Coté's People Over Process

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John and I caught up earlier in the week. Despite it being a short time between this episode and the last, we found plenty to talk about:

• Man! It’s hotinhur!
• John’s Cloud Week videos – John Adams from Twitter, Chris Wensel on Cascading, ControlTier.
• The “science” meme at Velocity – R, Mathmatica, and doing stats. Coté also remembers that Sara Dornsife now works for the R company, and the Zed Shaw talk that included R. I ask John what you’d use this stat stuff for, obviously charting historic data, but also doing predicting.
• Chef vs. Puppet – also cfengine is mentioned in this context. What other “alliances” does OpsCode have around Chef? EngineYard, (maybe, if John remembers) RightScale. Also, they got $2.5M in funding (we mistakenly remember $5M).
• Eucalyptus – talking through their layered up, (seemingly) “swappable” cloud platform and how they’re thinking of making money off it.
• IBM CloudBurst demo (this one, or this one, or another one? – how was that? John likes the Service Management hook-in, self-service portal.
• Is “private cloud” slowing down “cloud computing.” And getting at traditional IT shops “hav[ing] that ability to, kind of, ‘API’ themselves.”
• Are SLAs and KPIs calling out for “better” operational stuff in IT like private cloud?
• This gets us into webappVM – deep instrumentation; “webappVM is building a self-monitoring application cloud for web applications, bringing enterprise-level application management capabilities to public and private clouds” from their site.
• FiveRuns Dash – generic-ish, Web 2.0 style metrics. This gets us onto FiveRuns memories. Also, former FiveRuns CEO OT is now at Zenoss as their CMO.
• Google Ops Head goes after blood at Structure 09, .Net at MySpace
• Kuleto’s review
• John [was] helping run CloudCampColumbus this week. He’s trying to get some Tivoli folk out there.
• Coté interested in pictures and anecdotes of Detroit. [We'll see if John snatches some... Yup, he did.]
• I mention that I’m thinking of strumming up interest in barcampESM II (see the first for reference) – is there enough interest for that kind of thing this year? Also, I’m lazy.

Disclosure: Reductive Labs (Puppet), IBM, and Zenoss are client.

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