Tuesday Apr 17, 2007
A fifteen-year old boy in America was incarcerated for twelve days, wrongly accused of making a hoax bomb threat - because his school had forgotten that the clocks had gone forward . . . Unfortunately, the school forgot that the clocks had switched to Daylight Saving Time that morning. The time stamps left on the hotline were adjusted by an hour after Day Light Savings causing Webb's call to be logged as the same time the bomb threat was placed. Webb, who's never even had a detention in his life, had actually made his call an hour before the bomb threat was placed.
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I'm proud to say that our Sun Connection customers applied patches to thousands of systems and avoided the potential horrors of the Day Light Savings bug. If only little Cody's school used Sun Connection to do the same, all of this could have been avoided.
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Friday Mar 16, 2007
I've been spending a lot of time this week thinking about open source and systems management. I think there is a tremendous opportunity for Sun to play a role in this space and help drive the development of a unified open platform. I think there are a number of innovative offerings in the open source space, but the solutions I've seen don't necessarily have the scale and feature breadth to support a broad range of customers (from start-up to enterprise).
The pickle facing companies that have the breadth and scale to offer a comprehensive systems management platform is that the offerings are typically closed, fragmented and difficult to deploy -- three traits that don't lend very well towards building volume and community. In my mind whoever can develop an offering that is open, unified, scalable, easy to deploy, and has features that are "good enough" will have a tremendous opportunity to build a large community and drive volume.
Check out the map below to see the growing list of open source systems management supporters at the Open Management Consortium. Click on the map to check out there site and membership.
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Sunday Mar 11, 2007
This is my first official blog entry of what I hope to be many.
For those that don't know me, I'm a software marketing wonk working in Sun's Connected Systems Network team. CSN (which always makes me think of Crosby, Stills & Nash) is a newly formed group that consists of Sun's systems management software including Sun Connection, N1 System Manager, N1 Service Provisioning System and Sun Management Center. I've been working on this portfolio of products since September and as I learn more and more I become increasingly excited about the opportunity to do something innovative and industry changing for our customers.
An area that I am particularly interested is the concept of Systems Management 2.0. Michael Coté from Red Monk has an interesting blog entry and draft presentation that he posted back in Septemeber that compares Systems Management 2.0 companies to "The Big 4." I love the focus on collaborative systems management. I've been spending a lot fo time thinking about how to blend the systems management 2.0 focus of collaboration and accessibility with the enterprise focus of scale and breadth. To do this, I've been trying to think less like a traditional systems management vendor and more like a consumer-oriented web 2.0 company such as Flickr Maps. Jonathan discussed in his blog our first experiment to adopt some web 2.0 concepts to the systems management space with our geotagged world map of registered Solaris deployments. Imagine if customers had access to this to navigate to a deeper level of detail regarding their datacenters or if they could use this for reporting to their internal management?
What other great services are out there that you think should be adapted to the systems management space?
Look forward to the responses!
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