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interface Kevin0/0/0 tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm/1 2008-06-19T20:48:58Z Kevin's trails, including ramblings about networks, computing, IT, photography, and other topics that cross my mind. Movable Type 3.31 Grid v. Cloud tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.176 2008-06-19T20:47:49Z 2008-06-19T20:48:58Z

I was pointed to a document that looks at the differences between grids and clouds: GRIDS AND CLOUDS: EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?...

GRIDS AND CLOUDS: EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION?]]> ITANA Face2Face: Security Architectures tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.175 2008-06-18T20:30:25Z 2008-06-18T22:00:12Z

Indiana University New strategic plan - 10 year Previous strategic plan required projects to demonstrate how they fit w/ strategic plan to get money Previous plan had IT as a silo. New plan: IT isn't a silo. IT as part of other silos.. WiFi RFP completed: upgrade over the summer Implementing MPLS w/ PCI as the first target Isolating and protecting devices on the network - automatically detect some types of devices and create an appropriate environment for them - 802.1x on wired and wireless - non-802.1x devices - proxy w/ MAC address - web based registration for MAC addresses Important to have diagnostics to know what happened

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Is there such a thing as security architecture? security principles - Security is Everyone's Responsibility - Security is part of the development life cycle - Security is Asset Management Risk assessment process - letter of engagement - conduct assessment - draft report - communicate findings - reassess ]]> ITANA Face2Face: Data Management tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.174 2008-06-18T19:19:55Z 2008-06-18T20:29:28Z

Virtual Roundtable It's all about the data. Doesn't matter what compute power you have.. the value is in the data Data Governance - fairly well understood (relative to other areas of data management) Major issues data architecture, analysis, and design...

data architecture, analysis, and design - across systems, data manipulation

security mgmt - access, privacy

reference and master data mgmt

warehousing and business intelligence mgmt

document, record, and content mgmt

metadata mgmt

[Taking notes on challenges with individual scenarios in a spreadsheet] scenario 1 - finding data in a data warehouse. scenario 2 - information is not easily consumable. scenario 3 - privilege management. access based on role, not on username "role based access control continues to be the access control method of the future" whole issue of RBAC is hard, needs to be thought out. [not sure this is the most important in data mgmt?] but, externalizing the management of privileges separate from the app makes things better scenario 4 - electronic lectures and talks. metadata storage CAESAR project - classify unstructured data scenario 5 - data going onto web2.0 - PKI & signing scenario 6 - medical data scenario 7 - ediscovery ]]> Leaving Duke for Amazon tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.173 2008-06-18T18:06:04Z 2008-06-18T18:09:48Z

Though most of my day to day 'blogging' occurs on Twitter, I wanted to mention here that I'm going to be leaving Duke. My last day will be June 26th. At the end of June, Rebecca and I will be...

Twitter, I wanted to mention here that I'm going to be leaving Duke. My last day will be June 26th. At the end of June, Rebecca and I will be relocating from North Carolina to the northern Virginia area. I have accepted a position at Amazon.com; specifically Amazon Web Services (AWS). I will be joining a small software team developing new products under the AWS umbrella. As the saying goes, this move comes with mixed emotions. I have and continue to enjoy the challenges and opportunities at Duke. Duke's IT organization has forward-thinking management and an experienced staff. It's difficult for me to say goodbye, yet I am excited by the new opportunities that await me. While I'm thinking about it, let me point out some interesting work that is occurring on AWS: JBoss on EC2 ]]> ITANA Face2Face: Architecture on your Campus tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.172 2008-06-18T17:12:19Z 2008-06-18T18:05:48Z

UW Milwaukee Decentralized units, often not looking at bigger issues Building an EA Team - acquired / re-purposed staff with architecture experience Focused on future state Plan strategy iteratively EA Team - process arch, enterprise data arch, operations, app integration, security, network, web, deputy CIO Think about end user experiences Developed architectural principles - based on TOGAF framework - Business principles, data principles, application development principles, technology principles Developed IT Guiding Principles for centralized & decentralized staff -- "How we'll function" Discovery - lack of rigorous requirements management -- solutions misaligned with problems Starting to use COBIT, evaluating ITIL.. TOGAF/PRINCE2 for planning & organization, IIBA/PMI/DAMA for Acquire & Implement, Six Sigma to monitor & evaluate

Saint Louis University

Silos No linkages between silos Passive change control "show me an ROI" for enterprise architecture ]]> ITANA Face2Face: Tools of the Trade tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.171 2008-06-18T15:19:54Z 2008-06-18T17:27:55Z

Blogging from ITANA Face 2 Face 2008 Curtis Bray - Middleware Tech Architect @ UC Davis Process > Output > Implementation 8 System domains, 70 applications (originally 7 applications.. too many interdependencies) Process 24 groups, 27 meetings - vision, strengths,...

