Management

In part 1 of this post I talked about emerging cloud technologies, and how one management technology built for the cloud paradigm is at play in bringing cloud-like capabilities to your infrastructure. Pressing on with this theme, one more example helps paint the picture of what cloud really is, and why much of the baggage we get mired in (the hoopla about standardization) should be tossed out with the bathwater.

Chatter on about the pros and the cons of the cloud as we might, you're seeing vendors demonstrate every day how the fundamental concept of cloud is changing how you will compute tomorrow. This is part one of a two part post.

This pilot fish has some extra money in his medical flexible spending account at the end of the year, and he knows it's use-it-or-lose-it time, so he decides to try Lasik surgery.

Pilot fish passes along a highly descriptive trouble ticket received by the help desk -- with maybe a little more information than strictly necessary.

A company executive has an e-mail problem with no technical solution -- but fortunately, this pilot fish has a nontechnical alternative.

If you're just Joe or Jane Linux user, you probably could care less about the reseller or channel sales side of Linux. It's got nothing to do with you. But, if you're own a business and want to work with Linux or open-source software, than SYNNEX's announcing the launch of the Open Source Channel Alliance is big news.

This pilot fish works at a psychiatric hospital where, he says, "our most challenged individuals are all too often medical doctors."

In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches worries about Windows 7 deployment plans—but is everything quite as it seems? Not to mention a second-hand Elite gag...

This pilot fish's boss, the company controller, comes into IT one morning with his laptop -- and he's very worried.

This IT support pilot fish works as a contractor at a Defense Department facility, where the data-security requirements are stringent and old BlackBerries can pose a problem.

Wow. The Hackett Group says the best IT shops will put 60% of their IT investment capital into improvement and innovation projects. Have you re-examined your IT investment portfolio recently?

This company's main manufacturing plant is located in the sometimes frigid North, while another plant is in a place where it gets cold enough to snow only once every few years.

Well, I didn't pick a winner, but you can decide for yourself if the top three Linux Foundation videos are your personal best of the best.

It's a few years ago, and this pilot fish works at a very large data processing outfit where every night there's a very large job that runs for hours -- until there's a problem.

Most of the reasons that Linux has only a tiny slice of the desktop market pie has little to do with Linux, but the Linux distributors are also partly to blame.