IT Systems Management

Review of Fujitsu’s IaaS Cloud API submission to DMTF

Things are heating up in the DMTF Cloud incubator. Back in September, VMWare submitted its vCloud API (or rather a “reader’s digest” version of it) to...

0 replies - 116 views - 11/25/09 by vambenepe in News

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...

0 replies - 480 views - 11/11/09 by vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 2: configuration management)

What benefits does REST provide for configuration management (in traditional data center and in Clouds)?

0 replies - 756 views - 07/28/09 by vambenepe in News

A small step for SCA, a giant leap for BSM

In a very short post, Khanderao Kand describes how configuration properties for BPEL processes in Oracle SOA Suite 11G are attached to SCA components. Here is...

0 replies - 719 views - 07/27/09 by vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1238 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

A post-mortem on the previous IT management revolution

Before rushing to standardize “Cloud APIs”, let’s take a look back at the previous attempt to tackle the same problem, which is one of IT management...

0 replies - 1726 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News

New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler

 

0 replies - 1126 views - 04/16/09 by vambenepe in Announcements

Exploring IT management in a changing IT world

The tagline for this blog is “IT management in a changing IT world”. Of course nobody but their authors care about blog taglines. Still, in the unlikely...

0 replies - 1012 views - 03/13/09 by vambenepe in News

WS-Discovery and WS-DeviceProfile public review

We are in the middle of the public review period for the three specifications coming out of the “Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile...

0 replies - 438 views - 03/08/09 by vambenepe in News