Orchestrating inside and outside the future cloud stack
Yesterday morning Portland-based IT automation software startup Puppet Labs Inc. stated it had received $30 million in funding from VMware Inc., the IT industry’s juggernaut in virtualization software....
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There was quite a bit of news in the cloud computing world this week, particularly around investments. The announcement came last week that Cisco purchased a one percent stake in Parallels and has...
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Two notable outages occurred this week in the cloud world: one was caused by a database error at Salesforce.com and the other was a data center outage that affected Visa Canada. Salesforce says they...
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ScienceLogic Attended Cloud Expo Europe 2013
Last week the ScienceLogic UK team again participated in the annual Cloud Expo Europe event at London Olympia, and what a terrific show it was! There was a fine range of speakers across eight...
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InfoWorld says ScienceLogic has the Best Network Monitoring System on Earth
Brian Chee and the InfoWorld test team put our product to the test and dubbed it the “best network monitoring system on Earth”. We couldn’t be more thrilled! As evidenced by Brian’s product review,...
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If you haven’t seen the latest in depth ScienceLogic product review you’re really missing out! The number one thing we’re most excited about this week is Brian Chee’s article that details some of the...
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Private Cloud, Private Dell?
Last Tuesday, Dell Inc., the number three world producer of PC’s, announced it was leaving the ranks of publicly traded companies with a substantial buyout by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners....
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This week started off with a bang when an expired SSL certificate caused a major Microsoft Azure Cloud outage. Data Center Knowledge gives a recap of exactly what happened, but suffice it to say the...
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Much debate has been sparked in light of recent announcements from Yahoo and Best Buy that telecommuting is no longer an option. InfoWorld’s David Linthicum wrote an article this week about the use of...
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OpenStack Summit in Portland
This week has been great engaging with OpenStack experts from a wide range of industries and disciplines. There are two major themes that became really clear about OpenStack this week: The growth and...
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Crossing the APM to Infrastructure Chasm
For years, IT administrators, operators, and developers have been plagued with the age old dilemma: why is my application running poorly? Many enterprise technologies exist today that help...
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Are you chicken farming? Or is your data center the new business platform?
Say goodbye to hosting as we know it. This was one of the messages that sprung from my panel at the recent Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit (HCTS) with The 451 Group in London. My dramatic...
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Are you chicken farming? Or is your data center the new business platform?...
Here are the rest of my thoughts from the recent Hosting & Cloud Transformation Summit (HCTS) with The 451 Group in London. Be sure to read Part 1. Do Less with Less Recent 451 addition, Tony...
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Northern Virginia Python Users Group Meetup
NoVA-Python is a local group for enthusiasts of the Python programming language. On the third Thursday of each month the NoVA-Python user group meets here at ScienceLogic to exchange ideas, catch up...
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Interop 2013 – Interoperability – a blessing or a curse?
As I recap ScienceLogic’s efforts and ingenuities delivered for Interop 2013, the list of items that I could talk about is quite large so this topic will likely find its way into multiple posts over...
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A mash-up of thoughts on Interop Las Vegas
A couple weeks ago we sent a large team of “ScienceLogicians” to Interop Las Vegas. Everyone had a fantastic time, and as Dave already described, it was an extremely successful show for us...
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InteropNet 2013: Network Management & Interoperability
Our Channel Alliance Manager, John Willsey, headed up our participation in InteropNet this year along with our Online Marketing Administrator, Will Boyd. In the name of interoperability, we added a...
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Dell’s Cloud Disinvestment: “Phew” that was a close one
Most initial reactions to Dell’s announcement that it is pulling out of the Public Cloud Services space, seems to be of un-surprise. After all, when you go in half-baked, expecting the pie to bake...
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SciLo Summer Fun
In the midst of all this derecho chatter, just take a look at the sunshine in the pictures below. You really can’t get a better weather forecast for a company picnic than what we were blessed with last...
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Be Prepared: Next Up, QoS-as-a-Service
As the cloud enters its next stage of growth, most of us are not asking why and how we should run applications in the cloud. Now, we are looking to optimize and guarantee performance to meet service...
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