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 ITPS198: News Roundup | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:46

Executive Summary: We're taking a look at some of the latest IT Pro news making the rounds this week. Google wants to bring more fiber to cities in the US. The FCC warns Marriott to stop blocking WiFi Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 39:51   IT Pro News: NSA is not the only mass telephone surveillance org Justice Dept/DEA is growing its realtime nation-wide vehicle tracking db Google Fiber expands to additional locations Google engineer states that 61% of Android units are not a viable option to patch US FCC warns WiFi blockers like Marriott Time to patch all RHEL and variants for glibc critical bug Cisco ONE and its cloud software push Microsoft news roundup: Microsoft buys into R for data announces PowerBI to be free Cloud business is way up Revenue up Stock is down      

 ITPS197: Windows 10 Announcements | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:43

Executive Summary: We recap all the announcements from Microsoft at their big Windows 10 event this week.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 41:48       IT Pro News: Hard drive reliability data has been refreshed Oracle releases patches for 170 security issues       IT Pro Main Topic: Windows Announcements   The Microsoft  Jan 2015 announcement Windows 10 is coming, with better desktop and touch or type awareness Windows scales across many screen sizes Upgrade directly from Windows 7 New browser coming, and it is separate from IE Enterprise customers will still pay for Software Assurance Windows 10 now in an integrated Surface Hub for collaboration Verge highlights the Microsoft announcements, from consumer perspective too   Enterprise customers may not be interested in: Windows Phone 10 Cortana for voice search Xbox Music on OneDrive Xbox gaming experience across devices HoloLens   Office 2016 is coming too Touch first, mobile first features Bing integrated search now called “universal apps” And the April developer conference called Build sold out in a hour     Event Calendar: We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month. Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know!          

 ITPS196: Mainframe | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 25:27

Executive Summary: Long live the mainframe! IBM has announced a power-packed new model aimed at your mobile needs. Do you consider them a viable option in your enterprise? Do you have the right Ops skills to support them?     Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 25:30         IT Pro News: Facebook at Work is now available Google and Microsoft tussle over disclosures Amazon marketing fails with C4 servers that will blow up More datacenter space is being leased US President Obama asks FCC to improve 25Mb broadband     IT Pro Main Topic: Don’t we love mainframes?   z13, the mainframe for mobile vintage IBM mainframe commercial for ebusiness The IBM press release for z13 amd the z13 homepage Highlights from the IBM VP of z, Mike Perera modernization, size, power, reliability 10TB RAM, 22nm chips at 5GHz, 100s of cores, each twice as fast as Intel cores,  30-50% faster Java execution, response time 70% faster, encryption twice as fast, run 8000 VMs REST APIs and JSON support built-in with API called Zos Connect for devs to easily access services on the mainframe support C and Java and Node.js and still PL1 and COBOL DB2 large scale support and Hadoop supports zOS and Linux and OpenStack all in combinations TCO one third to two thirds lower than Intel x86 servers or cloud designed process 2.5 billion transactions a day, or about one hundred Cyber Mondays. If you still have a mainframe, is it valuable? If you are all-in for the cloud, do you have an exit strategy, even with OpenStack? Is the Intel based datacenter design still affordable, well engineered?     Event Calendar: Microsoft Ignite is in Chicago, IL from May 4-8 Cisco Live US is in San Diego, CA from June 7-11. Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know!     IT Pro Bookshelf: What happened with the Amazon phone?, Fast Company Rebels at Work, Kelly and Medina z13 FAQ (100+pp), IBM z13 Technical Guide , IBM      

