Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Finally, it was pretty exciting to see this blog listed on the Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009). ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. MORE
Friday, April 17, 2009. April 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM. April 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Postcards from SDForums Developers Conference. MORE
Thu Nov 12, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Apple's iconic presentations. MORE
Fri Oct 2, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Analyzing and Improving Conversion. MORE
Tuesday, March 24, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Videos: What is Infrastructure Orchestration. My first endeavors into online video. MORE
Fri Mar 27, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed. MORE
Monday, March 23, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Unified computing is so easy - 6 easy steps. MORE
Wed Sep 30, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Ranking Social Media. In business itâ??s s common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and movies are all ranked on â??best best sellerâ?? charts. While this isnâ??t MORE
Tuesday, March 3, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades. MORE
Friday, February 13, 2009. Yours-truly will be one of the speakers at the Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in NY March 30-April 1, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Join me at NYCs cloud computing expo. They have a very awesome agenda , including a keynote from Werner Vogels, Amazons CTO. MORE
Wednesday, January 14, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. MORE
Monday, January 05, 2009. Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009. In 2009, I will continue writing on agile but will largely focus on roles, responsibilities, and processes on the periphery. So on to 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. MORE
Tuesday, December 8, 2009. In 2009 Xsigo demonstrated (with VMware) the data-center-in-a-rack at VMworld (it ran all the demos in the VMware booth), showing 1,000 VMs consolidated to a single 60" rack and managed from a single console. December 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM. MORE
Wednesday, December 16, 2009. December 16, 2009 at 1:08 PM. December 16, 2009 at 2:57 PM. December 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. MORE
Thursday, November 19, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Infrastructure Virtualization: The Next Logical Step. 2010 will be an interesting year for virtualization - but not from the perspective youre probably thinking. It will be the year of the virtual infrastructure, not of the virtual machine. MORE
Tuesday, September 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A real-world cloud user shares his findings. I subscribe to a number of mailing lists from my alma mater. A few weeks ago, an alum "John" posted a request for recommendations for a cloud computing vendor for his small investment firm. What follows is his email to the group following responses he received. MORE
Monday, September 14, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II. MORE
Tuesday, September 22, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Alternative Recommendation for DCeP "Service Productivity". Back in February of this year, The Green Grid published a paper listing proposed Proxy measures for data center productivity, specifically Data Center Energy Productivity (DCeP). MORE
Monday, September 7, 2009. September 8, 2009 at 7:11 PM. September 8, 2009 at 11:02 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Where the Server Industry Went Amiss. MORE
Thursday, September 10, 2009. September 13, 2009 at 10:53 AM. September 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box. MORE
Thursday, December 03, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. What Could Save Media Businesses. So what will save the media industry? MORE
Monday, August 17, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Whats your "data center complexity factor"? MORE
Monday, August 24, 2009. When I read Gartners Hype Cycle for IT Operations Manag ement 2009, I was struck by how many technology categories may really need to change (or may simply become unnecessary) in a cloud model. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. MORE
Tuesday, December 22, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. The Most Important Job of the CIO. MORE
Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Put another way "It's the SW stupid" July 7, 2009 at 10:32 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. MORE
Mon Dec 21, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Image via Wikipedia. Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution. MORE
Tuesday, July 14, 2009. August 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM. August 15, 2009 at 11:56 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Quantifying Data Center Simplification. MORE
Monday, November 30, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. MORE
Monday, June 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments. MORE
Tuesday, May 12, 2009. May 15, 2009 at 7:24 AM. May 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM. May 27, 2009 at 2:09 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction. MORE
Fri Dec 11, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Checking Vendor References. One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential vendors. A vendor reference check goes beyond the sales pitch to reveal the true nature of a product or company. If youâ??re MORE
Wednesday, April 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics. One topic close to my heart is the concept "working anywhere." MORE
Tue Nov 24, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Does Seth Godin Get It? Earlier this week Seth Godin. announced his first presence on twitter with the post Delivering blogs via Twitter. You can receive instant daily updates of this blog by following @thisissethsblog. MORE
Tuesday, August 18, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. MORE
Monday, May 4, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Lessons from Glassblowing for High-Tech marketing. MORE
2009 Related Topics Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 5, 2009
Monday, January 05, 2009. Agile in 2008 to Twitter, Cloud Computing and Publishing in 2009. In 2009, I will continue writing on agile but will largely focus on roles, responsibilities, and processes on the periphery. So on to 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation.
