Reed G. Porter at myITforum.com

Number 5 is Alive

rporter — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:08:00 GMT

Episode Number Five is Alive - 3/4/2010 at 6:00 CST (UTC-06:00)

Opening/closing music 'Afterburner' by Carl Edlund Anderson of Bogota, Columbia

Topics:

Microwaves
Missouri State Capital Building Rotunda
Popular Science Archives
Golden Breadstick Award
MMS Challenge update #MMS2010
Pleas for airfare and lodging at Microsoft Management Summit
My broken Xbox
Knitting Bible Study, @KnitnBibleStudy on Twitter
Question of the Week: ???
Plus the usual drivel about nerd TV, weather, sports, tech, etc.

Super thanks to Rod Trent and the rest of the fine folks at MyITForum for sponsoring this show and my #MMS2010 conference pass!

Click here to listen on Blog Talk Radio ~ Live at the time above or anytime after.

You can also subscribe via RSS or iTunes. *** Note: You can call to listen in or talk on the show. I don't start taking calls on-air until 15 minutes past.***

Episode 4 Sc-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-re!

rporter — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:44:00 GMT

*** Note: You can call to listen in or talk on the show. I won't start taking calls on-air until 15 minutes past.*** Episode 4; you know the score - 2/25/2010 at 6:00 CST (UTC-06:00)

Opening/closing music 'I Do as I Please' by Sparkplug

Topics:

Opinions about this week's Olympic hockey, skating, curling
Golden Breadstick Award MMS Challenge update #MMS2010
Microsoft Management Summit pleas for airfare and lodging.
Question of the Week: Where have you lived?
Plus the usual drivel about nerd TV, weather, sports, tech, etc.

Super thanks to Rod Trent and the rest of the fine folks at MyITForum for sponsoring this show and my #MMS2010 conference pass! Listen with the widget on this page or click here to listen on Blog Talk Radio You can also subscribe via RSS or iTunes.

Episode 3 and it's Still Free

rporter — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:59:00 GMT

Tick tock, it’s almost time Originally uploaded by Aaron-H

Remember: The show starts at 6pm CST this week and that will become the regular time. So here we are at Episode 3! Last week was actually Episode 2, but after so many shows the numbers start to run together. I'll be back on Skype for this show and able to take calls. Topics this week:

I can has a Sponsor for MMS! Thanks Rod Trent and MyITForum, Inc, what a wonderful surprise.
Still need someone to step up and help me get there or secure a place to sleep while I am in Las Vegas.
My long lost daughter found me on Facebook.
An 18-year journey nears the end.
Weekend retreat was a blast.
MMS Challenge
Question of the Week - Send me your questions to answer on the show.

Plus the usual drivel about TV, Weather, Sports, Technology, and this week's Golden Breadstick award.

Listen Live at 6pm CST

MyOTRadio Episode 2 is ready to go.

rporter — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:36:00 GMT

fusion 2006 Originally uploaded by phogel

I know it's hard to believe, but I am tossing caution aside and going forward with the 2nd episode! This week we will have to listen to the opening music all the way as I am recording while driving home and I had to let the engineer go. Because of the economy. Topics today: The weekly Golden Breadstick Award, Microsoft Management Summit 2010 challenge, talk about holidays, Google Buzz and begging for sponsorship. Tune in, won't you? 5pm Central. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/myotradio/2010/02/11/myotradio No call ins as there is no one on the switch board.

MyOTRadio is a GO

rporter — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:45:00 GMT

At 5pm February 4th I will broadcast the first epidose of MyOTRadio (My Off-Topic Radio). I'll be rambling about the first Golden Breadstick Award, Fitness Podcasts, Microsoft Management Summit (have an extra ticket? Call or email me), and various other topics sure to amuse you into a deep sleep.

