IBM says don’t use tape

Site Migration to Mosso Part 2: Why and How

Running your own hardware Vs. EC2 and RightScale This is a great article on the experiences of converting from inhouse to Amazon’s cloud.

BusinessWeek: How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World

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.

VMware Counters Microsoft, Will Make ESXi Hypervisor Free

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.

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 OpenNMS is having some significant success with recent clients like Telecom Italia and Swisscom. I tried to cut Tarus off at the knees a little by asking about possible scalability issues with OpenNMS and Telcos. This is an area where the ...

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 “utility computing” vs “cloud computing”. Also James gives a great overview of Hadoop and CouchDB. The intro music is a compositions called “Clouds” from Mike Colletti and the art work is contributed by Florence Neal ...

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 big fan of the clouds. However, it started me thinking about per seat vendor pricing and the cloud. I started thinking how current vendor pricing is going to translate in highly virtualized ...

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 year when IBM told them they should move from iSeries to pSeries. Basically they should have laughed the IBM pSeries guys out of their boardroom. This regional, rather large, ...

White Paper on ‘Cloud Architectures’ and Best Practices of Amazon S3, EC2, SimpleDB, SQS Very cool!

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-chip modules per 2U (16 * 4) 2U unit will have 64 cores, 128GB of memory, and 2 teraflops One unit will support 1,024 cores, 32 teraflops, and 2TB of memory

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, sure, sure. Johnmwillis: What have you been up to? Botchagalupe: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback. Johnmwillis: The last time you were here you were talking about Botchanomics. ...

Zenoss, rPath join on open source systems management appliances