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'Incredible India' indeed!

The Insider — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:19:00 GMT

Anyone seduced by those ‘Incredible India’ advertisements that ply the TV airwaves around the world may be lulled into a false sense of security, much the same as 122 2G spectrum license bidders were. The color, the vibrancy, the uniqueness of India that is used to attract tourists soon gives way to squalor, poverty, dirt and grime that is the real India. Those 122 license holders that have now been stripped naked and left with no 2G licenses or compensation are the victims of an inept...(read more)

Cloud Myth #5: Clouds Require Virtualization

Dave Roberts — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:59:59 GMT

Everywhere I look, I see clouds and virtualization mentioned together. They seem to be the peanut butter and jelly of the technology world. Certainly, clouds and virtualization taste good together, but surely we can separate them, right? Can you build a cloud without virtualization? Does peanut butter taste good without jelly? The short answer is, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry......(read more)

Feeling phantom vibrations?

The Insider — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:40:00 GMT

Do you unconsciously look at your smartphone screen even though nothing has happened to prompt the action? Do you feel ‘phantom’ vibrations emanating from your purse or pocket that make you grab for the phone only to find, again, that nothing is happening? Oh, oh – according to the British Psychological Society’s Division of Occupational Psychology, you could be suffering from ‘smartphone addiction!’ The whole idea that smartphones are a tool to help manage workloads...(read more)

Hamming It Up in Madrid

John Reilly — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:15:00 GMT

In Madrid last week, attending Action Week. I’m partial to ham and sausage. And if you are, too, then keep reading. If not, you can skip my culinary adventures in the next paragraph and continue with those that follow.

My food adventure began with quite a variety of chorizo (dry sausage in this case) that was spread before me during our lunches at the NH Hotel, the venue for Action Week. I thought I was in heaven. Here is a link to those of you who share my delight in eating this treat…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorizo. One night I enjoyed dry-cured ham leg with a pal at a small bar off the beaten path…http://hamlovers.com/product/119/972/Cinco_Jotas_jamon_iberico_de_bellota. Not ending there, another night I had rigatoni with shredded 5J ham and porcini mushroom cream sauce…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%C3%B3n_serrano Oh my! To finish, on the way home I enjoyed some small, thin chorizo at the Iberia lounge in the Madrid airport.

There was quite a variety of interest in the Information Framework (SID) at Action Week. It started with a SID roundtable on Monday as part of the Frameworx spotlight. With me facilitating, attendees offered their opinions on what parts of the SID should be further developed. A lot of interest was expressed areas such as assets, a missing component of the SID, loyalty programs, also missing, and contact/lead/prospect, an undeveloped part of the SID. During project team meetings, discussions ranged from re-starting work on external plant, working on catalog management, informal chats about fraud, mapping SID to the other frameworks, and on and on. More can be found in the notes prepared and posted by the various project teams on the TM Forum community. Volunteers to participate in our work are always welcome!

The new release of the SID, due out as part of Frameworx 12 in May, is also variety-filled. It includes an initial capacity model, the introduction of a dispute group of entities (ABE), updates to the Performance ABE, development of the Resource Trouble (Alarm) ABE, users and roles they play, and workforce. Based on the level of interest and work at Action Week, SID 12.5 will be filled with even more.

As part of SID 12, we’ll also be making a transition from using Rational Software Modeler to Rational Software Architect. One thing to keep in mind about this is that once a model is used in RSA it cannot be used in RSM, as the models are not backward compatible.

Off to Management World Asia in Singapore next week. Look for some new culinary adventures and such the week after.

Data privacy laws - like a cat chasing its own tail

The Insider — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:20:00 GMT

The European Commission last week suggested some serious reforms to data protection laws last that could have implications for everyone that uses the Internet or provides services over the Internet, including CSPs. For a start, companies operating over the Internet will have to seek explicit consent from users if they plan to use data about them, including when it is being collected, how long it will be stored, and for what purpose it is being used for. (Sounds a bit like Google’s new privacy...(read more)

Shift Your Cloud to the Fast Path

Dave Roberts — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:41:41 GMT

The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry......(read more)

Property, diamonds, gold or spectrum?

The Insider — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:05:00 GMT

A recent Computerworld article opened up with the provocative statement that wireless bandwidth is like land in Manhattan — it’s extremely valuable because they’re not making more of it. No kidding. That probably explains why it has become such a premium commodity. Until new spectrum can be created (who knows what the future holds there) or existing spectrum can be better utilized, its value, like scarce metals, will continue to rise – some even say, skyrocket. Maybe that’s...(read more)

Public vs. Private Clouds: A Senseless Controversy

Dave Roberts — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:58:57 GMT

UPDATE Jan 26, 2012: Added governance to the list of forces driving private clouds. This year, I was asked to chair the Private Clouds track at Cloud Connect. Over the past couple weeks, I have been working to nail down all the last little details and get everything headed in the right direction before the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry......(read more)

Killing crime killing the cloud

The Insider — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:10:00 GMT

Have you been following the news about Megaupload? Do you know what it is, and even if you do, would you admit it? You see, it is/was one of the world’s largest file sharing sites and it was closed down by US authorities because it was deemed to have been violating federal piracy laws. The US Justice Department, through the FBI, has even managed to arrest key executives residing in New Zealand and seven other countries, and there are distinct fears that this could be just the beginning of an...(read more)

Bearish on TOSCA

Dave Roberts — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:09:02 GMT

Today seems like OASIS TOSCA day in my world. First thing this morning, Sam Johnston (@samj) Tweeted some suspicion towards TOSCA. Ben Kepes (@benkepes) also blogged his thoughts about TOSCA. I sent Sam a quick “+1″ reply this morning (@sandhillstrat), but I wanted to weight in with my thoughts in blog form as well. Fundamentally, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry......(read more)