I'm Sending Out Signals

rporter — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:48:00 GMT

martians a-go-go in l.a. Originally uploaded by jek in the box

Another testcast for MYOTRadio. Hopefully this is more about what to say than figuring out the technology. Still taking auditions and nominations for a co-host :) So call in tomorrow between 5 and 6 PM CST @ (347) 205-9066 Thursday 1/28/2010 5 PM Central

More and up to date info:

I'm On an OT Radio

rporter — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:47:00 GMT

NYC: Rockefeller Center - Radio City Music Hall Originally uploaded by wallyg

Join me tonight as I do a trial run of MyOTRadio! I'll be over a Blog Talk Radio starting @ 5:30 PM Central time and join the text chat, or call in and harass me! 1/21/2010 5:30 PM CST http://www.blogtalkradio.com/myotradio

Plankton Against the World Viral Video Contest

rporter — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:24:00 GMT

Upstart Systems Management and Security firm, BigFix, Inc, announced a viral video contest yesterday. Hope they know their market well, because from here it sounds a little like Sheldon Plankton trying to take down the venerable Krusty Krab!

Press Release follows....

BIGFIX KICKS OFF 2010 IT DINOSAUR AWARDS VIRAL VIDEO CONTEST

Viral Video Contest to Identify and Expose 2010’s IT Dinosaurs

Emeryville, Calif.—January 12, 2010

News Facts

BigFix, Inc today declared open season on enterprise IT evolutionary throwbacks with its 2010 IT Dinosaur Awards Viral Video contest.
The contest invites enterprise IT professionals to charge up their “Flip,” smart phone, and digital video cameras to capture the frustration and costs of working with information technology dinosaurs in modern distributed endpoint computing environments.
Videos can consist of eyewitness accounts of management disasters, data rampages, rants against prehistoric business practices and technologies, or creative narrative videos dramatizing events in the Lost World of IT Systems Management.
Prizes include a $1,000 first prize, three $500 runner-up awards, and BigFix Dino Hunter T-Shirts for qualified contestants.

Supporting Quotes

“Whether it’s huge footprints in the data center, lumbering performance, aggressive predator business models, or pea-brained approaches to managing enterprise computing assets, the IT industry abounds with examples of unintelligent design,” David Appelbaum, senior vice president of marketing for BigFix. “We’re calling on intrepid explorers of the IT community to relate their experiences walking with the dinosaurs of IT. These can be almost anything that can be captured on a video camera—a talking-head rant, eyewitness testimony, or a dramatic re-enactment of a significant event in the unnatural history of enterprise management. We’ll be announcing winners the first week of March 2010 at an IT event to be named later in San Francisco, so start shooting now.”

IT Security Dinosaur Awards Contest Information

The contest calls attention to the inertia of fossilized IT systems management solutions such as Symantec/Altiris, LANDesk, and Microsoft SCCM, that graze on vast amounts of IT greenbacks while taking up significant efforts and cost in their care and feeding.
Potential dinosaur hunters are welcome in the meantime to shoot footage and upload it via http://www.senduit.com/ and forward to the triassic_park@bigfix.com email alias for consideration in the forthcoming contest.
BigFix will post official rules for the contest on its website soon.
In the meantime, entrants must be a minimum18 years of age, not employed or an independent services contractor to BigFix, Inc., and must take full legal responsibility for content included in their entries.
Contest entries close Friday, February 26, 2010.
BigFix will announce winners the first week of March, 2010 in conjunction with an IT and security industry event in San Francisco held at that time.

BigFix IT Dinosaur Viral Video Film School

Three minutes or less is the best way to hold viewer interest. Any more exceeds viewer and contest judge patience.
Wit, humor, and creativity rate highly with the judges. Unrelieved bitterness is a turn off.
For purposes of this contest, dinosaurs are technologies that have outlived their extinct-by dates—not the companies you work for, unless you want to go back to chipping flint for a living.

