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posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 3:14 PM
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Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the DevCentral Weekly Roundtable Podcast! A weekly recap of the interesting things that have been going on within the DevCentral community.
Hosts: Colin Walker, Deb Allen, Don Mac Vittie, Jeff Browning, and Joe Pruitt
Podcast Contents:
- Jeff introduces the gang. Colin points out how folks have been excited about new iRule Editor with support of Admin Partitions. Jeff talks about the new Open Performance Testing Initiative section of DevCentral. The team calls out for vendors to participate and for users to submit their comments and ideas about the performance test setup. Joe plugs his video tutorial on the admin partition support and his blog post about using FirePass to help publish it. Just alludes to an upcoming release of the FirePass Client API SDK. Colin recaps his use of FirePass from a train. Just talks about the new iTunes Podcasts for Video based Tech Tips as well as how this podcast got someone to come work for F5. If there are any iPhone users out there listening to this on their iPhone, let us know. Jeff comments awesome an iPhone can be for wardriving. Don says Lori's latest blog post is good reading.
- Then the group talks about challenges with the DataCenter of 2010 (3 years may seem like a short time, but it's a long time in tech years). Jeff points that power usage by DataCenters is larger than all of TV's in the US. Colin points out that Power and Energy consumption will be a primary factor and things that companies are physically locating closer to power sources like dams due to lower costs.
- Jeff is facinated with the issues of "Digital Garbage". Colin moves that into blade servers and their role in SOA and clustered computing. Jeff recaps an interesting story about a customers experience on building a grid infrastructure. Deb and Don then wrestle to get a word in edgewise. Deb points that being "Hands-on" in a Data Center is becoming a thing of the past. She talks about Enterprise Manager in that situation. Jeff follows that up with trends in Data Center staffing and Colin explains why automation with technologies like iControl are imperative to handle the scale of these new Data Centers and the virtualization of services. Don points out that software companies are going to have to revise their pricing models to allow for these large amounts of scaling or else open source alternatives will starting being more in play.
- Jeff finishes with a reference to an upcoming online survey - be on the look out and please pass your thoughts along to us in the forums.
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Technorati Tags: DevCentral, DataCenter, 2010, Performance, Partitions, Video Tutorial, FirePass, Train, Podcast, iTunes, F5, iPhone, Wardriving, Power Consumption, TVs, Digital Garbage, Blade Servers, SOA, Clustered Computing, Enterprise Manager, iControl, Virtualization
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