Managed Object‘s Dustin McNabb gives us a short overview of the state of CMDB in Managed Objects view, and then does a quick intro explaining the ideas and goals of myCMDB.

Disclosure: Managed Objects is a client and sponsored this screencast.

Managed Objects' Abbas Haider Ali gives us a demo of myCMDB itself. He first highlights the main page with the tag cloud, communties, and activity stream. Then we get into navigating the relationships between each of the items the CMDB tracks and look over the reporting options that myCMDB provides.

Disclosure: Managed Objects is a client and sponsored this screencast.

Back a the IBM zSummit, James also had the chance to talk with IBM's John Shedletsky on a wide range of contemporary mainframe topics, primarily, about using the multi-hosting (to put it in "distributed" terms) abilities that mainframes to bring to drive consolidation benefits. The interesting angles here are that John and James get detailed into much of the "mainframes have been doing it for years" talk that's been going around with the rise of virtualization.

John does a good job of explaining how mainframes have been built, for decades, to be fault-tolerate, scale-up environments. Along they way, he takes the chance to point out similarities to recent efforts like "shipping container computing" and other modern efforts to replicate mainframe functionality.

In this interview, Carbonetworks President and CEO Michael Meehan, explains how Carbonetworks’ carbon platform application helps companies participate in global carbon markets. Carbonetworks helps companies understand whether their carbon is going to be an asset or liability to them today and in the future as companies roll out their carbon strategies.

While at the 2008 zSummit, James talked with two students who'd been involved in the System z academic initiative: Ben Ferenchak and Scott Wetter. James starts by asking them how they got interested and involved in working on mainframes, asks how about their general take on System z, and then talks with them about their career thinking and how System z plays into that.

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Fujitsu Siemens Computers announced recently that they are trialling shipping monitors from China to Germany via train. This option saves time over shipping by sea and is far more environmentally friendly than air freight. Hans Erbe, Fujitsu Siemens senior director of Logistics, explains the reasons behind this shipment and says that if all goes well, Fujitsu Siemens will use this mode of transport again