November 21st, 2009

Frugal Friday: Joblessness, DROID, Chrome OS, Richard Stallman, V.i. labs

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 12:18 pm

Categories: Business, Linux, Open Source, Personal Technology, Podcast, Security, Software Infrastructure

Tags: Lab, Richard Stallman, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the dwindling IT employment landscape, my experiences with the Motorola/Verizon DROID, the Google Chrome OS developer code release, Ken’s recent interview with Richard Stallman, and we interview Victor DeMarines of V.i. labs, the anti-piracy and software protection company.

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November 5th, 2009

Frugal Friday: Verizon DROID, Intel Antitrust, V-Block, Oracle/EU, ICCA

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 9:20 pm

Categories: Business, Enterprise Computing, Linux, Podcast

Tags: Antitrust, Verizon Communications Inc., Intel Corp., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Jason Perlow

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the new Verizon DROID smartphone, the recent antitrust charges filed against Intel by the New York Attorney General, the new V-Block data center solution joint offering between VMWare, CISCO and EMC, the Oracle/Sun merger delays by the European Union, and have an entertaining and nostalgic conversation with Independent Computer Consultants Association founder Steve Epner about the early days of computing and learn about the ICCA’s upcoming annual conference in San Francisco on November 13-15th, 2009.

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October 20th, 2009

EvriChart: A Linux Success Story

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 6:53 pm

Categories: Business, Desktop, Enterprise Computing, Free operating systems, Hardware Infrastructure, Linux, Open Source, Podcast, Security, Server, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology

Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems

Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company’s Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees’ 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure.

Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, Inc.

I had the pleasure of speaking to Tony Maro, who is CIO and an owning partner in EvriChart, a medical records management company based out of White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

EvriChart had some unique requirements which included replacing a Windows-based line-of-business application for document management that would not scale with the continuing growth of their business. By migrating to a Linux/Open Source-based Web application, it paved the way for full desktop Linux adoption at his company. I asked Tony to summarize his experience so that I could share it with you in the hopes that you might gain some valuable insight from the process he had to go through.

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October 9th, 2009

Frugal Friday: The Software of Stallman, Psystar/Apple, Parallels

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 7:37 pm

Categories: Apple, Desktop, Enterprise Computing, Free operating systems, General, Hardware Infrastructure, Linux, Open Source, Podcast, Server, Software Infrastructure, Virtualization

Tags: Software, Apple Inc., Psystar, Podcasts, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Internet

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss Ken’s interview with Richard Stallman, Psystar’s newly announced OEM Licensing program for Mac Cloning, the greater implications of hardware and software vendor tie-in, and talk with Jamison Moore of Parallels, the virtualization company.

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Disclaimer: The postings and opinions expressed in this podcast are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM’s positions, strategies or opinions.

October 6th, 2009

Frugal Tech Show with Altus CEO Ted Cocheu

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 10:25 am

Categories: Business, Enterprise Computing, Podcast, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology

Tags: CEO, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I talk with Ted Cocheu, CEO of Altus, which provides planning, recording, post-production and SAAS deployment of video content for trade shows and large enterprises.

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October 2nd, 2009

Frugal Friday: Groklaw v. Jason Perlow, Ubuntu Karmic Koala, Chrome OS in China, BlackBerry Service Termination, Kickfire 3000 Appliance

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 5:59 pm

Categories: Business, Enterprise Computing, Hardware Infrastructure, Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Personal Technology, Podcast, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology

Tags: Ubuntu, Termination, Jason Perlow, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware

Related Podcast:May 22nd, 2009 Interview with Bruce Armstrong

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss Groklaw’s response to my condemnation of Richard Stallman’s attack on Miguel de Icaza, The new Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 beta, Chinese adoption of Chrome OS, my loss of BlackBerry service, and talk to returning guest Bruce Armstrong, CEO of Kickfire, about the company’s new 3000 Series enterprise appliance and version 1.5 software release.

Click Here to listen to the October 2, 2009 Frugal Tech Show Podcast.