ITANA Face 2 Face 2008

Curtis Bray - Middleware Tech Architect @ UC Davis

Process > Output > Implementation 8 System domains, 70 applications (originally 7 applications.. too many interdependencies) Process

24 groups, 27 meetings - vision, strengths, opportunities, risks
surveys for 15 applications

Developed model for how apps are clustered -- e.g. groups, relationships ("org chart" ?)

Domains: academic personnel admin, IT (middleware, etc), finance, research admin, payroll/hr, alumni/university relations, student/curriculum support, enterprise asset management
Each has a convener / PM that participates in IT systems coordinating council

Conceptual approach to framing roadmap

Plan the big rocks
Plan the connective tissue
Negotiate shared pool for common functional applications
Independent development (e.g. departmental) fills gaps, but harvest value from it campus-wide

Strong focus on spending wisely; communicating spending decisions to raise awareness of what they have Planning to develop common policy/architecture Focus on having the architectural vision apply throughout central and decentral departments Current status: agreement to implement More Info Side item - UCDavis is moving students to gmail

Jim Hooper - Saint Louis University

Product Item Master - PIM

Internal standards w/ enterprise perspective
Doesn't limit what is allowed, but what is supported

Product lifecycle - Researching > Current/deploy > Stop deploying > Phase out Focus on specific products, services -- e.g. desktop computers and printers Architectural Council - 19 folks w/ architect in the title (how does that work?) Architecture Review Board - 9 folks EA Team - chief architect + 2 architects Procurement department constrains purchases based on PIM 19 of 105 IT staff are considered architects (broad-banded, 4 titles, 1 title is architect)

Tom Barton - University of Chicago

"It's hard to see the big pictures from your patch" Fewer people have the total perspective on how it all works IT Ecosystem tool (requires login)

Record and visualize dependencies
help managers determine who they should talk to
help staff see their work as part of the bigger picture

Simple ontology - verbs and nouns to describe "stuff" (servers, database, "liveware" (users, groups), platforms, apps, storage, network, etc), relationships Questions

able to describe redundant relationships? e.g. need one of several?
- some constructs for this
manual maintenance, automated maintenance? (or verification)
- no, populated through conversations w/ folks - some folks are interested in more detail than others
how is it used - outages?

Relationships - support, modify, part-of, hosts, xfers-data-to, other Folks copy the tool and use it locally to plan infrastructure, etc Network folks planning to start integrating data center infrastructure in the system.. don't know what impact they'll have with network moves -- [does someone have the visibility on both network and system to help the understanding?] Data center folks planning to use to coordinate moves/adds/changes there Some concept of DataCharacteristics -- e.g. SSNs stored somewhere No current way to show current v. proposed -- e.g. facilitating change management Not really looking at using this as a CMDB in the ITIL sense.. [why not? what should be the system of record for this data?] Can follow dependency chains - textual and graphical reporting Number of things that depend on a particular service -- SAN is highest [where is DNS?] ]]> GWMS Live Blog: Aruba preso tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.170 2008-03-03T22:28:26Z 2008-03-03T23:00:57Z

Tested 4 infrastructures - Cisco IOS, Cisco LWAPP, Meru, Aruba w/ multiple laptops: macbook pro (3x3 atheros) macbook air (2x2 broadcom) systemax (2x2 intel 4965) ibm (4965 3x3) HP (something) results - seems to be 40mhz tests - aruba had greatest throughput across the board (surprise?), 150mbps - meru had very odd results (some really low) - cisco ios mid-range - cisco lwapp 2nd in most (up to 100mbps or so) - aruba numbers seem similar to numbers we saw from LWAPP in august talking about one channel in 2.4ghz, making the case for 5ghz.. not mentioning 20mhz channels?? "Can that access point run using a single 802.3af power injector over a single 100 meter cable?" - saying yes we can - not mentioning that it runs with reduced functionality - second generation atheros chipset Chuck Bartel @ CMU - 4.1M square feet being deployed wireless andrew .. 8100+ regd devices, 5000+ simultaneous active targeting -70dBm RSSI in all spaces GWMS Live Blog: Emerging Wireless tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.169 2008-03-03T19:52:01Z 2008-03-03T20:43:10Z

