Links List 6.27.08

June 27th, 2008 by Julia Lim

Peanut butter and chocolate. Beavis and Butthead. Social networking and CMDB? Here’s a great blog post on the recently released myCMDB from Managed Objects. The IT Skeptic is as funny as ever.

We heard a lot about cloud computing at the Gartner show this week. You can read a bit about their take on it here. While we’ve been musing on the different ways we monitor cloud computing resources, Hyperic is already announcing their solution to monitor Amazon’s cloud computing availability. Hyperic believes that “making use of cloud resources would be more popular if the customers had an independent means to monitor cloud services.” They plan to offer the monitoring service to other cloud companies this year. However, John Willis questions the hype of Hyperic.

Here are some interesting NetFlow use stats from our friends at Network Instruments. In a survey they did a few months ago, only 23% of respondents used NetFlow to monitor network performance; 60% didn’t use flow tech and 17% weren’t sure they had anything for it. I have to say we are asked at every Interop show we do if we support NetFlow so the numbers are slightly surprising but useful.

Kuala Lumpur is bullish on Sun’s virtualization strategy.

Just like at the Gartner show, one of the tracks at the Burton Group’s conference this week is on virtualization. This post on the Data Center Strategies blog covers Day 1 with some interesting notes on where virtualization needs to go, from clarity around software licensing and support to the use of raw storage (connecting VMs directly to LUNs) to improve VM performance, provide better integration with storage and data management solutions, and prevent vendor lock-in.

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