IT Management and Cloud Blog

BotchagalupeMarks for November 20th - 15:32

John — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

These are my links for November 20th from 15:32 to 17:00:

8 Steps for Well-Grounded Cloud Computing - By now, many of you have been hearing all the grand talk about cloud computing: how it enables companies to get rid of their IT costs and instead pay by the drink for capabilities provided by an outside vendor—who assumes the worries about upgrades, bugs, versioning, provisioning and all that other nasty stuff.
IBM Cloud Guru Erich Clementi Looks Back at IT History to Gauge Its Future - From 2003 through 2005, IBM veteran Erich Clementi helped lead the resurgence of the revamped IBM mainframe as general manager of the System z division. When obituaries were being written about the demise of the mainframe, Clementi and his team went off to rethink and redesign the old-fashioned Big Hunk computer. Now he's leading the all-encompassing cloud computing initiative.
How to measure the impact of IT operations on your business (Part 1) - Blog - dev2ops - Solving Large Scale Web Operations and DevOps Problems - Walk into any web-based business and more likely than not you'll find all sorts of metrics that have been collected with varying levels of accuracy, consistency, and freshness. However, despite what appears to be a wealth of data, no one will seem to be all that happy with it.
Partnership with Rackspace Cloud Computing - In less than two months, we’ve seen strong adoption of Scout’s simple cloud monitoring functionality. 1 of every 5 hosts monitored by Scout is in the cloud.

BotchagalupeMarks for November 19th - 12:20

John — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

These are my links for November 19th from 12:20 to 16:04:

Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting | Writing Code that Scales - The web is huge, and it’s getting bigger every single day. If you’re writing a web scale application that will reach millions of end users, you may need to think carefully about how you write that application so that it will work properly under the demanding workloads the web can produce. Our computing hardware is getting progressively faster and cheaper.
VIDEO: What is VMware vCloud Express? - VIDEO: What is VMware vCloud Express?: What is VMware vCloud Express and how can it help you?
Computer ‘Glitch’ Grounds Air Traffic | Threat Level | Wired.com - An unspecified computer glitch is being cited as the cause for commercial flights being canceled or temporarily delayed on Thursday.

BotchagalupeMarks for November 18th - 11:41

John — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

These are my links for November 18th from 11:41 to 16:35:

6 Months In: Fully Automated Provisioning Revisited - Blog - dev2ops - Solving Large Scale Web Operations and DevOps Problems - It's been about six months since I co-authored the "Web Ops 2.0: Achieving Fully Automated Provisioning" whitepaper along with the good folks at Reductive Labs (the team behind Puppet). While the paper was built on a case study about a joint user of ControlTier and Puppet (and a joint client of my employer, DTO Solutions, and Reductive Labs), the broader goal was to start a discussion around the concept of fully automated provisioning.
Agile Manifesto co-author encourages Agile Operations - Agile Operations - Ward Cunningham, one of the godfathers of the Agile Development movement and the co-author of the Agile Manifesto, is moving over into Agile Operations territory these days with an upcoming webinar, Agile IT: A Better Approach to Application Development, Deployment, and Management. In the precis, the presenter's ask "Can IT Operations benefit from agile practices as well?" Obviously we here at Agile Operations think so, but it will be interesting to see what exactly Cunningham's take on the idea is.
Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!) - O’Reilly Radar - My lunchtime conversations at the Summit centered around Operations as a competitive advantage (and occasionally a "strategic weapon"). This advantage is the ability to consistently create and deploy reliable software to an unreliable platform that scales horizontally.

