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This week, both John and I are out and about at conferences, necessitating the dreaded, lo-fi phone recording option. Enjoy!

• John is at the NCIO - John gives us a review of that. Google providing custom search engines for the US intelligence agency. Reminds me of Citrix talking about how much intel agencies like virtualized networks.
• itSMF Fusion - pretty good so far. John says their problem is figuring out how this maps to cloud computing.
• Check out PuppetCamp - see agenda and details - Oct 1st and 2nd in SF.
• What's "the consumerization of IT" look like here? How does that trend effect how IT service delivery is done? Maybe it means more meta-data encoding, John says, echo'ing the Reductive Labs guys. Maybe IT has more time to customize their applications, like adding dopplr to hotel kiosks instead of those kiosks staying stale.
• Upcoming RCA webinar - Oct 1st, register here.
• Dell & Perot - Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register has a nice analysis. We recall Perot and EDS stories, like a good Dallas Morning News story on the history of EDS.
• CA buys NetQoS - summary of my take, and John gives us the common view of CA: a cash-cow holder.
• Jonh'll be down in Austin this week, we'll have a live recording.
• Groundwork 6.0 out - among other things: JBoss portal re-write, dashboard stuff. Also MonitoringForge.org.

Disclosure: Groundwork, Reductive Labs, Dell, and others are clients.

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This week, John and I catch up the virtualization and cloud news that's been floating around over the past week, of which there was much:

• John in Bulgaria, at Java2Days.
• VMworld: Fellow RedMonker Stephen's take. Moving between public and private clouds. does VMWare have a "real" cloud, or just good virtualization?
• RedHat Summit and RedHat's cloud take.
• John says VMWare's virtualization is still too labor intensive.
• The problem with the 100% open cloud - how does a provider differentiate on features if any provider can have it? Competing beyond price and speed.
• The RedHat cloud-application migration and development story.
• Coté's JBoss assessment - seeming to catch-up, but not as revolutionary as the used to be, the mantel of which seems to be help by open source and Spring.
• John checking out Eucalyptus in Ubuntu alpha release.
• Virtualization in Ubuntu land - KVM, kid.
• Looking forward to the Citrix Industry Analyst event next week. What ever happened to Citrix and 3Tera?
• Clouds vs. virtualized data centers.
• Overview of Capital Factory Demo Day.
• The ISV Renaissance - actually charing for/paying for software - what did the VC-types at the Capital Factory Demo Day say?
• John really likes JungleDisk of an example here. And the Silverpop Atlanta guy.
• In light of all this, r0ml's IT as a Deli talk is starting to make even more sense.

Disclosure: see the the RedMonk client list for clients mentioned.

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In this episode, "in the field," I'm joined by Adobe's James Ward again who I happened to run into at the RedHat Summit/JBoss World conference this week. Being at a (half) Java class, I spend most of the time asking James (who spends much time speaking with Java folks) what uses of RIAs he's been seeing in the Java world. We also talk about layering RIAs on-top of cloud services, like Salesforce. Being at a RedHat conference, I ask him to give us the matrix of where Flash (Player, Flex SDK, and Flex Builder) works in the Linux world, across 32 and 64 bits. He does a nice job of laying it out with plenty of context and history.

Disclosure: Adobe is a client, as is Sun.

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While at the RedHat Summit/JBoss World today, I sat down for a quick chat with GroundWork's David Dennis and Zenoss' Mark Hinkle. I ask them for their thoughts on the show, RedHat 5.4 and KVM, Mark's take on the recent Bossie awards, and how they're looking at VMWare/SpringSource/Hyperic now-a-days.

Disclosure: GroundWork and Zenoss are clients, as is SpringSource.