Links for August 6th through August 7th
- Amazon vs. Rackspace vs. Flexiscale
Testing I/O and usability of three cloud providers.
- Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: Reboot 11 – The Next Ten Years by Bruce Sterling
- Automation – How Vendors Use this Buzzword » Chris Boos on Automation
- Zenoss Community Posts 100th ZenPack | Zenoss Blog
- A Quarter Million Developers Worldwide Utilize Genuitec's Pulse
Genuitec "announced that its Pulse software delivery system has become widely adopted by the world's largest technology vendors as a means to deliver software internally and to their end-users. Pulse Private Label is Genuitec's most advanced delivery software that provides enterprises with a complete software management solution. Pulse Private Label can deliver everything from custom tool stacks with full catalog control to complete end-user application distribution and is scalable from a few team members to over a million. Providing the enterprise with unmatched visibility, IT management has complete control over what software is being used, how it is used, who is using it and how everything is updated and maintained. Pulse allows for customizable corporate branding and messaging as well."
- PDF Most Common File Type in Targeted Attacks – F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab
- Novell, CA Push to Secure Identity, Security in Cloud
Rut-ro! Looks like Conformity has some (validating their market, at least) competition: "Last week at The Burton Group's Catalyst Conference, Novell demonstrated a pre-release version of its Cloud Security Service, designed to synchronize login and authentication data between external clouds and internal systems without exposing internal security data. At the same conference, CA demonstrated a product called Federation Manager, designed to provide single sign-on across several internal and external cloud or SaaS applications."
- Microsoft's Azure moving out of Washington | Cloud Computing – InfoWorld
It's like the real-estate "cat and mouse" games big box stores play.
- TexasLinuxFest | Google Groups
Some folks trying to startup a Linux conference in town. Want to get involved, sponsor, all that?
- Y Combinator company hosting choices
Pretty narrow data-set – Y Combinator is definitely a cult/culture – but fun nonetheless.
- SPSS Is Not the Story; IBM's Vision for Analytics Is | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog
- The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone
- 'Culture' Biggest Hurdle To Cloud Computing — Cloud Computing — InformationWeek
- [Oracle's] Architectural Strategies for Cloud Computing [PDF]
An Oracle whitepaper on cloud architecture.
- The Tyranny of Process Worship Within IT
"So large-scale process change efforts are undertaken, meetings are held and PowerPoints are created. In the end, success may be defined as making a few tweaks around the edges, with a new layer of process added on to the existing set. Management may then move on to the next project, while the staff tasked with implementation of these new processes shrugs and goes back to work." Never sure what to make of the "hire smart/good" people argument for IT process improvement. I don't think there's enough of them, so what does "everyone else" do for lack of enough brilliant, highly motivated employees in IT?
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