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- August 19th, 2008
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I went to a blog and a hockey game broke out.
I am a huge fan of comments in blogs. If you are too, then this one is a doozie. Barry Lynn CEO of 3Tera is really funny guy. Oh yea and he has a pretty cool product. Comments
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ELASTRA Delivers Support for Open Source Eucalyptus Platform
ELASTRA Delivers Cloud Portability With Support for Open Source Eucalyptus Platform
- August 18th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Big IT service deals go east, threatening IBM
Big IT service deals go east, threatening IBM, Accenture and EDS Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro Technologies are Likely to become the next generation of IT service megavendors, according to Gartner.
- August 13th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
- August 7th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
IBM to open Amazon EC2-style cloud service
IBM to open Amazon EC2-style cloud service IBM Fellow for Server Design, Jim Rymarczyk, told iTnews that Big Blue is getting so much interest in cloud computing services from customers that it is looking to take its Research Compute Cloud public to m
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
IT Management Podcast #17
IT Management Podcast #17 - Agent Builder/ACE, iPhone Telneting, iLog, RiverMuse, Cloud Hype Explosion, and Thin Desktops
- August 5th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
AT&T follows Google and IBM, unveils ‘cloud computing’
AT&T follows Google and IBM, unveils ‘cloud computing’
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ELASTRA Closes $12 Million In Series B Financing
Press Release Amazon is one of the investors… Financial Backing from Amazon.com, Bay Partners and Hummer Winblad Solidifies Elastra’s Position as a Leading Provider of Application Management Software for Public and Private Compute Clouds
- August 1st, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
IT Skeptic Calls Out BMC!
Crap Factoid Alert: CMDB savings of more than $1 million per year This is a CATEGORY 1 Crap Factoid alert from Chokey the Chimp at the IT Skeptic’s Crap Factoid Warning Service. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Be on EXTREME danger alert for CF “CMD
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OLAP Cube as a Mind Map
OLAP Cube as a Mind Map Make sure you check out this freemind example at the end of the blog post it’s really cool.
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Vertica for the Cloud
Vertica on Amazon’s Cloud Vertica Analytic Database for the Cloud is a new, on-demand version of Vertica’s blazingly fast, grid-enabled columnar database hosted on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. The pay-as-you-go offering enables companies
- July 31st, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Then There Were Two!
GroundWork heading the same path as Qlusters ? I was starting to think I was the only one asking this question.
- July 30th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
BitRock and RightScale Partner
BitRock and RightScale Enable Application Deployment on Amazon’s EC2 Looks like Rightscale is becoming the on-ramp to EC2…
- July 29th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
My Wife’s Brother’s Wife’s Sister’s Husband
Over the summer I had the honer of becoming a godfather to my brother-in-law’s daughter. The godmother’s husband was a brilliant young man named Chris Heald. Chris is the founder of a new twitter like startup called blippr.com.
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Cuil is not as Cool as Google
Some ex Google’rs have started a new search engine called cuil.com. A quick search, sorry for my vanity, of “john willis” does not render my ESM blog on “cuil”. However, those cool dudes at google.com have me as th
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
- July 27th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Cloud Cafe Podcast #11
This podcast is with Jon Travis of Hyperic. Our main focus is on cloudstatus.com. The podcast was a little bit rough around the edges but in the end we got her done. I think on some questions Jon and I were not connecting however in the end I l
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Great Randy Pausch Quotes
I have been a huge fan of the remarkable Randy Pausch for a while now. I held off reading his book because I thought I knew the whole story already. Friday as sort of a tribute to his family I purchased the book and read it on my plane ride back fr
- July 25th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
These Boys Know How to Have Fun!
Google App Engine PyAtl Hackathon BUILD a speaker registration system, we can use to book speakers for PyATL, on GAE. The goal is to not leave until we have something useable, so if you feel like getting in on a fun community project this is your c
- July 24th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Teach your parents well
Duke University ran a workshop this month teaching Alice to 33 North Carolina teachers and 32 students . Alice is a wonderful tool that teaches young adults advanced computer programming concepts through animation and video game creation. Both my
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Making Hadoop More Modular
Pluggable Hadoop I especially like the discussion about instrumentation. Hadoop currently has a metrics API that proves disk stats like diskused and disk busy. More metrics and instrumentation for IT management would be a really cool thing.
- July 23rd, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
VMware Counters Microsoft, Will Make ESXi Hypervisor Free
VMware Counters Microsoft, Will Make ESXi Hypervisor Free
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Build a RESTful Web service
An introduction to REST and the Restlet framework A good tutorial on REST over at DeveloperWorks. You will have to register with an IBM account; however, it is a fairly painless process.
