Software Defined Talk

I get Splunk's Michael Wilde to talk about CloudCampAustin as a excuse to show off one of his corny iPhone apps.

While at MIX09 accompanied by a rockin' sound-track from the Rock Band mega-stage down the hallway, I talked with Prashant Ketkar about Microsoft's cloud platform, Azure.After nailing down the proper pronunciation of "Azure," I ask Prashant to give us an overview of Azure. We then get into a discussion of the PaaS aspects of Azure and the overall ecosystem that may develop including partner opportunities and roles. I ask Prashant what the developer experience is like: that is, getting started with using Azure. We then briefly touch on the slightly different development concerns when deploying to the cloud.Finally, we go over the current feature set of Azure and look outwards at it's road-map, some items of which will announced this coming summer, esp. the pricing structure for Azure.Disclosure: Microsoft paid T&E to MIX09 and sponsored this video.

While at MIX09 this year, I had the chance to talk with Microsoft's Patric McElroy. We start out talking about how Microsoft data services map into cloud computing. While we discuss how existing technologies and techniques are migrated to Microsoft Azure, we also talk about the new functionality that comes with being hosted in the cloud: e.g., self-service provisioning, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and scaling data up (performance wise) to meet high data demands.I then ask Patric if there's cloud technologies and techniques that they're pulling back to on-premise software. There's some interesting tooling and provisioning tasks he tells us about. We also discuss how the role of the DBA may or may not be impacted in the Azure world. We wrap-up by talking about ADO.NET Data Services (or "Project Astoria," as I remember it), primarily how the RESTful entity mapping framework fits into Azure.Disclosure: Microsoft covered Tamp;E for MIX09 and sponsored this video.

In the IT industry 2009 was apex of cloud promises and hype. The early, now cliché successes captured everyone’s attention and many vendors turned on a dime to deliver something – anything – with the word cloud in it. At the same time, the aging hype-silos of development like Agile development, rails, open source, and […]

IBM’s Phil Fritz shows a brief, but thorough demo of Tivoli Live, from logging in, to looking at the monitored infrastructure, to browsing the available reports. Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this video.

Phil and Coté start out with a discussion of what Tivoli Live is, the types of things it monitors, services it offers (like reporting) how the SaaS angle works, the types of users they’re seeing so far, and what we can expect in the Tivoli Live roadmap. Disclosure: IBM is a client and sponsored this […]