BotchagalupeMarks for November 17th - 14:15

John — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

These are my links for November 17th through November 18th:

Linux and The Enterprise Cloud: A Canonical Gig - Earlier this week I was lucky enough to present to Canonical customers and prospects about what’s going on with the enterprise Cloud market. I was a little nervous because Simon Wardley was on the same agenda, and his cloud presentation is a masterpiece. Luckily he came after me though.
Recipes for Automated installation of OS and beyond - Up until now, I've described the options to automate shell scripting, virtual machine creation and network provisioning. So now we can actually get started with automating the installation of the Operating System itself. This not surprisingly is were most sysadmins spent most of their time.
Cloudonomics - Jolting Joe. A very smart dude…

BotchagalupeMarks for November 15th - 05:19

John — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

These are my links for November 15th through November 17th:

zaitcev: Raising in rage against Eucalyptus in Fedora - Ouch!
The gluttonous aardvark » Blog Archive » @botchagalupe, @krisbuytaert, me and the Kwak!! - I am a lucky chap.
I received this e-mail on Friday saying that “@botchagalupe is in town, feel like a beer together?”.
NOSQL: scaling to size and scaling to complexity - Emil’s Neo Thoughts - About a week ago, following nosql east in Atlanta, Jonathan Ellis from the Cassandra project published a fantastic overview of the current NOSQL ecosystem. He analyzes 10 popular NOSQL databases along three axes: horizontal scalability, data model and internal persistence design. It's a great read.

DevopsDays 09 Interview with Kris Buytaert

johnwillis — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:53:58 +0000

BotchagalupeMarks for November 13th - 11:23

John — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:02 +0000

These are my links for November 13th from 11:23 to 12:21:

Application Lifecycle in the Cloud - Thinking Out Cloud - Cloud computing is having a profound effect on the software application lifecycle.
www.devco.net - As part of deploying MCollective + ActiveMQ instead of my old Spread based system I need to figure out a multi location setup, the documentation says I'd possible so I thought I better get down and figure it out.
In my case I will have per-country ActiveMQ's, I've had the same with Spread in the past and it's proven reliable enough for my needs, each ActiveMQ will carry 30 or so nodes.
Announcing the Public Terabyte Dataset project « Elastic Web Mining | Bixolabs - This is a high quality crawl of top web sites, using AWS’s Elastic Map Reduce, Concurrent’s Cascading workflow API, and Bixolab’s elastic web mining platform.
Rackspace Cloud Computing & Hosting | NoSQL Ecosystem - Unprecedented data volumes are driving businesses to look at alternatives to the traditional relational database technology that has served us well for over thirty years. Collectively, these alternatives have become known as “NoSQL databases.”

BotchagalupeMarks for November 13th - 03:21

John — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

These are my links for November 13th from 03:21 to 09:40:

dev2ops: delivering application change - The non-functional requirements become late cycle "peek-a-boo" requirements when they aren't addressed early in development. Late cycle requirements violates continuous integration and agile development principles. The production tooling and requirements have to be accounted for in the development environment but most enterprises don't do that.
Amazon Bids For Windows Developers On Eve Of Azure’s Launch - Plug Into The Cloud - InformationWeek - Four days before Microsoft launches its Azure cloud platform to developers at a conference in L.A., Amazon has come up with a .Net software development kit to help Windows developers produce code that runs in Amazon's EC2. It's probably just coincidence. But let's see what they're getting with AWS SDK for .Net.
cloudmapreduce - Project Hosting on Google Code - Cloud MapReduce was developed at Accenture Technology Labs by Huan Liu and Dan Orban. It is a MapReduce implementation on top of the Amazon Cloud OS.

BotchagalupeMarks for November 12th - 14:23

John — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

These are my links for November 12th through November 13th:

blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: Moving to the cloud - Last week we also decommissioned the last of our physical servers. We are now operating our entire website "in the cloud" as the kids would say. Specifically, we are using Amazon Web Services. If all went well, you didn't notice a thing. If you want to, you can Ask me Anything about the move or our servers.
Go2.me - Exhaustive Google Product List - Via Geva Perry
Gartner: Cloud spending to skyrocket in 2009 | Platforms - InfoWorld - Gartner Smartner

NoSQLEast 09 Keynote

johnwillis — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:11:44 +0000

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