li>Saving SOA with queues, asynchronous architectures, ESBs, etc. (where &#8220;saving&#8221; means &#8220;scaling&#8221;) &#8211; John seeing some Java stealthily startups here, and hopefully this is a direction VMWare\/SpringSource might be going with all it&#8217;s Java in the cloud business.<\/li>\n<li>For some good, old fashioned IT Management check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsmreview.com\/\">BSMReview.com<\/a>, which is getting around sorting out what BMS, ITIL, and ITSM means, how it might change, etc. in a cloudy world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/d\/cloud-computing\/ibm-announces-new-beta-services-cloud-software-development-147?source=rss_infoworld_news\">Rational&#8217;s beta of cloud delivery services for developers and QA<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>John&#8217;s take on a possible service management renaissance in the cloudy world.<\/li>\n<li>Rackspace Cloud going crazy! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspacecloud.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/cloud-servers-for-windows-beta-coming-in-early-2010\/\">Windows Beta<\/a>, all sorts of customer references.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Canonical, Microsoft, IBM, and HP are clients. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/clients\/\">the RedMonk client list<\/a> for others mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agile Infrastructure, ITSM reborn, corny named Big Data frameworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-itmanagementguys","category-systems-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","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=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}