Cloud Blogging With Zenoss
February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
I have been writing guest posts for Zenoss’ blog for about nine months. For the most part I focus on cloud-centric topics like Automatic Provisioning, Service Assurance and most recently, DevOps. Zenoss calls itself The Cloud Management Company, describing its offerings as such: Zenoss was founded in 2005 to address the challenges of operating and […]
On Losing a Gem
January 31, 2012 | 1 Comment
On Sunday, I lost one of my best Match Game Super Match players and one of my favorite people. My friend Damien Bona, the only player to answer Jim Brady for: died of complications from cardiac arrest, just a couple of months before his 57th birthday. If you were defining “heart” as something more than […]
Looking at Match Game ‘7x, Part 2: Passing Through the Future
January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments
Not surprisingly, the official $500 response for: was “Diamond Ring,” an evergreen answer if there ever was one. According to Gemnation and a couple of other sources, the De Beers catchphrase, “A diamond is forever,” has been around since Frances Gerety of ad agency N.W. Ayer & Son launched it in 1947. That was 65 […]
‘Variety’ Clips From CES 2012
January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
I had two articles in Variety earlier this month. In its “Consumer Electronics Show 2012” special section, I wrote UltraViolet: The story so far. In it, I describe UltraViolet (in brief, it’s a cloud-based digital locker for movies and TV shows that all the MPAA studios, except Disney, is promoting as a means to make […]