 ITPS195: Upgrades | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:58

Executive Summary: What is your company's approach to upgrades? Do you weigh features against security? Are they a nuisance or a competitive advantage? We'll debate this in our first show of the new year.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 44:04     IT Pro News: AWS makes a flurry of December announcements, including APIs, containers and mobile, but this week’s Cross-Account access in the management console may be the best one. Accenture launches hybrid cloud platform with Microsoft Check out some of the newest Office tools: Sway, Mix, Delve Salesforce Files Connect gets OneDrive integration Cyber attack against German steel factory cripples furnaces CES highlight: Thinkpad X1 Carbon get hi-res, and an F12 key Intel has shipped the long-delayed CPUs Broadwell for you to buy this year Average employees ages at IT companies       IT Pro Main Topic: Managing change when confronted with obsolescence and forced upgrades   Be sure that you have been monitoring the Microsoft Lifecycle   now on Extended Support, January 2015 Dynamics C5 2010, Dynamics NAV 2009, Dynamics NAV 2009 R2 Exchange Server 2010 Enterprise,  Exchange Server 2010 Standard Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 (many) Windows Server 2008 R2 (many)   now on End of Support, January 2015 Host Integration Server 2004 Systems Management Server 2003 Systems Management Server 2003 R2 Virtual Server 2005  (many) Visual FoxPro 9.0   about to retire, July 2015 Windows Server 2003   VALUE: is it worth the new features SECURITY: is it still being patched and does it matter much to you NUISANCE: every upgrade takes time, money, and comes with a few surprises. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: are people in the company seeking features that are customer facing       IT Pro Bookshelf: “The Power of the API Economy”, IBM Redbook, 26pp Modern Datacenter Architecture Patterns–Hybrid Networking, MSFT Technet The Hadoop Weekly newsletter #100 Intel Core 5th gen factsheet      

 ITPS194: Head in the Cloud | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Executive Summary: John took a trip to a Microsoft Data Center this week and he's got a recap including a lot of Azure-related news for IT pros and developers that you won't want to miss. It's our final show of the year.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 40:13       IT Pro News: The industry is supporting Microsoft’s position against governmental searches Ford drops Microsoft for its infotainment platform Sony reminds the media about stolen property Lenovo recalls power cords too, but at a tenth the units FCC raises school tech programs budget from $2.4B to $3.9B     IT Pro Main Topic: Azure update in Chicago Microsoft Execs are talking up Azure as enterprise-ready John recaps Azure update and data center tour Azure DC growth is high Azure + Visual Studio + test loads improved with Azure SDK 2.5 MSDN access gives Azure developers free monthly credits   PaaS vs. IaaS [infographic] Web sites a type of PaaS management of systems vary by offering   DataCenters at Microsoft man traps and biometrics containers no exotic fire fighting processes fiber is taking over legacy gear still present        

 ITPS193: News Roundup | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:54

Executive Summary: A roundup of the stories making news this week. German companies are taking an extra step towards the focus on work-life balance. Would that work in the United States? What does Google's release of Android Studio mean to your enterprise?   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time:32:58   IT Pro News: Cleveland announces plans for 100-Gigabit fiber for commercial use Ubuntu Core joins the Container party Cisco is not happy with Arista A detailed counter-analysis about Chromebooks winning in education Google gets around to releasing v1 of IDE for Android Why are German companies turning off email servers at night?        

 ITPS192: Win10 in the Enterprise | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:49

Executive Summary: Windows 10 is in Tech Preview. It’s time to get ready. And it seems that Microsoft is paying attention to IT Pros. John recaps a local seminar all about enterprise mobility. Plus, news of a pretty nasty trojan that is in the wild. HP is making news from Barcelona. And Chromebooks are on the upswing in the education sector. Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 40:54   IT Pro News: Huge trojan uncovered called Regin. Which Programming Language will get you the best salary? Chromebooks are taking over education. Finland about to drop the teaching of cursive, in favor of more typing. HP Discover is at Barcelona this week, with announcements on enterprise IT, an HP Office 365 offering and HP Big Data in the Cloud. IT Pro Main Topic: The Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite, which included Azure AD Premium, Intune and Rights Management Windows 10 in Technical Preview   IT Pro Bookshelf: FAQ for Win10 Enterprise Win10 system requirements a very large comparison of all the Office365 features        

 ITPS191: Whither Paperless | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:56

Executive Summary: Whatever became of the promise of a paperless office? Gene Rodenberry saw this happening back in the 60's. We'll discuss what's been holding companies back and what may be helping turn this around.     Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 50:02       IT Pro News: US Net Neutrality a play for USF ? Cisco expanding WebEx with a Box partnership Facebook for Business is coming? AT&T too worried to expand fiber (this seems to be more consumer than IT Pro but…) an Ad Hoc Teleco User Committee is anti-regulations, except for the monopolistic last mile Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF’s) Internet Architecture Board (IAB) recommends full encryption by default and in the whole stack     IT Pro Main Topic: Whatever happened to the paperless office Why the paperless office hasn’t arrived. old habits across generations poor technical implementations of solutions the trouble with work and home balance security and intellectual property photocopiers don’t “feel” like printers : some have scanners!    

