The week after Thanksgiving brings a nice mix of good old fashioned IT Management and cloud computing news: Amazon has two updates, one of which John is very excited about, Tivoli Monitoring expands into the cloud, and John posits the myth of auto-scaling.
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Show notes:
- Thanksgiving food – John eats Tofurky, Ginger in Sweet Potatoes is delicious.
- Amazon’s announcements: (1.) adding more regions, for edge/CDN stuff, disaster recovery, or even regional policy and tax “optimization.” (2.) allow you to boot from elastic block storage – a virtual SAN, so you can keep state.
- Sonoa virtual appliance for the mobile cloud, Mobile App Accelerator, and the wider trend of “cloud appliances.”
- John explores the myth of auto-scaling in the cloud. He can’t find anyone out there with a nice turn-key, open source (or otherwise) auto-scaling solution here. The good news is, “pool party is freaking cool as it gets.”
- We go over anecdotal explanations of cloud computing we’ve been giving “civilians.” And, John still loves the Pool Party.
- Tivoli in the Amazon cloud (more from developerWorks) – AMIs ready to go for monitoring. Also, Muglia speaks to System Center for the Cloud.
- Network World’s 10 IT startups to watch – we talk about Conformity and identity management in general; John’s not a fan of the Rivermuse addition.<
- Flightcaster – some clojure open source stuff.
- Submit proposals to Velocity 2010 now! John says most any IT person should attend: there’s plenty of “the future of IT” stuff evolving here. Also, there’ll probably be a devops days during this.
Also, some IT Management & cloud items we didn’t manage to get to in this episode:
- GroundWork virtual appliance.
- CA updates systems management portfolio.
- New ControlTier release.
- Red Hat virtualization management.
- Azure now has Rails, has PHP, and .Net
- Hey, how ’bout that Azure in general? See the Mary Jo round-up. Also, Gordon Haff likes the PaaS now.
- You totally want to become a fan of RedMonk in Facebook!
- Thanks to Sean for the nice review of the podcast!
Disclosure: IBM is a client, as are Microsoft, GroundWork Open Source, and others mentioned: see the RedMonk client list.
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