Comments on: The datacenter as a programmable entity http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/565 IT management in a changing IT world Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » IT automation: the seven roads to management middleware http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/565#comment-74001 William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » IT automation: the seven roads to management middleware Wed, 20 May 2009 08:53:00 +0000 http://stage.vambenepe.com/?p=565#comment-74001 [...] the background, vocabulary and assumptions of the different solutions. This list cuts across the declarative versus procedural debate (#1 is clearly procedural, #3 is clearly declarative, the others could go either [...] [...] the background, vocabulary and assumptions of the different solutions. This list cuts across the declarative versus procedural debate (#1 is clearly procedural, #3 is clearly declarative, the others could go either [...]

]]> By: William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » Exploring “IT management in a changing IT world” http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/565#comment-64374 William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » Exploring “IT management in a changing IT world” Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:13:10 +0000 http://stage.vambenepe.com/?p=565#comment-64374 [...] infrastructure) and turn that mind-boggling complexity into a manageable system that can be programmed to deliver applications (Cisco recently called it “Unified Computing”; HP, IBM and [...] [...] infrastructure) and turn that mind-boggling complexity into a manageable system that can be programmed to deliver applications (Cisco recently called it “Unified Computing”; HP, IBM and [...]

]]> By: Matt Simmons http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/565#comment-62921 Matt Simmons Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:15:55 +0000 http://stage.vambenepe.com/?p=565#comment-62921 @Stu I think "the cloud" is the abstraction of everything that your application depends on. Is it on a single server or a cluster? Doesn't matter with the cloud. I'd say another name for it might be "the black box", but that doesn't have the same ring, or look as good in visio ;-) @Stu

I think “the cloud” is the abstraction of everything that your application depends on. Is it on a single server or a cluster? Doesn’t matter with the cloud.

I’d say another name for it might be “the black box”, but that doesn’t have the same ring, or look as good in visio ;-)

]]> By: Stu http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/565#comment-62912 Stu Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:52:36 +0000 http://stage.vambenepe.com/?p=565#comment-62912 For all the debate about what "Cloud" means, this seems to be really what it is about -- enabling programmable IT, with a mix of declarative and imperative constructs. You could call that SOA, or WOO, or Programming the Datacentre, depending on your perspective. For all the debate about what “Cloud” means, this seems to be really what it is about — enabling programmable IT, with a mix of declarative and imperative constructs. You could call that SOA, or WOO, or Programming the Datacentre, depending on your perspective.

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