Wearing an eyepatch (I’m having a little eye trouble) has given me new appreciation for the importance of visibility. There’s some good news coming out on that front; as company Ipoque has released an open-source deep packet inspection client. It’s slower than commercial offerings – more of a tech demo than anything else, but the [...]
Archive | September, 2009
Notes from VMWorld
As an individual representing a vendor that has traditionally viewed IT through the network lens, attending VMworld last week I sometimes felt a bit like a Trekkie at a sports bar. Not entirely unwelcome, but not exactly the crowd I usually run with, either. While virtualization initiatives seem to be securely in the hands of [...]
The Bittish Invasion.
Today at midnight will mark the release of “The Beatles Rockband.” In case you’re not familiar with “Rockband,” or it’s predecessor, “Guitar Hero,” I would like to congratulate you on your recovery from the deep coma that you have been in since 2005. Welcome to the future, where a common pastime is pretending to play [...]
Doctorow on Cloud Computing
Cory Doctorow, one of the lead authors of Boing Boing, writes in the technology section of the British newspaper “The Guardian” his thoughts on cloud computing. And those thoughts, summed up, are: The main attraction of the cloud to investors and entrepreneurs is the idea of making money from you, on a recurring, perpetual basis, [...]
Filming Jim Metzler
Sorry that there’s little blog content today, but we’re currently filming a series of videos with guru Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler, and Associates. Here’s a pic. I’m really proud of the production – 5 microphones, 3 cameras, and a crazed nut (me) trying to keep track of it all. I’d also like to thank [...]
What Google Did Right In Yesterday’s “GFail” incident.
Google’s E-mail was down yesterday for 100 minutes – annoying many, and hurting the productivity of a number of companies that rely on Gmail. You could chalk this up to the danger of relying on cloud apps… but, Google is supposed to be the cream of the Cloud providers. What happened? Well, according to the [...]
Virtualizing Windows on the iPhone
Here’s a cool little thing coming out of VMWorld this week in San Francisco. WYSE technologies, which makes the other half of the virtualized desktop equation that most people don’t think about – thin clients and thin client software – has developed an iPhone appwhich allows you to access a virtualized Windows desktop on your [...]
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“President Obama, Will you save the Tiny Mars Humans?”
Monitoring your network is crucial to maintaining your network; but the two are obviously not the same. You can have all the data, have it presented in an easy to understand format, run report after report, and it won’t matter if, at the end of the day, the person whose job it is to interpret [...]