OSCON comes to a close while System Administrators are celebrated
Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller posted a CloudStatus demo video and interview with engineer Jon Travis.
Stacey Higginbotham writes about VC’s increasing interest in the cloud, mentioning Hyperic as an option for monitoring

Denise Dubie highlights today’s Sys Admin holiday
Dan Kusnetzky ponders on the question, “If Xen and KVM [...]

On this most hallowed and revered holiday, we decided to salute the unsung and often unwashed heroes of IT the only way we know how… by poking a little fun at the Real Men of Geekness.
So, here’s to you, Mr. Underappreciated Sys Admin Guy (or Gal).

 

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OSCON news continues…But the “Spam King” is not forgotten
Penny stock “Spam King” flees prison by foot, deciding he had had enough of his stay
Tim O’Reilly’s speech at OSCON determines that the future must be “open,” in particular with Cloud Computing, Open Web and Mobile
Serdar Yegulalp of InformationWeek interviews Jim Zemlin of the Linux [...]

Lots of news coming out of OSCON today, but we’ll start HyperLINKS with some additional S3 outage coverage and a CloudStatus reference.
Andrea James of the Seattle Post Intelligencer puts in her two cents about the S3 outage, and even includes quotes from Hyperic’s Jon Travis
In more S3 outage news, Fortune’s Michal Lev-Ram talks about the [...]

Tuesday’s HyperLINKS…OUCH!
Tarus at OpenNMS talks about Dave Hustace’s new project, OUCH to be revealed at LinuxWorld. OUCH stands for OpenNMS-Ubuntu-Concursive-Hyperic <grin>
TechCrunch is planning to use open source to create their own web tablet device, essentially creating a source similar to a desktop
Jack M. Germain writes about the security concerns facing VMs

Big outages means big news! Yesterday’s Amazon S3 outage is continuing to make headlines today.
Richard MacManus of Read Write Web reveals the many consequences of Amazon’s S3 downtime and raises the question of security within the cloud
In a special report on virtualization, Gartner says virtualization is the highest-impact issue changing infrastructure and operations through [...]

At 8:46 PDT this morning, CloudStatus reported that several of the AWS services were experiencing outages. Amazon posted that they were aware of the issue at 9:05 PDT on status.aws.amazon.com.
We saw internal server errors coming from the majority of our S3 and SQS monitoring agents. In addition, we experienced other problems with EC2 [...]

Friday’s HyperLINKS…Cloud computing is questioned but also praised as a new service to the military
Richard Martin writes about the control over the cloud…how secure is corporate data when it is managed by an unknown virtual source?
Om Malik reminds us that although we survived the dot-com bust in Silicon Valley, we should be aware of [...]

In HyperLINKS today…San Francisco computer hacker causes chaos for administrators, while cloud coverage continues to float on the web
Distressed San Francisco network administrator pleads “not guilty” to computer tampering, an incident that will cost $250,000 to repair
Bruce Guptill and William S. McNee write about the evolution of SaaS and cloud computing
Phil Wainewright questions [...]

Hump Day HyperLINKS bring CloudStatus interviews and discussion of virtualization as mainstream
Tom Sullivan of InfoWorld questions whether single-vendor open source is getting too risky

Paolo Del Nibletto speaks with Forrester Research Analyst Frank Gillett about virtualization evolving into a mainstream market
Robin Miller of Linux.com and Slashdot  interviews our very own Jon Travis on CloudStatus