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OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now

“software-defined washing” - IT leaders convene on London for the UK’s first software-defined conference

Red Hat Plays Hardball on OpenStack Software

In many ways, Neutron’s failure and planned rebirth are a metaphor for OpenStack as a whole, with the tech promising too much at the start, becoming overly dependent on vendors, and only being fixed when paying punters started to confront its weaknesses. As the OpenStack collective learn these lessons the hope is that they will run into fewer errors, and perhaps make good on their plan to provide a viable cloud operating system to telcos and other businesses.

Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager

Why the Housing Bubble Tanked the Economy And the Tech Bubble Didn’t

Create a universe within your show Your universe should include a theme song, phrases you like to use, segments, anything recurring. Differentiate your show. This signals your values and has the benefit of giving your audience a fun way to communicate with you and with each other. The best shows do this organically. This whole idea is how we got “Baba Booey.” Other than finding your voice (my last tip on podcasting), that’s the most important part, long term.

I’m constantly shocked at how poor most people are ar scheduling meetings. There’s often simple things like “use the free/busy function” that you have to remind people about. Anyhow, there’s some good tips here if you’re someone who does all their meeting scheduling in plain text (read: you need help!), e.g.: Instead, when I’m setting a meeting with a single person, I write and say, “Let’s have lunch together. How about next Wednesday at Cardiac’s House of Cheese at 11:45AM?

Goodbye HANA daddy, assorted cloud bods: SAP gets corporate

It’s Beta Time For CoreOS, The Linux Distro For Massive Server Deployments