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• Living off Star Buck's cards - Net 30 is fun!
• Graft in John's family.
• VMWare EU: vShield Zones, cloud project renaming.
• Following VMWare's VDI news, we talk briefly about the VDI market itself.
• What's up with The Kids coming into companies? John says what one BigCo CIO said and we speculate more. The upshot are some subtle changes about expectations and (maybe) computer literacy. Still, I'm skeptical that so called "digital natives" will all be computer wiz-kids who'll wave of help from the IT department.
• AWS is still madeningly cheap
• ManageEngine On-Demand - at $5/node/month this is also maddeningly cheap
• John's Paglo Challenge - he wants to see that $1/node/month.
• This gets us into a general talk about monitoring pricing.
• Solaris on HP announcement - we reprise the "Solaris missed the Linux boat" folk-lore.
• Citrix/Microsoft - most hyper-visors free now, managing them is not.
• For IT Management spending - the rule of spending time, or spending money has carried over from open source.
• Longjump PaaS, Appcelerator Titanium and how RIAs are another approach to changing how applications are delivered and, thus, what the IT department does.
• Cisco Blades & Plumbers
• Austin company AlterPoint bought by Versata.
• SHARE is next week in Austin, TX.
• What are the good cloud conferences? SYS-CON Conference in NYC, one in Mountain View get good audiences. One in Vegas during Interop during May 18th. Executive Cloud Summit where John is chairing two panels. John will provide a better list soon.

Disclosure: IBM, AlterPoint, Microsoft, Appcelerator, and Sun are clients.

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This week, John and I hit up a lot of private cloud talk but go over some big "traditional" IT Management news as well. We discuss:

• John's TechTarget piece on Pulse 09
• I put the Pulse 09 videos in the IT Management Feed - here and here. Did that freak anyone out? More of this or less?
• We discuss the open source pieces Coté wrote. John also points to SolarWinds and ManageEngine. How much more does SolarWinds make than Zenoss, Hyperic, etc.? Here's an old SolarWindows number: $61.7 million from 2007.
• Microsoft Virtualization partnering with RedHat - James has the IP-angle on this as well.
• CohesiveFT VPN-Cube - beta with Amazon EC2 use, you could have a private network in EC2.
• HP paycuts - can John re-explain what The Finance Abyss problem is again? I think I've forgotten. John has no good answer, but maybe this funny presentation helps.
• New features in Amazon SimpleDB.
• 3Tera having 350-400 customers - how does their private cloud stuff stack up against the ITIL-light stuff we saw from IBM and other enterprise cloud people?
• Is this "enterprise cloud" stuff just replacing the meat-cloud in the enterprise. Here, the meat-cloud used to back RBAs and service catalogs - maybe automation. Coté tries to wedge in the Lotus Open Collaborative Platform and the Lotus in a virtual box for SMB stuff.

Disclosure: IBM is a client, as are RedHat, Microsoft,

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This week, Ryan Stewart and I are joined by Sun's Joshua Marinacci. We discuss several topics:

• JavaFX update from Josh. JavaFX 1.1 with Mobile Support.
• Partners for JavaFX Mobile. Ryan asks about the types of applications people are doing: games, cloud things, things for looking up movies, and other geo-location things.
• Coté asks what the story for existing hand-sets is. You can get Over-the-Air updates for some existing version of Java ME, this is one of the options that Sun sells. They also build the embedded JavaFX runtime.
• Sun will be selling developer phones with JavaFX during JavaOne.
• We talk about design-oriented tool use that Josh has done in the JavaFX world. Also, they'll show a designer-centric tool at JavaOne.
• JavaFX downloaded 100M times already.
• Ryan asks about the media and video codecs in JavaFX to clarify that story.
• Coghead shuts down - we liked Bob Warfield's coverage.
• What's this GridIron Software dev/designer workflow stuff? The product is called Flow. It seems track relationships between different Creative Suite files and do version control. Is this ALM for the dev/design workflow? Also a sort of "asset management" and browsing thing, kind of like Bridge scaled down to a project. See screencast. It's $249.
• The FX is out of the FlexSDK kerfuffle.
• Microsoft's research project, Social Desktop. Treating your desktop applications like a web site, with a URL.
• Josh and friends launched JFXstudio.org

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This week there was a ton of mobile news from most major RIA communities due to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. We saw the release of JavaFX Mobile, a laundry list of Adobe announcements, and lots of marketplace/app store news including from Microsoft. Ryan and I spend a good deal of time talking about the Kindle, the culture of GPS trail tracking, and our hopes for more open "app stores" in the mobile world. Here are the details:

• Kindle 2 - how much of a platform is the Kindle? Is it a cul de sac, or something that can augment Web 2.0 info-junkie shakes?
• "Everybody has an App Store" - Microsoft App Store - Retail stores
• Adobe Marketplace - still no buying, but link to buying.
• JavaFX Mobile - in addition to launching, Sun announced several partners: Sony Ericsson, LG Electronics, carriers like Orange and Sprint.
• JavaFX momentum: in month of Dec. had record downloads of 50M Java SE 6 Update 11. There's not a lot of sizzle beyond JavaFX executing on plan.
• Adobe Mobile Congress Announcements - Palm joining Open Screen (means: they'll work with the Adobe tool-chain and runtime), $10M Adobe/Nokia fund (how can you get that cash?), Flash Lite runtime for Nokia and Windows Mobile phones. Scoble has a good summary.
• Check out the list of current Adobe Open Screen partners.
• Trail GPS tracking - what's up with this culture?
• Moonlight 1.0 GA - we're interested to see what the open source world does with this and encouraged by the open source angle this brings to the RIA world.
• March Madness On Demand with Silverlight: "Today, CBSSports.com, in partnership with CBS Sports and the NCAA, announced that they have selected Microsoft Silverlight to deliver live and on-demand high-quality video coverage of the 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball March Madness Tournament, starting Thursday, March 19. Broadcast via CBSSports.com’s NCAA March Madness on Demand service, Silverlight will power a hi-definition quality video player that will deliver an enhanced video stream to online tournament viewers. After downloading the Silverlight plug-in, viewers can upgrade their March Madness experience from the standard player, which streams 550 kb/s, to the Silverlight player, which delivers up to 1.5 mb/s of enhanced tournament action. Both video options will be offered free of charge. The NCAA March Madness on Demand service will launch on Tuesday, March 10, and feature historical highlights from past tournaments until the first day of action on March 19. For more information, and to download the Silverlight plug-in, users can visit ncaa.com/mmod." (quote from an email I received on the topic.)