- July 22nd, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Will OpenNMS v Netcool be the Getteysburg
During a recent IT Management podcast, Tarus Balog of OpenNMS was making some bold statements about OpenNMS against the IBM Netcool network management products (formally Micromuse’s Precision). Tarus claimed that in the Telco industry OpenNM
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Rightscale making all the “Right” moves…
That was awful… However, they are making some really good partnerships. … Rightscale Partners with EnterpriseDB for Powerful Cloud Management and Open Source Database for the Enterprise
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Cloud Cafe - Sweet 10
Cloud Cafe is a series of podcasts with people deeply interested in cloud and utility computing. Cloud Cafe Podcast #1- Cassatt In this podcast. James Urquhart of Cassatt and I discuss the differences between some of the cloudy terminology of ̶
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Cloud Cafe Podcast #9 - Enomaly
This is another great podcast. I had the opportunity to have a discussion with Reuven Cohen the founder Enomaly. Reuven is one of the rock stars of the “cloud” discussion. We really beat the bushes on all topics cloud on this podcast.
- July 21st, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Thinking Out Loud - How will seat pricing work in the cloud?
In a recent IT Management podcast I asked Tarus Balog of OpenNMS if he though his support only model (no software sales) would give him an advantage over his competitors. Unfortunately, he didn’t really respond to my question as Tarus is not a
- July 19th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Zenny the Zebra and the Future of IT Mangagement
The Zenoss boys never miss a beat when it comes to recruiting Zenpack contributors. Sorry Matt he is way to young to work on Zenpacks. However, he has written his first “Hello World” in python on his OLPC. Both boys love the Zenny
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Cloud Cafe Podcast #10 - Flexiscale
This is a great podcast. I had the opportunity to have a discussion with Tony Lucus the founder Flexiscale. Some people refer to Flexiscale as the Amazon AWS of EMEA. We were able to discuss a vast array of cloud topics as follows: The history of
- July 18th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
The Laughing Boardroom - IBM eServer iSeries
I am not a huge fan of the IBM iSeries or what used to called an AS/400; however, this video below really hit home when thinking about a utility company I worked with last year. The video describes what this utility company should have done last yea
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IT Management Podcast #016
“She’s using the router to dry her clothes” - OpenNMS’s Tarus Balog “Everything on the other side of the keyboard is Network Management.” Tarus Balog
- July 17th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Moodle on Amazon Web Services
Digital Chalk recently announced integration of Moodle with AWS. Moodle is an open source Learning Management System (LMS) that is registered with almost 40,000 sites and has over 15 million users. Many Universities currently use Moodle as the
- July 16th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
White Paper on ‘Cloud Architectures’ S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS
White Paper on ‘Cloud Architectures’ and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS Very cool!
- July 15th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Cloud Cafe Podcast #8
In this podcast I was able to speak to another customer of the “cloud”. Brad Jefferson the CEO of Animoto shares some of his experiences and thoughts about the cloud. Animoto uses Rightscale as their cloud infrastructure partner. Brad disc
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
TIOBE Programming Community Index for July 2008
The TIOBE programming language rankings is out again. Python seems to keeps inching up. However, the big story is Microsoft’s Powershell. Powershell wasn’t even ranked in the previous year now it is 15. Also Lua and D are interest
- July 14th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Not Your Momma’s Core - IBM Power 7 Chip
The Register reports that IBM will ship a Power7 chip that clocks at 4.0GHz in 2010. Here is a list of some of the goodies… Eight-cores arranged in dual-chip module 16-cores per module 32 gigaflops per core 256 gigaflops per chip Four dual-c
- July 13th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Top 10 Enterprises in the Cloud
I decided to put together a list of 10 examples of entpereises using the clouds. The NY Times Amazon EC2 Nasdaq Amazon S3 Major League Baseball Joyent ESPN Rightscale using Amazon EC2 Hasbro Amazon EC2 British Telecom 3Tera Taylor Woodrow Google App
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RumorMill: Microsoft to Rollout EC2 for Windows
RumorMill: Microsoft to Rollout EC2 for Windows in October 2008 …
- July 12th, 2008
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Botchanmics: The Dimmer Switch
We were able to catch up with Botchagalupe, the international IT man of mystery, and pin him down long enouth to get his thoughts about whats going in IT. Johnmwillis: Hello, Botchagalupe, its good to have you back again. Botchagalupe: Yea, yeah, su
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Dumb “Corporate” Criminals
We have all seen the clips on TV about dumb criminals. The guy who tries to rob a bank using the drive through window. How about the guys that try to rob a video camera store that has live cameras from every conceivable angle. There were two teen
- July 11th, 2008
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botchagalupe has posted a new entry on: John M Willis Enterprise Systems Management Blog
Elasticfox vs Jollat
I noticed a new AWS tool for managing EC2 and S3 on the AWS blog called Jollat. I did a quick analysis of the differences between Jollat and ElasticFox and here is a quick list of the plus and minus’ of Jollat: Plus: Nice filtering feature