 ITPS190: Open Microsoft | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:20

Executive Summary: Microsoft makes some announcements that have the Tech industry and developer communities abuzz. The cloud wars are definitely heating up, and Amazon does not want to be left behind. We'll talk about these newest developments and tell you about a Windows patch that addresses a vulnerability that has been around for decades.     Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 27:23   IT Pro News: IBM feeds Twitter for lunch Rackspace will host Azure workloads as a partner for Microsoft Cloud OS Patch Tuesday is critical this week for OLE Goodbye, Lync. Hello, Skype for Business Hortonworks set to IPO Firefox is 10     IT Pro Main Topic: Cloud wars continue Now Office iOS apps work for free Microsoft wants to be everywhere, so it’s going open source and/or free in several areas Amazon partners are stepping up Amazon offering more test drives Is Amazon really going after Oracle and SQL Server again?        

 IT Pro Show 176: 06.09.2014 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:07

Executive Summary: We're continuing our discussion on how to assess the value of your IT organization and services. How do you work with vendors from inside your company? And how do you assess the completeness of your offerings?   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 37:12   IT Pro News: RHEL 7 ships with new file system XFS. Oracle ships 12c database with In Memory Option and performance boosts. IT Pro Main Topic: A continuation of last week's discussion on assessing the business value of your IT organization   IVI is the Innovation Value Institute, members and academia IT-CMF capability maturity model. 4 areas totalling 33 capabilities. Managing IT like a Business, Managing the IT Budget, Managing the IT Capability, Managing IT for Business Value Each capability has a macro maturity from 1-5 and a set of capability building blocks. how to assess the completeness of your offering how to work with vendors from inside your company

 IT Pro Show 175: 06.02.2014 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:13

Executive Summary: It seems that there are plenty of business maturity frameworks to choose from these days. What do they mean to your business? How do you put them to work for you? Where does your org rank in maturity across many of these dimensions? John will recap training that he went through recently and spark some debate.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 42:18   IT Pro News: MobileIron looks better than “Good” with updated IPO Hadoop innovation from the Apache foundation with Spark and high performance A distributed OpenStack municipal German cloud innovates with CloudAndHeat and a PUE close to 1.0 Congrats to Microsoft’s improvements in cloud on the Gartner Magic Quadrants IT Pro Main Topic: ITIL, Cobit and Togaf are very detailed We covered some of this in IT Pro Show #124 in Feb 2013   IVI is the Innovation Value Institute, members and academia IT-CMF capability maturity model. 4 areas totalling 33 capabilities. Managing IT like a Business, Managing the IT Budget, Managing the IT Capability, Managing IT for Business Value Each capability has a macro maturity from 1-5 and a set of capability building blocks (example: Tech Infra Mgmt, Ent Arch Mgmt)      

 IT Pro Show 174: 05.26.2014 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Executive Summary: We're back after a few weeks attending some of the big IT conferences in North America. Mike recaps TechEd and Cisco Live. What were the common, recurring themes? What were the highlights and lowlights? How do these observations relate to experience that John and Tom have seen?   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 40:51      IT Pro Main Topic: Tech Conference Recaps Microsoft TechEd 2014 (Houston) First time they merged MMS and TechEd into one event. It was crowded. Too big for the George Brown Conv Ctr. Conspicuously, they did not have an announcement about 2015 conference, to quell the rumors that they were discontinuing the conference. Pretty clear they are developing for cloud first. No on-premises product releases or announcements All about Azure. Rossinovich admitted they have an oscillating rhythm at work for melding features into products. can deliver much faster to the Azure/cloud versions. Buttons and positions of features are changing all the time Disappointed that they were so insistent in presuming you are all MSFT. Lots of SAN bashing in favor of Storage Spaces. You’d never hear them mention VMware or Xen, except in the sessions where they tried to “objectively compare” them to HyperV.   Cisco Live 2014 (San Francisco) 25th anniversary of the conference (used to be called Networkers) 25,000 people in attendance at the Moscone and Marriott Marquis Cloud was the drinking word this year. Also “internet of everything” and “software defined networking”. Cisco plans to be #1 in this. Interestingly, they also claim to be #1 in “Cloud” John Chambers keynote: very ambitious. forecasted drastic and dire consolidation in the tech industry Mike participated in the management track. Many disappointments about how this was executed. Good session on service catalogs. traditional “keep the lights on” budget model: Think like a service provider. act like a service operator and broker. Defining IT Services - Common Mistakes (Cisco on 4th or 5th iteration of their catalog. been doing this for five years)