September 25th, 2009

Frugal Friday: Twitter, Social Networking, Open Source and Women, RMS vs. MDI, Oracle, CentOS

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 6:47 pm

Categories: Business, Enterprise Computing, Free operating systems, Linux, Open Source, Podcast, Server, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology

Tags: Oracle Corp., Women, Network, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services, Gender And Diversity, Linux, Social Networking, Open Source, Digital Rights Management (DRM)

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the recent $100M VC investment in Twitter, the perils of Social Networking, the lack of sensitivity towards women in the Linux and Open Source community, Richard M. Stallman vs. Miguel de Icaza, Larry Ellison and his plans for the new Oracle and talk with Karanbir Singh, Project Lead for CentOS, the RHEL-compatible Community Enterprise Operating System Linux distribution.

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September 11th, 2009

Frugal Friday: Barbecue! Apple 2009 iPod refresh, CodePlex Foundation, Microsoft Best Buy Shenanigans, Schooner Information Technology

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 7:28 pm

Categories: Apple, Business, Enterprise Computing, Hardware Infrastructure, Microsoft, Networking, Personal Technology, Podcast, Server, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Schooner Information Technology, Microsoft Windows 7, Podcasts, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I talk about the joys of Carolina and Texas Barbecue, the Fall 2009 Apple iPod launch event, the new Microsoft-created CodePlex Foundation, the recent exposure of Microsoft’s Best Buy 2009 retail marketing plans for Windows 7 and speak with Dr. John Busch, Co-Founder of Schooner Information Technology, the memcached and MySQL acceleration appliance company.

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September 4th, 2009

Frugal Friday: Media Outrageousness, Snow Leopard Woes, Mac Virtualization, VMWorld 2009, EU kiboshes Oracle/Sun, Brocade

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 7:15 pm

Categories: Apple, Business, Enterprise Computing, Hardware Infrastructure, Networking, Podcast, Server, Software Infrastructure, VMWare, Virtualization

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Oracle Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Media, European Union, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Server Virtualization

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I discuss the new “outrageous” trend in media and blogging, problems with the Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 upgrade, Mac Server virtualization, the European Union temporarily halting the Oracle/Sun Merger, reduced attendance at VMWorld 2009, and talk with Harry Petty, Vice President of Marketing for Brocade, the Ethernet/LAN and SAN switching solutions company.

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August 31st, 2009

Frugal Tech Show: Speaking with Centrify at VMWorld 2009

Posted by Jason Perlow @ 1:50 pm

Categories: Business, Enterprise Computing, General, Podcast, Server, Software Infrastructure, VMWare, Virtualization

Tags: Security, Centrify, Survey, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Jason Perlow

Ken Hess and I talk to Frank Cabri of Centrify, which recently conducted a survey of 500 large businesses which use virtualization in their enterprise. The full results of the study, of which Centrify published today on their web site yielded some interesting and unexepected data:

Virtualization Market Dynamics: The survey results showed that server virtualization platforms are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and they reflect the diversity of OSes in the physical server environments. 58% of the respondent organizations have Hypervisors from more than one vendor. They are deploying bare-metal hypervisors from vendors such as VMware and Citrix while, in parallel, they leverage virtualization technology built into the latest AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and Windows operating systems. Over 24% of virtualized environments have no VMware at all and are using virtualized using solutions from Microsoft, IBM, Citrix, Sun, HP, and others exclusively and in combinations.

Centrify’s study polled 30,000 enterprise customers, of which 500 returned complete survey results.

Security concerns: The respondents were forthcoming about their security concerns. Though they were implementing a range of security controls, they were not confident about whether they had complete control of the security of their virtual systems.  According to the respondents, security, compliance and operational issues were the top three concerns. 70% believed they had orphan accounts on UNIX/Linux, 44% shared root passwords, 55% were unsure about how well they managed privileged user accounts. Overall, concern about security was the leading reason (46%) that virtualization could be slowed. As the CSO of an enterprise with thousands of servers and more than 80,000 people noted in one of his responses, “We are playing catch-up, cost drivers pushed virtualization without [us] properly looking at [the] security impact.”

Download: Centrify_Virtualization_Survey_Detail_Responses (PDF)

Download: Centrify_Survey_Summary_Presentation (PDF)

Click here to Listen to the VMWorld Frugal Tech Show Podcast with Frank Cabri of Centrify, Inc.