IT management and Cloud: now some products (2)
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Many of us have been thinking (a bit) and talking (a lot) about the relationship between Clouds and good old IT management. John understands both sides and produced a few good posts (like this one). Maybe it’s just a coincidence that both Hyperic and CA recently made such announcements. In any case, it gives the impression that time has come for some actual product capabilities in the area of managing Cloud-based systems. I haven’t investigated ...
BPM origami (1)
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Tom Baeyens (leader of JBoss jBPM) recently wrote a DZone article titled “Seven Forms of Business Process Management With JBoss jBPM”. It’s an interesting article. It does a good job of illustrating the difference between using BPM tools to capture/communicate business intent versus using them to implement asynchronous interactions, especially with Web services. While it is very much worth reading, the article is not a good reference document for defining/explaining BPM, because it is much ...
First in-depth look at Microsoft’s Oslo and the “M” modeling language (3)
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Microsoft’s PDC is taking place this week and more details were shared with the attendees about project Oslo, an effort announced last year to drastically improve the use of models across the application lifecycle. Some code is available (I think the Quadrant code is only for PDC attendees but the Oslo SDK is available to everyone). I am not at PDC, I didn’t see any presentation and I didn’t download any code. But Microsoft has ...
CMDBf work in progress (1)
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The DMTF CMDBf working group (of which I am part) has released a work in progress version of the CMDBf specification. The changes from the submitted version are minor. It’s mostly a move to the DMTF template. More important (but not drastic) changes should appear in the next release.
Dear Microsoft, here is my $0.25 Windows license fee for the month (1)
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Pricing is now available for Windows instances on Amazon EC2. More than the technical availability of Windows AMIs, the fact that you get pay your Windows license fee based on usage is a major change. This is where Microsoft’s announcement goes beyond Oracle’s EC2 announcement at Oracle Open World. But why stop at EC2 instances? If I can do it there, why can’t I do it at home? Considering how rarely my home desktop is ...
State modeling: party over, go home now. (1)
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Is the Northwest weather softening Savas? Is it the food? I just read the “how do I model state? let me count the ways” article that he, Ian Foster, Paul Watson and Mark McKeown published in the September 2008 Communications of the ACM. In the article, the authors attempt to recap (and advance?) the 5 years-old debate between the WSRF, HTTP-only and “no convention” (e.g. Zen-SOAP as used in CMIS) approaches to interacting with stateful ...
Oracle is now a leading vendor of application testing tools (1)
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The e-TEST suite (previously from Empirix) has turned into a set of Oracle products for application testing (sorry, application quality management). Ever since the announcement of the deal, a couple of months ago, Oracle sales reps have received many unsolicited requests for that product, validating its good reputation in the market. If you have spent any time around sales reps, you know that for them to tell their customers that for the time being they ...