BigFix: Survival of the Fittest

BigFix technologies, products, and solutions represent a highly evolved approach to consolidating essential system management and security services in enterprise IT infrastructures.
The company’s products thrive in a wide variety of ecological niches in private and public sector environments.
Important habitats include systems lifecycle management, endpoint protection, and security configuration and vulnerability management.
The BigFix ecosystem thrives by distributing visibility and management responsibilities to computing devices themselves, using the intelligent BigFix Agent to provide real-time visibility and control not possible in “dinosaur” solutions.
BigFix survival of the fittest advantages include speed, flexibility, and scalability, while reducing the infrastructure and training costs associated with pre-historic systems and security management.

Information Resources

Twitter: @BigFix
BigFix Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/l/c74d0;j.mp/fbpBF
BigFix IT Security Dinosaur Awards e-mail alias: triassic_park@bigfix.com
Tags: IT Dinosaur Awards

About BigFix

Founded in 1997, the BigFix®, Inc. solutions support a global portfolio of A-list organizations in government, finance, retail, educational, industrial and public utility sectors. BigFix revolutionizes IT infrastructure management by replacing fragmented collections of single-purpose tools with the industry’s only unified visibility and control architecture that consolidates up to 18 security, IT compliance, decision support, and green computing functions. For more information, visit www.bigfix.com, follow BigFix on Twitter @BigFix, or stay in touch on the BigFix Facebook page, http://tinyurl.com/mvn9nu.

Windows 7 Launch Party Host Kit

rporter — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:47:00 GMT

UPS just delivered my Windows 7 Launch Party Kit and here is a video of the unboxing! My party was going to be on October 23rd, but with the job in Jefferson City, I may not get back in time. Look for a new time on the 24th or 25th....(more)

Why I should win the HP Mini Vivienne TAM Clutch computer for my wife

rporter — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:04:00 GMT

1) She loves to stay connected and the T-Mobile Wing just doesn’t cut it

2) She would have constant access to her important files

3) It would fit snuggly into her purse

4) It would be a great fashion statement and look good on her

5) I would look be her hero when I give it to her. And what man doesn't want that?

re: HP getting rid of Altiris on the server?

rporter — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:31:00 GMT

Rod,

HP never had hooks into Altiris Notification Server...something that bugged me to no end. They were planning to add a solution back in 2001, but I believe they decided to go with an HP branded solution and force server admins that way.

HP's RDP for deploying servers is based on Altiris Deployment Server and many shops are heavily invested into those scripts. It used to be the best way to deploy servers, but changes in deployment technologies (WDT, WIM, Altiris Hardware Independant Imaging, etc.) has made it pretty archaic these days. I don't have any knowledge of changes from RDP to HP Config Manager.

Config Manager. Good grief, do you think they could think up a name that would cause more confusion?)

Updated List O' Feeds

rporter — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:49:00 GMT

Felt the need to revise my list of RSS Feeds today.

Altiris ManageFusion '07 Orlando - 3 - Tuesday October 9

rporter — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:01:38 GMT

Tuesday at Altiris: Now a Part of Symantec's ManageFusion '07 was the official start of the conference. The keynote opened with superstar conference host and V.P. Steve Morton doing his very entertaining show. The guests were Greg Butterfield and Dwain Kinghorn of Altiris, Subo Guha from Dell, and Steve Grobman from Intel.At the Las Vegas ManageFusion, the Altiris people were a little out of sorts having been acquired just a couple days earlier. I was willing to bet many would be gone by the time the Orlando ManageFusion came around. Not so! They were much more relaxed and acted more like the fun-loving irreverent Altiris people we've all come to know and love.

Former CEO and current Altiris Group President Greg Butterfield made his now traditional dramatic entrance on a Razor Scooter. He told us that employees did not defect in droves, but in fact they have more employees now than they did 6 months ago. Greg went on to talk about the ongoing integration of Symantec core products into the Notification Server architecture. Endpoint Solution, PC Anywhere, and Ghost are all slated to have visibility from the NS console in version 7.

