{"id":3615,"date":"2009-12-04T11:13:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T17:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/12\/04\/the-turkey-cloud-it-management-cloud-podcast-60\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T11:13:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T17:13:06","slug":"the-turkey-cloud-it-management-cloud-podcast-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/12\/04\/the-turkey-cloud-it-management-cloud-podcast-60\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turkey Cloud &#8211; IT Management &amp; Cloud Podcast #60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/4137349528\/\" title=\"Thanksgiving desserts by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2587\/4137349528_a492a32d81.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" alt=\"Thanksgiving desserts\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The week after Thanksgiving brings a nice mix of good old fashioned IT Management and cloud computing news: Amazon has two updates, one of which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnmwillis.com\/\">John<\/a> is very excited about, Tivoli Monitoring expands into the cloud, and John posits the myth of auto-scaling.<\/p>\n<p>Download the episode directly <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/itmanagement060_TurkeyCloud.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>Thanksgiving food &#8211; John eats Tofurky, Ginger in Sweet Potatoes is delicious.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon&#8217;s announcements: (1.) adding more regions, for edge\/CDN stuff, disaster recovery, or even regional policy and tax &#8220;optimization.&#8221; (2.) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allthingsdistributed.com\/2009\/12\/amazon_ec2_boot_from_ebs.html\">allow you to boot from elastic block storage<\/a> &#8211; a virtual SAN, so you can keep state.<\/li>\n<li>Sonoa virtual appliance for the mobile cloud, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/12\/03\/sonoa-mobile-app-accelerator\/\">Mobile App Accelerator<\/a>, and the wider trend of &#8220;cloud appliances.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>John explores the myth of auto-scaling in the cloud. He can&#8217;t find anyone out there with a nice turn-key, open source (or otherwise) auto-scaling solution here. The good news is, &#8220;pool party is freaking cool as it gets.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>We go over anecdotal explanations of cloud computing we&#8217;ve been giving &#8220;civilians.&#8221; And, John still loves the <a href=\"http:\/\/auser.github.com\/poolparty\/\">Pool Party<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aws.typepad.com\/aws\/2009\/11\/ibm-tivoli-now-available-on-amazon-ec2.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+AmazonWebServicesBlog+(Amazon+Web+Services+Blog)&amp;utm_content=Gmail\">Tivoli in the Amazon cloud<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/downloads\/tiv\/tivolimonitoring\/faq-ec2-tivolimonitoring.html\">more from developerWorks<\/a>) &#8211; AMIs ready to go for monitoring. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2009\/111809-microsoft-cloud-management.html?fsrc=netflash-rss\">Muglia speaks to System Center for the Cloud<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2009\/113009-it-management-companies-to-watch.html\">Network World&#8217;s 10 IT startups to watch<\/a> &#8211; we talk about Conformity and identity management in general; John&#8217;s not a fan of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rivermuse.com\/content\/\">Rivermuse<\/a> addition.&lt; <\/li>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/measuringmeasures.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/flightcaster-open-sources-crane_03.html\">Flightcaster &#8211; some clojure open source stuff<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Submit proposals to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2009\/11\/23\/velocity-2010\/\">Velocity 2010<\/a> now! John says most any IT person should attend: there&#8217;s plenty of &#8220;the future of IT&#8221; stuff evolving here. Also, there&#8217;ll probably be a devops days during this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, some IT Management &amp; cloud items we didn&#8217;t manage to get to in this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.groundworkopensource.com\/exchange\/flex-quickstart-suse-vm\">GroundWork virtual appliance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/software\/systems_management\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=221400168\">CA updates systems management portfolio<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>New <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.controltier.com\/2009\/11\/controltier-349-released.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Blogcontroltier+%28blog.controltier%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">ControlTier release<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13556_3-10389647-61.html?part=rss&amp;tag=feed&amp;subj=ThePervasiveDataCenter\">Red Hat virtualization management<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=4672\">Azure now has Rails<\/a>, has PHP, and .Net<\/li>\n<li>Hey, how &#8217;bout that Azure in general? See <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=4586\">the Mary Jo round-up<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13556_3-10407607-61.html?part=rss&amp;tag=feed&amp;subj=ThePervasiveDataCenter\">Gordon Haff likes the PaaS<\/a> now.<\/li>\n<li>You totally want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/RedMonk\/21200719072\">become a fan of RedMonk in Facebook<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>Thanks to Sean for <a href=\"http:\/\/dague.net\/2009\/11\/25\/what-im-listening-to\/\">the nice review of the podcast<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> IBM is a client, as are Microsoft, GroundWork Open Source, and others mentioned: see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/clients\/\">the RedMonk client list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has two updates, one of which John is very excited about, Tivoli Monitoring expands into the cloud, and John posits the myth of auto-scaling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44,19,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-itmanagementguys","category-open-source","category-systems-management"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","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=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}