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• Im Live-Blogging the Defrag 09 Conference

  
  Tech~Surf~Blog — Authority: 110
  Here I am for my third consecutive year covering the Defrag conference in Denver. What an awesome event!  The cream of the crop in tech -- big thinkers, and lots of the Internets movers-and-shakers and upcoming leaders. As Ive done at two previous conferences this year, Ill be live-blogging the proceedings right ...
  3 days ago

• An SWCSA twitstigation discovers unmatched socks and explores human error

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 423
  Theres nothing quite like repetitive tasks to make the mind go numb and when you are seeing cross-eyed, its easy to make mistakes.  Welcome to the world of laundry and storage provisioning. 3PAR has a new tool, called Autonomic Groups to help with repetitive provisioning tasks.
  3 days ago

• Managers, there are only three answers to employee questions

  
  Cube Rules — Authority: 525
  Managers have a formal way of evaluating an employee’s work — the performance review. Most people working in cubes don’t have the same formal option to evaluate their manager, but that doesn’t mean employees are not rating managers. Employees do that all the time. You can have twenty-seven ways in an article ...
  3 days ago

• Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

  
  William Vambenepe's blog — Authority: 410
  PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiency Application-centric management Development productivity Security To do so, there are technical characteristics that PaaS frameworks should eventually exhibit. These are not technical characteristics of a given PaaS ...
  4 days ago

• Enumeration of PaaS container types

  
  William Vambenepe's blog — Authority: 410
  What do we need from an on-demand application platform for enterprise software? Here is a proposed classification of container types on which you can create/scale/manage applications. Your application is made of modules that run on these containers (e.g. one app may have two “synchronous web request” modules, one ...
  4 days ago

• Persistent Cache - Part 2 (no mask)

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 423
  The Halloween video was fun to make and talk about, but I wanted to give people something a bit less frivolous to watch.  So here is Persistent Cache, part 2 ,which describes how data is copied from memory to memory across our Mesh Active fabric following the removal of a controller from an InServ storage cluster.
  1 week ago

• Create up to four virtual desktops for free.

  
  JustBol — Authority: 138
  Board with only one desktop or your one desktop making so much traffic of applications and you are totally confused between those? Try this totally free utility called Desktops v1.0 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell.This Desktops application allow user to create up to 4 virtual desktops in which user can run ...
  1 week ago

• Cloud cuts everyones cost of ownership

  
  Software as Services — Authority: 407
  Speaking in the opening keynote of SIIA OnDemand in San Jose this morning, SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard let slip a statistic that set several attendees a-twittering. He revealed that the SaaS provider’s multi-tenant application infrastructure supports its 2,850+ customers and 5.4+ million users on just 150 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Stormy Skies for Cloud Computing

  
  Things that Should be Easy — Authority: 112
  I don’t know about you, but I’m somewhat confused about all the hype over “cloud computing”. Don’t get me wrong, accessing services on the Internet makes sense, sometimes. What I don’t understand is how many people tout cloud computing as the silver bullet for all of our IT ills; you know, the way ...
  2 weeks ago

• 3PAR Countdown: Resiliency with performance

  
  StorageRap — Authority: 423
  All systems need contingencies - all the better if they can be built in. Unfortunately, failure mode and disaster operations usually means performance is sacrificed.  In todays world - especially if you are providing cloud services - degraded storage performance means you are going to have serious business issues to ...
  2 weeks ago

• MinnPost.com - ReliaCloud computing services launched to packed house

  
  Tech~Surf~Blog — Authority: 110
  A post I wrote for Minnov8.com got picked up by another Twin Cities online news site... MinnPost.com .
  2 weeks ago

• Missing out on the OCCI fun

  
  William Vambenepe's blog — Authority: 410
  As a recovering “design by committee” offender I have to be careful when lurking near standards groups mailing list, for fear my instincts may take over and I might join the fray. But tonight a few tweets containing alluring words like “header” and “metadata” got the better of me and sent me plowing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Beware the allure of Fools Cloud

  
  Software as Services — Authority: 407
  Even more insidious than the perils of Amateur Cloud (which I covered in my last post) is the allure of a phenomenon I’m calling Fool’s Cloud. The more familiar name by which this is known to many enterprises and IT vendors is ‘private cloud.’ It’s what happens when people look at the phenomenon of cloud ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to avoid the amateur cloud

  
  Software as Services — Authority: 407
  Someone this week asked me, what’s the cloud equivalent of SoSaaS ? What do we call it when people take outdated data center management practices and label them as cloud computing, even when they fall far short of what’s required? We already have the name, I replied, thanks to the events of the past week : ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

  
  William Vambenepe's blog — Authority: 410
  The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a sore point in the Cloud value proposition (see Hoff’s take for example). You have no control over patching/config actions taken by the provider, any of which could potentially affect ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why I think "cloud" is a buzzword encapsulating all other buzzwords. A Buzzword Cloud, if you will.

  
  BrianMadden.com — Authority: 422
  Ive been talking to anyone wholl listen about how I think "Cloud" is ridiculously over-hyped, and I even worked it into my article last week.  Today, I want to talk about why I think "Cloud" is the biggest buzz word since "Virtualization," and possibly more meaningless."Cloud" is too relativeWikipedia has a great ...
  4 weeks ago

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