Links List 6.20.08

Posted June 20th, 2008 by Joe Pendry

Google and Firefox both saw downtime this week. Google App Engine went down for a brief period on Tuesday, causing developers much angst as they could not access their management consoles. Interestingly enough, there was no mention of the downtime on their blog. Firefox also saw a brief period of downtime on Tuesday, due to the volume of people trying to access the download platform. As with Twitter, it appears that scalability and testing are key factors to prevent downtime.

Input/output (I/O) virtualization gets a nod from the Burton Group’s Data Center Strategies, noting, “in general these solutions do reduce complexity when trying to manage the unruly forest of physical connections that go into a rack of virtual server or blade hosts.”

Managed Objects discusses CMDB and the vision for integration. 70% of the data needed for a CMDB already exists in the enterprise. What’s needed is the mechanism by which to tie this data together, and present it in a manner that can be easily updated by the enterprise and consumed by the business.

Judith Hurwitz asks if Microsoft can manage to pull together five opportunities for service. Virtualization, managing a combined physical and virtual world, creating the next generation dynamic platform, SaaS (and more), and SOA are all mentioned as a unique opportunity to take Microsoft’s traditional customer base of programmers and move them to a new level of knowledge so they can participate in their vision of Dynamic IT.