Links List 7.25.08
July 25th, 2008 by Julia Lim, VP, Marketing
Happy System Administrator Day!
Of all things, I had to read about this on the Wall Street Journal. But check out the link for some kudos and a chuckle or two for the System Administrator Appreciation song.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the military is taking “Tech Lessons”. It seems that over the last few years, the DISA CIO has been visiting different tech companies to learn about cutting-edge technologies that might be able to help soldiers in the battlefield. CIO Garing identified social networks and mashups as great technologies for smaller projects with potentially more immediate impact than the traditional years-long IT projects of the past. He should check out NAPA and the Collaboration Project which highlights just how government agencies and orgs are already doing what he’s talking about.
Just what I was waiting for, open source takes on cloud computing. 
We had a very interesting call this week with analyst firm, The 451 Group, about the cloud and who is really doing what in this space now. Trying to separate the hype from reality, just like everyone else.
After a disappointing (to analysts and the street) financial analyst call on Tuesday, VMware’s stock reached an all time low, almost back to the IPO stage. In a follow-up interview, Forbes asked the new CEO what he thinks about the stock price, the analysts saying VMware doesn’t have a solid or innovative growth plan for the future, and whether VMware should be part of EMC or not (their backhand way of bringing up the whole Diane Greene thing…he didn’t fall for it).
Wait for it…wait for it…we have been waiting for it. VMware announced plans to launch a free version of its ESXI hypervisor starting July 28. I have to question the timing on this one. Why didn’t they do this before Hyper-v came out and try to at least undercut the Microsoft announcement? VMware is and should be the leader in this space but they act like they’re playing from behind. And to Wall Street, perception counts for a lot.
Surprisingly, there hasn’t been a lot of coverage after the June 2008 OMB mandate on IPv6 readiness. But one interesting follow-up, a feature is set to be added to IPv6 which the upgrade was supposed to eliminate. One of the design goals for IPv6 was that it would rid the Internet of network address translation (NAT), gateways that match increasingly scarce public IPv4 addresses with private IPv4 addresses used inside corporations, government agencies and other organizations. NAT adds complexity and cost, but due to the length of time it’s taken to migrate from IPv4 to IPv6, engineers may create special NAT devices to translate between IPv4-only and IPv6-only hosts and hopefully nudge along the transition to IPv6. IEEE is all set to meet on this topic later this month.
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