Apple is not the only one making headlines, systems management still gets some play amongst the noise… Oliver Marks writes an interesting piece discussing Management 2.0: the role of systems management in a world ruled by Web 2.0 technologies and the consumerization of IT Alan Shimel discusses the pros and cons of centralized computing and [...]

TGIF! This marks the first full week of our HyperLINKS – hopefully you’re finding that its news you can use. So without further ado, it looks like a Hyperic filled Friday. Our favorite :) We’re first to make news today – as Redmonk’s newest customer we had our first customer briefing. Michale Cote came up [...]

Normally, I try to avoid reading business books. I especially avoid those promoting the secret sauce to building great companies. I figure the folks who actually do the building often tend to be too busy working, or otherwise enjoying the fruits of their labors instead of writing books. Plus, there are no shortcuts into building [...]

In today’s picks, open source continues its path of domination with its most recent prey being the cloud, among other things: Ostatic editor, Sam Dean writes about Eucalyptus as an open source alternative to Amazon’s EC2 Google is joining forces with IBM to train university students to be better equipped to succeed using cloud and [...]

It’s another award-winning day here at Hyperic. Well, almost… Hyperic HQ named runner up in the “Best Virtualization Tool” category of ServerWatch’s Annual Product Excellence Awards, considering we’re a monitoring tool and not actually a virtualization tool – that’s pretty cool. It shows how hard monitoring is in a virtual world. Can’t miss noting that [...]

It’s cloudy here in SF, and a “cloudy” day for news. Here are today’s top picks: Michael Vizard writes about cloud computing and outlines three different perspectives of the cloud: applications, platforms and infrastructure. We think the market will rally around these definitions. Eric Lundquist interviews VMware CEO Dianne Greene about the challenges facing VMware [...]

The week started off with a bang, and so will the HyperLINKs: Ok, so monitoring can’t solve EVERY problem…ThePlanet’s datacenter exploded this past weekend, leaving 9000 servers offline, including the LoopFuse servers that host part of our newsletter. Sorry for those who missed out on our graphics this weekend, they’re back up now. Ed Burnette [...]