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 8, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009. In 2009 Xsigo demonstrated (with VMware) the data-center-in-a-rack at VMworld (it ran all the demos in the VMware booth), showing 1,000 VMs consolidated to a single 60" rack and managed from a single console. December 9, 2009 at 8:21 AM.
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009. September 13, 2009 at 10:53 AM. September 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 17, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Whats your "data center complexity factor"?
Fountainhead
JUNE 29, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. HPQ & CSCO: Analysis of New Blade Environments.
Fountainhead
DECEMBER 16, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009. December 16, 2009 at 1:08 PM. December 16, 2009 at 2:57 PM. December 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Thu Nov 12, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Apple's iconic presentations.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Monday, November 30, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation.
Fountainhead
AUGUST 24, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009. When I read Gartners Hype Cycle for IT Operations Manag ement 2009, I was struck by how many technology categories may really need to change (or may simply become unnecessary) in a cloud model. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar.
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009. September 8, 2009 at 7:11 PM. September 8, 2009 at 11:02 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Where the Server Industry Went Amiss.
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. An Ideal Datacenter-in-a-Box, Part II.
SPF13
OCTOBER 2, 2009
Fri Oct 2, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Analyzing and Improving Conversion.
SPF13
MARCH 27, 2009
Fri Mar 27, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Facebook Meets Twitter & FriendFeed.
Social, Agile and Transformation
AUGUST 18, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 30, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Finally, it was pretty exciting to see this blog listed on the Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009). ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation.
Fountainhead
APRIL 17, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009. April 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM. April 20, 2009 at 3:54 PM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Postcards from SDForums Developers Conference.
Fountainhead
APRIL 29, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Pointers for IT Business Continuity & Pandemics. One topic close to my heart is the concept "working anywhere."
Fountainhead
MAY 4, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Lessons from Glassblowing for High-Tech marketing.
Fountainhead
MARCH 24, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Videos: What is Infrastructure Orchestration. My first endeavors into online video.
Fountainhead
MARCH 23, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Unified computing is so easy - 6 easy steps.
Fountainhead
MARCH 3, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 20, 2009
Tuesday, January 20, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 14, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation.
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A real-world cloud user shares his findings. I subscribe to a number of mailing lists from my alma mater. A few weeks ago, an alum "John" posted a request for recommendations for a cloud computing vendor for his small investment firm. What follows is his email to the group following responses he received.
SPF13
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Mon Dec 21, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Top Sites Running Drupal. Image via Wikipedia. Drupal is a very powerful Content Management Solution.
Fountainhead
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Alternative Recommendation for DCeP "Service Productivity". Back in February of this year, The Green Grid published a paper listing proposed Proxy measures for data center productivity, specifically Data Center Energy Productivity (DCeP).
SPF13
DECEMBER 11, 2009
Fri Dec 11, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Checking Vendor References. One task that should be part of every IT managers is performing reference checks on potential vendors. A vendor reference check goes beyond the sales pitch to reveal the true nature of a product or company. If youâ??re
Fountainhead
MAY 12, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009. May 15, 2009 at 7:24 AM. May 16, 2009 at 9:23 PM. May 27, 2009 at 2:09 AM. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. I find it odd that so much is being written about defining cloud terminology, cloud operation, and cloud construction.
SPF13
SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
Wed Sep 30, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Ranking Social Media. In business itâ??s s common to use sales as a metric to determine success. Songs, albums, books and movies are all ranked on â??best best sellerâ?? charts. While this isnâ??t
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 22, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. The Most Important Job of the CIO.
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 3, 2009
Thursday, December 03, 2009. ▼ 2009. (36). Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. What Could Save Media Businesses. So what will save the media industry?
SPF13
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
Tue Nov 24, 2009. by Steve Francia. talks. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Does Seth Godin Get It? Earlier this week Seth Godin. announced his first presence on twitter with the post Delivering blogs via Twitter. You can receive instant daily updates of this blog by following @thisissethsblog.
Fountainhead
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009. ▼ 2009. (50). skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Infrastructure Virtualization: The Next Logical Step. 2010 will be an interesting year for virtualization - but not from the perspective youre probably thinking. It will be the year of the virtual infrastructure, not of the virtual machine.
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