Glad and extremely proud to have contributed to this: as of today, service providers and enteprises can purchase the latest & greatest tool for public and private cloud management. A large service provider with a well-known brand is already running it in production, to drive its cloud business. More details about that at launch, in January. Happy holidays all!
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Sneak peak here. How much easier does it get?
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Quite happy to announce that our beta site has just gone live. We have a number of lighthouse accounts world-wide who will get the beta automatically - and on top of that any interested entity (enterprise or service provider) can now express interest to participate in the program. As 2.0 has a ton of new features, I’d say it’s worth checking this out if you’re serious about cloud.
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Particularly pleased with the progress in F-Spot. It’s not Lightroom of course, but it now does cropping, straightening and tint en temp setting next to the other usual basic color manipulations - for now I’m more than happy with it. Occasionally I may need to apply gradients, but I’m willing to do that in GIMP. This is where the “Open with GIMP” right-click menu option comes in handy. And: from GIMP, you can save right back into a modified copy of the photo in F-Spot! Sweet. Below a photo that I posted on this blog a while ago - just looks way more interesting now…
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I contributed to a Novell white paper that explains how the integration between Novell Operations Center and Novell Cloud Manager eases the life of cloud administrators who want to put Service Levels in the Cloud Manager catalog, next to Workload Templates. After all, offering Service Levels implies an Agreement between Service Provider and Tenant. This Agreement has to be measured, so that costing can happen correctly. Secondly, Operations Center makes it easy to correctly assess the damage of an SLA breach: all impacted business processes are immediately identified in the Service Model. The cherry on the pie are the role-based dashboards. These allow cloud administrators to expose information directly to those who benefit from it (and only to them), from infrastructure teams to application administrators to business process owners. You can download the paper here.
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What to do on a flight without in-seat entertainment? I figured I’d try to tab out José González rather haunting version of “Hand on your heart”. I think it’s pretty much correct, but of course I did this without a guitar. Most tabs you find out there assume a “DADDAB” tuning, which works well all the way to the outro, but then it really gets you in to trouble. Found the solution on Youtube: the correct tuning is actually DADABE, the same tuning José uses for “Cycling Trivialities”. Enjoy - you can download the tabs here. I moved the outro to the beginning.
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Just got back from a 1.5 week proof of concept (PoC) for a large systems integrator in India. To satisfy the required use cases, we integrated several Novell WorkloadIQ products to come to a fully working solution:
- Cloud Manager - delivering self-service, a catalog for workloads and services levels, and driving the actual workload provisioning on the VM hosts
- Operations Center - for SLA management, end user experience monitoring, and driving automatic anomaly remediation (by kicking of specific remediation workflows in the Cloud Manager Orchestration Service)
- Sentinel - for log management compliance, and event correlation (more about that later)
- Identity Manager - for driving the actual approval workflow that leads to the initiation of the workload provisioning. For this particular Poc, we didn’t use the built-in workflow from Cloud Manager, but we offloaded it to IDM, so that the role based provisioning module (RBPM) within IDM could manage tickets in BMC’s Remedy. Pretty cool.
Has been great fun, especially since it involved working with the best of the best in Novell Services.
During the weekend we managed to wrench in a visit to the Taj Mahal, near New Delhi. I have many pics from the trip - my favorite ones are below. Painted hands of a girl crossing us in the street in Old Delhi, and two young brothers in front of the Old Delhi mosque.
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We come out pretty well - full read here. Nice way to close off 2010, best wishes to you all.
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Good insight from Gartner’s Richard Jones.
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The official name is “iOS Client”, or Novell Cloud Manager mobile 1.0. This app will shortly be available on the Apple app store, and allows cloud administrators and business service owners (that’s what cloud end users are called in Cloud Manager speak) to manage their services on the road. It’s a really cool thing, download it (it’s free) and give it a try! Novell Cloud Manager 1.1 is out since December 8.
There are some initial reviews on the new client and Cloud Manager 1.1, in ChannelRegister and ZDNet.
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