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Links for November 21stToday

• Is Eucalyptus ready to be your private cloud? | High Scalability
• The Real Niel: ITIL versus MOF
  "I still favour the idea behind ITIL but find that, in practice, I need something that's more digestible and can be more easily explained to my staff and outsiders. For now, MOF gives me just that."
• OpsMgr SP2 Beta 1 on Connect « Ian Blyth - System Center Technologies
  Some new, interesting features in the current beta of System Center Operations Manager.
• Announcing HQ 4.0
  "It also provides the first cloud-friendly management agent which allows users to manage cloud based virtual machines securely and reliably from either inside the cloud, or from HQ 4.0 installations inside your datacenter." Also, can ship as an AMI.

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IT Management Podcast #26 - Change Management, CA, Amazon, Adobe PaaS, IBM Software Analyst SummitYesterday

Download the episode directly right here, subscribe to the feed in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here:

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Late on a Friday after a week of somewhat thin IT Management news, John and I still manage to pull out some interesting topics:

• John’s experience with change management in the enterprise. Though we don’t mention it, check out Niel Nickolaisen’s piece on ITIL vs. MOF.
• CA’s announcements about Amazon, SaaS offerings, and general cloudage.
• Amazon and CapGemini. John mentions moving SharePoint to the cloud, which also brings up the Microsoft Onl

OpenSolaris 11.08 - Interview and DemoYesterday

While at Sun’s Menlo Park campus recently, I had the chance to talk with Sun’s Tim Cramer:

Developing OpenSolaris & New Features in 11.08

We first talked with each other about the development process of OpenSolaris and went over some feature highlights for the 11.08 release:

OpenSolaris 11.08 Demo

Then, Tim showed us a quick demo of some of the more interesting new features in OpenSolaris 11.08:

Disclosure: Sun is a client and sponsored these videos.

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Links for November 20thYesterday

• Why developers prefer Macs
• CA unveils simplified suite, SaaS portfolio | InfoWorld | News | 2008-11-19 | By Denise Dubie, Network World
• Have you heard of Speedies? Where can I get some in your part of the world?
• Join Bizspark, profile you startup on the BizsparkDD and Hit Techmeme ! « Codorblog
  I assume all the "co-marketing" stuff for BizSpark was, you know, not real or at least not hip to neo-marketing. Looks like they're working to fix that assumption. Nice!
• Rivermuse: open source Fault Management system
  "Saddened by the fact that there has been no new innovation in Fault Management software for more than 10 years and that market consolidation has enabled a clutch of major vendors to 'price gouge' a captive customer base, we've decided to deliver a fault managemen
  

Links for November 19thNovember 20

• Microsoft, Novell eye Moonlight beta, system management
• Microsoft Silverlight loses Major League Baseball to Adobe Flash - Network World
• SAP Slashes NetWeaver Developer Subscription Price - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership
  The SDN community should be a bit happy. While we all love free stuff, hey, what're you gonna do. Also, compare to Microsoft BizSpark.
• Sun adds query analysis tool to MySQL Enterprise
• Zenoss Adds Native Installer for Apple Mac OS X to Zenoss Core 2.3 - Commercial Open Source Application, Systems and Network Monitoring - Zenoss
• IBM Payments Framework for Financial Services information