 IT Pro Show 173: 05.05.2014 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:17

Executive Summary: Changes are inevitable. If you are proactively managing your technology portfolio, then you realize the work that is involved to maintain software currency. But are you aware of all of the dependencies and the impacts that change has on other parts of your organization? Effective communications of roadmaps and plans are vital to prioritizing work and eliminating risk of non-support. We'll discuss what we've seen.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 40:22       IT Pro News: Symantec executive says A/V is dead Target CEO ousted after recent data breach. Dell Corp is 30 Linus Torvald awarded IEEE pioneer HP FaaS can help you design and manage your data center Better Intel Chromebooks announced IT Pro Main Topic: Communicating Your Roadmaps   Communicating the changes in IT and getting them done.   Executive Board’s CIO Leadership Council observed this: “Were you ready for Windows XP support discontinuation? Better prepare for more: in the next 6–12 months, more than 120 technologies from Microsoft, 45 from Oracle, and at least 200 from other popular technology vendors are discontinuing support. Which of your business units do you think will be affected, and how badly? Answers to these questions will be elusive if the IT portfolio data resides in multiple locations and there is no coordination in IT roadmapping.”   What do you have? Technology Inventory Roadmaps How old is the stuff you have? Technology Lifecycle Management Roadmaps Are there things you can reduce or eliminate or migrate to other places? IT Consolidation Roadmaps Do you know how your tech is tied to your most and least important business capabilities? Capability Roadmaps Are you supporting important projects? IT Strategic Planning Roadmaps align IT initiatives to high-level corporate and business unit objectives to inform decision making.    

 IT Pro Show 172: 04.28.2014 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:31

Executive Summary: Does DevOps make sense for your organization? Is this good for the IT pro? We'll take a look at what this is all about and debate some of the pros and cons for being versatile in this way.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time:30:34   IT Pro News: Cloudy Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server release includes the “icehouse” collection for OpenStack and ARM server support IBM POWER8 CPU open licensed and might be used by Google Microsoft attacks business class cloud storage providers with 1TB OneDrive @ $2.50/mo Google plays productivity catch-up and releases productivity apps Vic Gundotra, Head of Google+ has left the building The Feds recommend no IE usage from v6 to v11 until a fix is out IT Pro Main Topic: DevOps Developers vs Operations. Is DevOps working? What is the difference in IT job roles? Does specialization work in your company? Is speedy development and release an issue? Does management have well understood objectives for you and your team?    

 IT Pro Show 171: 04.14.2014 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: Unknown

Executive Summary: It's easy to get distracted many times during the workday. Walk-ups, phone calls, emails. They can all cause you to lose track of what you needed to do. We'll talk about personal productivity tips that you can use to be more effective in team settings.   Hosts: John Kresic, Tom Kresic, Mike Kresic Running Time: 47:27   IT Pro News: Follow-up to the HeartBleed issue with a testing cert site from Steve Gibson Windows Phone 8.1 getting good reviews AWS R3 available with 32 CPUs and a quarter TB of RAM A Microsoft conversion tool for VMs Summary of the MS BUILD conference in video IT Pro Main Topic: Personal productivity managing email and followup (getting things done: Important v Urgent; touch it once if only two minutes) managing contacts and staying connected chairing a meeting with agenda, action sharing info in the right “channel” Conference Calendar: We cover upcoming IT Conferences during the 1st show of each month. Is there a conference you think we should be mentioning in this segment? Let us know! IT Pro Bookshelf: Intro to SQL Server 2014  (free PDF)            

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