http://www.artipot.com/authors/10898/david-link/ Latest articles by David Link from Artipot - your one-stop resource for free articles. http://www.artipot.com/articles/446408/forecast-mostly-cloudy-overview-of-how-federal-it-is-moving-toward-cloud-computing.htm Overprovisioning in hardware (data centers typically operate at less than 30% of capacity), physical space, energy and computing power is greatly reduced by moving to the cloud. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:53:44 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/446408/forecast-mostly-cloudy-overview-of-how-federal-it-is-moving-toward-cloud-computing.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/427869/cisco-live-keynote-john-chambers.htm Entertained by scenes of Cisco Live's past and quite loud 80's music, we waited for the great man. To pass the time and make sure the OCD of us actually stayed put, there was some live texting going on. Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:44:35 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/427869/cisco-live-keynote-john-chambers.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/386265/baseball-and-it-management.htm As we watched the ScienceLogic sponsored NY Yankees team win the regular season playoff for the Mason District Virginia league it dawned on me that there are a few commonalities between what the boys and girls are learning in their "classic" American sporting event and the events that shape our field of IOM. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:02:15 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/386265/baseball-and-it-management.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/384051/gartner-technologies-in-infrastructure-management.htm A day in and it's pretty obvious there are some mega-trends running through the sessions. Cloud computing is being covered extensively - and the underlying issues of reducing opex (power and cooling costs in particular) and getting away from traditional "overprovisioning" of servers crops up again and again. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:00:03 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/384051/gartner-technologies-in-infrastructure-management.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/381753/cloud-computing-past-present-and-future.htm Evolution of Cloud: Gartner's been talking about Real-Time Infrastructure for 8 years. Vendors like HP and IBM have talked about "adaptive enterprise", "on-demand", "dynamic infrastructure" and more for years as well. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:41:32 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/381753/cloud-computing-past-present-and-future.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/381474/gartner-on-oracle-acquisition-of-sun.htm A nice bonus session at the Gartner IOM Summit. The packed audience just goes to show you how much interest and how much remains unresolved in what the Oracle Acquisition of Sun (and MySQL) really means for enterprises. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:22:26 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/381474/gartner-on-oracle-acquisition-of-sun.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/381371/gartner-ten-technologies-to-watch.htm The Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit 2009 kicked off with a bang this morning, literally. Around 5am this morning, we were all woken up by a violent thunderstorm that lit the sky for miles around. Better than a wake-up call. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:20:39 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/381371/gartner-ten-technologies-to-watch.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/379950/cloud-computing-4-analysts-perspective.htm Cloud computing does not mean a massive-scale operation, like Google, or even that it's someone else's stuff. It means that we have users and providers and between them we have a brick wall. Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:35:09 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/379950/cloud-computing-4-analysts-perspective.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/369316/hosting-transformation-summit-europe-2009.htm There were a few scare stories running around a couple of years ago about the amount of data center space being built and warnings that we were returning to the boom and bust Exodus days. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:16:19 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/369316/hosting-transformation-summit-europe-2009.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/365762/live-from-smx-advanced-how-much-do-i-charge-for-sem-search-marketing-agency-pricing-models.htm With the challenges facing the economy today, pricing, needless to say, is an issue on the minds of many search marketing agencies. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:52:03 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/365762/live-from-smx-advanced-how-much-do-i-charge-for-sem-search-marketing-agency-pricing-models.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/365300/interop-wrap-up-and-on-to-cisco-live.htm The boys will do a wrap-up of InteropNet - with status on what EM7 monitored on the show network. They did a great job. As usual, if you didn't hear about a big outage, you know they got the job done. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:58:33 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/365300/interop-wrap-up-and-on-to-cisco-live.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/348670/cloud-middlemen-the-case-of-zimory-and-the-cloud-marketplace.htm If you look up the word "middleman" at dictionary(dot)com, you get the usual definitions of "person who plays an economic role intermediate between producer and retailer or consumer" and the more generic "person who acts as an intermediary". Wed, 13 May 2009 01:46:17 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/348670/cloud-middlemen-the-case-of-zimory-and-the-cloud-marketplace.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/345697/hot-stage-vendor-show-update.htm Stage is over after just a week and a half. In dog years, I feel like it was more like 6 months trapped in a submarine with a bunch of guys. A ton of fun. A ton of work. Sun, 10 May 2009 12:58:24 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/345697/hot-stage-vendor-show-update.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/345394/mysql-to-be-or-not-to-be.htm Clearly MySQL has presented challenges for Oracle's business model, and as one of the most followed open source initiatives, MySQL based applications are making significant impact against commercial business. Sun, 10 May 2009 07:03:31 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/345394/mysql-to-be-or-not-to-be.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/323201/fose-2009-survey-part-ii-cant-see-the-clouds.htm This is our third year doing the survey of Government IT at the FOSE show, so we are able to show some trends. Over time, we've switched some topics in and out of the list, but we have always asked two main questions: Which technologies and projects are most important to Government IT and which ones have already been implemented or are agencies planning to implement soon. Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:09:36 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/323201/fose-2009-survey-part-ii-cant-see-the-clouds.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/318025/fose-2009-transforming-government-technology-with-cloud-computing.htm FOSE definitely saved one of the most interesting sessions for last - I sat in on a panel discussion today on cloud computing, which provided some interesting industry and agency insight on clouds and how they should be used within the federal government. Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:21:29 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/318025/fose-2009-transforming-government-technology-with-cloud-computing.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/311356/fose-2009-keynote-vivek-kundra-and-louis-freeh.htm Louis Freeh, former director of the FBI, was originally scheduled to do the keynote, but it only made sense to add on Vivek Kundra, newly appointed federal government CIO to speak to the mainly federal workers and vendors crowd. Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:22:33 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/311356/fose-2009-keynote-vivek-kundra-and-louis-freeh.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/309459/fose-2009-the-virtual-reality-securely-embracing-virtualization.htm It's become common knowledge that virtualization has plenty of benefits but plenty of drawbacks as well. Virtual machines can contribute to the "greening" of data centers and lower costs on space, power, cooling and provisioning. Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:07:27 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/309459/fose-2009-the-virtual-reality-securely-embracing-virtualization.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/285988/sysadmin-how-great-talent-can-end-up-hurting-a-company-on-exit.htm Along with the ugly and constant news of layoffs comes reports like this latest one about a fired contractor at Fannie Mae who allegedly tried to create a "Server Graveyard." Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:06:49 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/285988/sysadmin-how-great-talent-can-end-up-hurting-a-company-on-exit.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/266452/network-management-at-the-network-world-it-roadmap-show-common-challenges-and-advice-from-hughes.htm Too many alarms has the same consequences as too few. Create a check and balances system to verify that systems are actually being monitored Hughes makes sure monitored systems show up in their IP/DNS database, in EMC/SMARTS (their manager of managers), in EM7 of course in and various other element managers. Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:54:13 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/266452/network-management-at-the-network-world-it-roadmap-show-common-challenges-and-advice-from-hughes.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/251615/conversation-about-virtualization-and-storage-over-a-rubber-chicken-lunch.htm One of the things I look forward to at conferences like Gartner Data Center is the opportunity to talk to real users about their infrastructure management challenges and what's important to them. Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:34:28 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/251615/conversation-about-virtualization-and-storage-over-a-rubber-chicken-lunch.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/243449/national-security-perspectives-a-post-election-insider-view.htm Recently I participated in an event entitled National Security Perspectives held at the famous Congressional Country Club in Maryland. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:13:43 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/243449/national-security-perspectives-a-post-election-insider-view.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/220420/integrating-event-incident-and-problem-management.htm Change, Change, Change. What needs to change as IT organizations move towards sophisticated virtualized infrastructure? Event/Incident and Problem Management integration of course! Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:12 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/220420/integrating-event-incident-and-problem-management.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/213904/can-you-believe-it-with-the-financial-markets-in-turmoil-the-hosting-industry-continues-to-thrive.htm I am participating in the 4th annual Hosting Transformation Summit in sunny Las Vegas today and have just listened to some heartwarming news from Dan Golding the head of Tier1 Research. Dan kicked off the morning with his Keynote "Managed Hosting and Colocation in 2009 and beyond." Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:06:40 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/213904/can-you-believe-it-with-the-financial-markets-in-turmoil-the-hosting-industry-continues-to-thrive.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/213740/q-a-with-doug-mcclure-what-makes-business-service-management-successful.htm Our initial Q&A with Doug McClure, who took some time to answer some strategic questions on Business Service Management (BSM) Lite. Doug shares his thoughts on BSM and CMDB strategies for companies and how his stint in the U.S. Navy helped shape his future passion for BSM. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:09:09 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/213740/q-a-with-doug-mcclure-what-makes-business-service-management-successful.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/213738/q-a-with-doug-mcclure-asks-if-bsm-lite-is-the-answer.htm Doug McClure, Senior Managing Consultant for Business Service Management (BSM) and IT Service Management (ITSM) for the IBM Software Services for Tivoli (ISST) team at IBM Tivoli (part of Software Group (SWG)) answers questions on Business Service Management "lite." Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:06:15 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/213738/q-a-with-doug-mcclure-asks-if-bsm-lite-is-the-answer.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/195996/network-skill-level-gap-is-growing-but-growth-opportunities-abound.htm A recent IDC report sponsored by the Cisco Learning Institute reveals a huge networking skills gap is emerging in North America, which spells trouble for enterprises. Listen to this: "600,000 IT workers were needed to install, configure, manage and secure networks in North America in 2007, 14% of the total IT workforce." Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:25:20 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/195996/network-skill-level-gap-is-growing-but-growth-opportunities-abound.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/182968/q-a-with-barry-cummings-interopnet-help-desk-lead.htm During Interop New York 2008 Hot Stage I had the opportunity to sit down with Barry Cummings, the team lead for the InteropNet Help Desk to talk to him about his experiences with Interop and EM7. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:40:13 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/182968/q-a-with-barry-cummings-interopnet-help-desk-lead.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/165815/time-is-up-ipv6-omb-mandate.htm Three years ago, the OMB set a June 2008 deadline "by which all agencies' infrastructure (network backbones) must be using IPv6 and agency networks must interface with this infrastructure." Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:20:54 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/165815/time-is-up-ipv6-omb-mandate.htm http://www.artipot.com/articles/155539/network-security-it-takes-a-village.htm While external attacks are certainly more malicious in intent, most of the internal ones ended up being due to misconfiguration or just plain misunderstanding. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:46:42 +0000 http://www.artipot.com/articles/155539/network-security-it-takes-a-village.htm