Subo Gutha of Dell apparently gets the rock star treatment when he goes to Lindon and visits with the Altiris Group. At least what the video we were shown portrayed! Dell continues to create solutions they need themselves and offering them to their customers. If you have Dell clients and/or servers and you do not have Notification Server installed with the Dell client and server add-ons what are you waiting for? The whole thing is free and offers more information about your Dell units than you ever dreamed of.

Steve Grobman's first comment was about how they have just finished working out their desktop strategy for 2011! Intel continues to make strides in giving administrators tools to keep managing their environment for minimal disruption and risk exposure to ensure maximum uptime. Currently they are offering Advanced Management Technology which gives you the ability to administer a PC remotely even when it is turned off. Looks really cool and they are just getting started with exploring the possibilities.

Next came the demos with Steve Morton and Dwain Kinghorn trading barbs.`They (and others) demonstrated several products. The coolest had to be the new Workflow Solution. This simplifies and makes possible the automation of business processes. I've seen other products claim to do this, but I have yet been anywhere where the tasks to do a process is fully automated. Workflow Solution just might do it. It is similar to a 4th generation modeling engine where you drag blocks into a workspace and then define them. Definitely worth checking out when you get a chance.

Other demos were Norton Endpoint Security, Veritas Configuratiom Manager, and Backup Exec System Recovery (BESR pronounced beezer). Endpoint Security Solution proposes to take antivirus software up from the barely effective model of file scanning into something much better. I sure hope so. Veritas Configuration Manager has just been integrated into the NS architecture and looks a little hacked still, but there is a lot of promise there if it can deliver true state management to the data center. BESR looks cool, but doesn't everything come with a physical to virtual (or vice versa) component these days - including Deployment Server / RDP?

More demos included CMDB solution 6.5 which is available now and Altiris IT Analytics Executive Reporting, both of which I will detail further in a later post.

After the Keynote I went to a session on the new CMDB. Then I missed the afternoon sessions due to issues back at the office. The day ended with a Central Region Reception followed by dinner at a very nice steak house.

Technorati Tags: ManageFusion, Orlando, Dell, Intel, CMDB, Altiris, BESR, VCM

Altiris ManageFusion '07 Orlando - 2 Dell Throws a Party!

rporter — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:44:21 GMT

I arrived at the Royal Pacific Resort Monday evening, checked-in, threw my bags in my room, and immediately headed for the boat to City Walk. Why? Article about Dell and Altiris Strategic Alliance was throwing a party and I didn't want to miss it!

After coming ashore in the CityWalk, I immediately proceeded to the party location at The Hard Rock Cafe Orlando. It was pretty cool. The party occupied the entire second floor area at the west end of the complex. I was greeted by dozens of adoring 'fans' requesting my autograph. I'm a rock star! Elvis greeted me at the bottom of the stairs and the Fab Four were taunting us at the top. The Ringo sure is the cheeky sort! There was other famous look alikes roaming about as well. They also provided plenty food, drink, as well as an Xbox 360 to play Guitar Hero with!

The music was great and the food and drinks wonderful. I met with many of the people I came to see and was introduced to all the right folk. Hats off and a hearty thank-you to Dell and any others responsible for this event.

Technorati Tags: Dell, Altiris, Symantec, ManageFusion, XBOX 360, Hard Rock, Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando

Altiris ManageFusion '07 Orlando - 1

rporter — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 12:12:39 GMT

I am in Florida for this fall's ManageFusion in at the Universal Studios site in Orlando, FL. I'm excited to get more information about the relentlessly imminent release of version 7 of the Altiris suite of products.

I'm real excited to get to version 7 because Altiris comes up to meet more of the enterprise customer's needs with a hierarchical architecture in place. This will allow Altiris engineers to go to a parent/child design rather than all the systems being peers requiring everything to be replicated across the different Notification Servers manually.

Can I get an alright!?

Technorati Tags: Altiris, Orlando, ManageFusion, Notification Server