Check out this new report on Phurnace, the cloud, and automation by Julie Craig of EMA (Enterprise Management Associates).
A few of the key points made in the brief include:
The key to Cloud success is going to be your management tooling. Doesn’t matter how fast you can spin up images if it still takes you three weeks to deploy your application.
Infrastructure independence is key: your strategy for the Cloud has to take into account bridging the gap from the Cloud to on-premises infrastructure.
This video is the first of a series we will be doing on Phurnace and other cool stuff that relates to us. At the end of each episode we plan to burn something up. Do you have a great idea of something to burn? Leave me a comment here and we will try to get it into a video.
I and a few other folks from Phurnace attended the Portal Excellence Conference in San Diego this week. Some quick thoughts from the show:
Insurance and Banking seemed to be the biggest verticals represented at the show.
There were quite a few folks there that weren’t current Portal customers, but were considering migrating from another platform to WebSphere Portal. The most common reason they gave was nervousness about all the recent consolidation in the Portal space (i.e., Oracle acquiring BEA, OpenText acquiring Vignette, etc.)
More talk about WCM (IBM Web Content Management) than in prior years. WCM seems to be catching on with the WAS Portal customer space.
IBM is an excellent host at these events. Thanks guys! We had a good time.
Yesterday, the leading tech analyst, The 451 Group, published a report on Phurnace. They talk quite a bit about how Phurnace is starting to look like a “cloud foundry”. It is a great report that gives their insights after they were briefed on some of our upcoming product enhancements (Phurnace 4.0 and cloud targeted products).
One of the most interesting lines in the report is this: “It is not yet clear how clouds will be used in the enterprise, but it is likely they will underpin J2EE applications. If that does turn out to be true, the sheer scale and speed of elastic cloud deployments will preclude hand-coded provisioning. Something like Phurnace Deliver will be required.”
We are gearing up for a great show next week at the IBM Portal Excellence Conference in San Diego. If you are headed to the show, please stop by our session on Monday from 4:30 - 5:30PM PT in the Marina 5 Ballroom and/or visit us at Booth 13.
Also, we put together a quick video of the Greatest Moments in Software History. Have a look!
Today I had lunch with Duane Tharp from StreamStep. Duane is a software technology leader and has had great success with NetSuite, BetweenMarkets (acquired by Inovis) and mValent (acquired by Oracle), which he cofounded with his current cofounder, Clyde Logue.
StreamStep automates and optimizes all aspects of release management. But, it’s not just limited to pushing code out the door. They can also help you with server management. Basically, if you’re using an Excel spreadsheet and hacked together scripts, you need StreamStep.
They just formed a partnership with BMC and are integrated with BMC BladeLogic for Application Release Management. They’ve also partnered with Splunk to allow customers to easily search StreamStep data. Sounds like you can now answer the question “What did we deploy last Thursday?” without getting into a war room.
So, please check them out and let us know what you think in the comments below.
