Bob Plankers

Bob Plankers is a man who wears many hats. In his professional career he has spent three decades leading teams that design, build, operate, and talk about reliable, secure, and compliant IT infrastructures, both in the public sector and in the high tech industry. He currently focuses on applied security, compliance, and operational resilience for virtualization and cloud platforms.

links for 2008-07-09

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Six reasons Hyper-V will surpass VMware within 5 years — Server Virtualization Blog Articles like this drive me nuts, because they assume that one company will do nothing over the next five years and let itself get run over by Microsoft. Here’s a tip: think Linux. MS isn’t ever going to really support non-Windows OSes like VMware does. Southwest Airlines’ Seven Secrets for Success Standardization is a big key. Good lesson for sysadmins, too. rc3.org — The curse of arrogance Short commentary on the attitude of people who idolize Hans Reiser, as well as many in technology that I’ve worked with. I agree with Mr. Colburn. I tell you that when civilization ends I’ll be in my tree stand watching …

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links for 2008-07-08

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Virtualize This: VMware CEO Out, Stock Tanks, Big Revenue Miss – GigaOM It’s fairly common for a founder to get replaced as CEO when the company grows. And it’s obvious, especially to VMware customers, that the company has had some growing pains. EMC stock has taken a beating because of VMware. This isn’t unexpected.

VMware CEO Shake Up Thoughts

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I’ve been reading some of the coverage of the Diane Greene/Paul Maritz swap today, as well as the new revenue projections. I first caught Om Malik’s take, read Bernd Harzog’s comments on Paul Maritz, and then went from Adam Lashinsky’s blog post to his October 2007 Fortune article on Greene. Something there caught my eye (in bold): Tucci chairs VMware’s board, which is stacked with EMC people; of the six members, three are current or former EMC executives and two are EMC directors. (Greene is the sixth.) Greene appears bemused she has stayed on; as her husband points out, “If you look at her résumé, this is far longer than any other job she has ever held.” Her contract, signed …

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I Have A Cunning Plan

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Now that we can buy our own top level domains, let’s all band together and get .sucks or something. This is going to be freaking chaos.

links for 2008-07-07

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Weight Watchers Versus Fitness Centers | Science Blog Short story shorter: Weight Watchers participants lost lean tissue, not fat, and that’s not good. “What your body is made of is more important than what you weigh.” Red Hat intros VMware hypervisor alternative based on KVM Late commentary here, but as a VMware user I’m glad Red Hat sees Citrix as being an opponent, not a partner.

!(I Heart Dongles)

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A post over at vinf.net about unsupported USB devices appearing after using the VMware Converter reminds me that I’ve been meaning to complain about something[0]: Dongles mean that I can’t virtualize your software. If you’re a software developer and you think that you can protect your software from piracy by using a hardware-based protection scheme please realize this: If I can’t virtualize your software it’s likely that I’m not going to buy it. Just ask yourself: will what I’m doing work in a virtual machine? If the answer isn’t a definite ‘yes’ then you’re doing it wrong. Virtualization is here to stay, so invest in your future and figure it out, people. ———————— [0] Like me complaining about something is …

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Never Had a Text Message Wrong Number Before

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“u r makin me miserable” appears on my iPhone, from some unknown cell phone number. “I’m sorry about that. Who is this?” I probably make a lot of people miserable, so I figured I’d be polite. “u deleted my #?” “Perhaps it didn’t get copied when I changed phones.” Yes, I text back in full sentences. That’s my thing. “ur killin me” “I’m sorry you feel that way. Are you sure I’m the right person?” “how can u say that 2 me” …five minutes passes… “omg im sorry feel like an idiot i dont no u got the # wrong” “I’m just relieved it isn’t me making you unhappy. Hope everything works out.” Makes me wonder, though, what the English …

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links for 2008-07-05

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Bay Area glider makes record-breaking flight to Mexico – Santa Cruz Sentinel Holy crap, that’s freaking cool. It Has Begun! iPhone Line Forms At NYC Apple Store (AAPL) Dear people in line, you are idiots. My opinion, of course, but it’s a freaking week. Take advantage of undocumented SQL Server iteration procedures | Servers and Storage | TechRepublic.com This is also moronic — using undocumented procedures is a great way to have all your stuff break sometime. rc3.org — Ethics on a Web where links are currency I like the compromise of altering the post but not deleting it entirely. That’s what I do, even though it is my blog and my content. I don’t want to screw the folks …

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Windows XP, We'll Miss You

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Microsoft stopped selling Windows XP Professional and Home yesterday. For as much as people complained about XP in the beginning it evolved into an OS that was solid and consistent. Sure, Vista has succeeded XP in just about every area, but Vista is a design and usability nightmare. The Network control panels are a great example of the half-assedness of Vista. Especially anything having to do with IPv6. Or, seen another way, I find it a lot more difficult to talk my mother through things on her computer now that she’s running Vista. Even the six different ways to shut a Vista machine down are confusing, and how hard is that to do right? Goodbye, old friend. Our seven years …

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Perils of Large Monitors

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You’d think someone would have come up with a solution to this by now: Perhaps the solution is, instead of splitting the primary monitor, split the SECONDARY monitor and put the image there. Having not messed with big displays like this I have no idea, but it seems like there isn’t a lot of thought going into the screen many thousands of people are looking at. I saw that at Summerfest in Milwaukee yesterday. I was over there to see Michael Franti & Spearhead, as well as Jack’s Mannequin. As a lighting designer I tend to watch the lights during shows, and the addition of a hazer to the stages, and a bunch more moving lights, makes for a good …

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