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Earlier this week, John and I were at IBM Tivoli Pulse 2009 for all of the exciting cloud announcements. We spend the bulk of the episode talking about those announcements, but get to other IT management news as well.

The agenda ended up being:

• The cloud talk and announcements from Pulse. See IBM's press release on the topic, and also the collection of Pulse announcements.
• IBM software in Amazon EC2 - pricing released as well
• Application development on clouds: beyond just load-balancing, web app clusters, and HA. It seems like it's something along the lines of learning parallel programming for cloud computing. Interestingly, from another angle - the death of Moore's Law - Grady Booch spoke to the change needed here back in an interview as RSDC 08.
• What is the self-provisioning part of IBM's private cloud stuff? Is that just RBAs re-branded? What's different & new?
• The Consumerization of Corporate IT: It seems like private cloud driven self-service takes away some of the nasty responsibilities that the IT department has: making the internal customers feel like they own the services more so don't look to IT to own those business services.
• John tells us about his CloudCamp Toronto adventures. See coverage over at his blog for more.
• Sun is building a cloud, but are people insane to go against Amazon? See Savvis as well. Actually, we conclude that it's early enough in the market that there's no insanity. Remember AltaVista?
• GroundWork 5.3 out - GroundWork seems to have wedged itself into the high-end category, competing more directly with Big 4 vendors. Is that success based on the nagios install?
• Service-now.com numbers I got from last week: "Booked almost $20 million in recurring revenue in the first half of FY09. Three consecutive years of triple-digit revenue growth. Cash-flow positive for the last year and a half. 237 enterprise customers using our IT service management SaaS, most are former HP and BMC customers"
• Are people more ready to run their monitoring stuff in the cloud, one Quest guy at CloudCamp Toronto said so.

Also, see the two IT Management video specials we recorded at Pulse: one with John and one with James.

Disclosure: IBM is a client, as is GroundWork. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.

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This week John and I cover much cloud talk and some general news items:

• What Pokens do?
• On the Media about cellphones in Japan.
• Kindle numbers
  
• Enterprise software catering to the highest paying customers, do open source companies?
• Why don't enterprises in-source their IT management coding?
• VMWare open sourcing their VDI client.
• Novell acquiring more companies? How to predict what people will.
• Free NetQos Symposium in Austin
• Obama Millions - John says it's good to be a project manager now.
• Camps: April 4th, 2009 is barcampESM, while cloudcampAustin is on April 7th, 2009.

And don't forget to follow (and add to!) the itmanagementguys tag to see what we're following in-between episodes.

Disclosure: many companies mentioned are RedMonk clients, see the RedMonk client list.

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This week, Ryan is back (yay!) and we've got some exciting items to cover, just for you, dear listeners:

• Snow-shoeing in Japan; Adobe MAX Tokyo; Spark project
• NTT DoCoMo project with location-based stuff.
• What'd the Japanese think of Catalyst.
• Josh says JavaFX Mobile coming out soon- what's the Java ME relation?
• preDevCamp - coming to 60+ cities near you! More from whurley as well.
• Netbooks!
• What's RIA development like (or what would it be like) on Netbooks, like SproutCore. We've got Photoshop online, picnik in flickr...so it seems like you could do some pretty good RIA development.
• Flash on the iPhone stories...again.
• Yammering about Yammer, they have an AIR app. RedMonk started using it, and Adobe folks have been using it.
• Scott Guthrie on Silverlight 3 & 4 (Ars story, El Reg story): H.264 video, cool 3D graphics using GPU, better UI framework stuff.
• This week's Poken give-away.

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Download the free Flex Builder trial and the Adobe AIR SDK and start building the next- generation of RIAs.

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This week, John and I discuss:

• Poken Promotional Party Parade - lucky listeners will get a free Poken! (Listen to learn how).
• Cloud definitional news: taxonomy madness. Hoff-layers.
• What's this taxonomy stuff told us about the essence of cloud stuff?
• Will cloud storage be the real killer app for the cloud? Will our kids know the word "quota"?
• WTF on netbooks, man? E.g.: "Ten per cent of online computer buyers now owns a netbook and almost 20 per cent of mobile PCs sought out by buyers in December 2008 was one of these mini-laptops." I guess this helps with the lads.
• John gets bitch-slapped by Robert Scoble.
• Would someone send me a netbook? I want to try a week on the netbook + zoho/Google.
• Dates: barcampESM (April 4th, 2009); CloudCampAustin (April 7th, 2009).
• no longer iloviT'ing - one of John's enterprise contacts switching to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, 2-3k server environment.
• Hyperic IQ reporting with JasperSoft.
• How does what SQLStream do fit to IT Management stuff? Real-time data-warehousing.
• IBM Cloud Initiative.
• Jane Curry Zenoss events paper - man, she's good at this stuff.
  
• Keep up with our stuff and thing we don't get to on del.icio.us: itmanagementguys tag in del.icio.us.

Disclosure: see the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned. My brother-in-law works at Idera, pictured above.