October 6, 2008 – 11:39 am
Back a the IBM zSummit, James also had the chance to talk with IBM’s John Shedletsky on a wide range of contemporary mainframe topics, primarily, about using the multi-hosting (to put it in “distributed” terms) abilities that mainframes to bring to drive consolidation benefits. The interesting angles here are that John and James get detailed into much of the “mainframes have been doing it for years” talk that’s been going around with the rise of virtualization.
John does a good job of explaining how mainframes have been built, for decades, to be fault-tolerate, scale-up environments. Along they way, he takes the chance to point out similarities to recent efforts like “shipping container computing” and other modern efforts to replicate mainframe functionality.
Disclosure: IBM sponsored this video and is a client.
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October 1, 2008 – 1:23 pm
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This week, John “The Cloud to Everyone’s Silver-lining” Willis and I start out talking about the recent spate of cloud-bashing, from Messieurs Larry and Stallman. Partly in response, I point out a nice piece from Savio Rodrigues in reply to all this trough of disillusionment talk. Bouncing off some Gnip gnews, I ask John about the revenue for things like Amazon EC2: can you really survive off $0.40/month/customer? We also discuss the implications of Windows running in the cloud, on Amazon EC2.
Mid-way through, we’re joined by Zenoss’s Brandon Whichard. We start out discussing the idea of “market-places” that I’ve been seeing getting attention of late (see yesterday’s debriefing that mentioned Zoho marketplace). Brandon points out the common theme here: the return of making money off software.
Having worked with Brandon over the years, I ask him for his take on IT Management (he having departed into Identity Management for 4 years and recently come back). After John asks about the next part of the enterprise stack to be commoditized, we get into a lengthy discussion of reporting in IT Management: it never seems to do perfectly what users want, why is it that?
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Disclosure: Zenoss is a client, as are Microsoft and IBM. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.
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October 1, 2008 – 9:28 am
You’re not likely to see college kids more excited about mainframes than the above two. T-shirt Driven Development at it’s best.
We filmed this while at the 2008 zSummit, where James talked with the Ben Ferenchak and Scott Wetter who’d both been involved in the System z academic initiative.
James starts by asking them how they got interested and involved in working on mainframes, asks how about their general take on System z, and then talks with them about their career thinking and how System z plays into that.
Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.
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September 30, 2008 – 7:22 pm
Today’s debriefing (download here or subscribe to the feed) deals with two Z’s primarily: a brief commentary on ZoHo Marketplace and a short update I recorded with Matt Ray, community manager for Zenoss, an IT Management platform. See the Zenoss 2.2.4 release notes for more details on the release Matt Ray talks about.
I also briefly mention the latest Flash maybe could be on the iPhone news that Ryan and I tragically missed in our RIA Weekly recording today. And, here’s the cloud computing/capacity management article I mention.
Next time, I’ll include the second part of the short discussion I had with Matt Ray: we talk about the python community in Austin.
As an admin note, I’ve included these debriefings in the main RedMonk Radio feed in addition to the PeopleOverProcess.com feed.
Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as is Zenoss.
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