Greater focus on software than hardware Bluetooth, 802.11n are the big winners.. NFC, Wireless HD, ZWave all players .. zwave v. zigbee software controlled becomes software-defined radios becomes cognitive radios software-defined: multiple protocols, modulation techniques.. all digital. now available cognitive radios require regulatory changes .. 4 years out approximately 3yr lag between HDD and flash memory for similar price per gb going to multi-core in mobile devices.. able to turn off cores that you aren't using and power them up for multimedia, etc OLEDs coming to displays.. LightBlue Optics .. micro-projector location is important.. GPS in 40% of the handsets in a few years. doesn't work indoors, of course. mapping WiFi access points based on MAC address and using that to determine location. another idea: take a picture of where you are, compare against a massive database of photos power is a big problem, no big changes opportunity to break mobile phones into pieces .. e.g. display as a wristwatch, antennas/radios in your pocket, etc. connected wirelessly usability - final frontier good designers are scarce no standards for gestures, etc interesting new paradigms - vibration as feedback mechanism - shoogle - shake to test battery - bluetooth bonding - shake together - multi-device virtual environment .. wave your hand around to control mouse good products/services: visceral impact (5 second response), functional (does what you want), reflective (goals, values) adoption drivers - single tech supplier - uses established standards - easy - uses existing behavior - simple value proposition - compelling value - visceral appeal - social value / cool - visible success Duke Tuition Hike tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.167 2008-03-03T17:09:27Z 2008-03-03T17:26:47Z

Tis the season.. Tuition Hikes at Duke As well at CMU ... and many others. But CMU crossing the $50K threshold is a bit disconcerting. So let's see.. if CMU continues rising 6% per year, on average, as it has...

Tuition Hikes at Duke As well at CMU ... and many others. But CMU crossing the $50K threshold is a bit disconcerting. So let's see.. if CMU continues rising 6% per year, on average, as it has for the last 8 years, in 20 years tuition will be a cool $125,000/yr. Obviously financial aid offsets, but it seems to me that this trend can't continue as it has. ]]> Gartner Wireless Mobile Summit Live Blog: Unified Comm tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.168 2008-03-03T16:47:22Z 2008-03-03T17:44:27Z

I'm here in Chicago, where it's cold and rainy, with a promise of snow. I'm giving a spiel tomorrow morning on 802.11n. Unified Communications ... - intro slide: please sit in the last 2 rows if you are taking notes on your laptop. 20% of the room has laptops out.. also, "battery operated only for safety reasons". e.g. we didn't want to pay union rates to have power outlets. let's see how long 46% lasts me. :( work.. from desk worker, to mobile worker, to tomorrow's semi-mobile worker. mobility as a driver moreso than cost unified comm is: PBX, email, voice mail, converged conferencing, IM (+presence & status) learning from contact center, collaboration, business process integration, mobility, etc continuum 1:1, many to many internal/external discrete/embedded persistent/temporary fixed/mobile message/real-time business case for UC? hard to write it across the board.. focus on the obvious areas and grow from there thinking about UC within organization, also across organizations.. ** need to raise the questions of how this works between organizations.. early in the maturation process, do we have the right standards in place? shib, etc different levels of support based on device and connectivity ... wow, how will we survive?!?! [tuning out] fixed mobile convergence.. all the rage. not going to save $ right away standard quadrant.. conferencing: interwise (now AT&T Connect) .. eh adomo: low cost .. AD & Exchange. eh. SIP is coming. accept SIP. NLRAH Live Blog: Cisco TelePresence tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.166 2008-02-26T18:46:20Z 2008-02-26T21:32:29Z

@ Cisco - 49% utilization of telepresence rooms overall (10hr day) $100M cost avoidance, 12K meetings conducted with TP interoperability supported .. SIP/H3.23, H.264/CIF, G.711 works with standards-based video conferencing.. uses Unified Video Conferencing technology thinking about telepresence in the...

MATP is the main member in virginia MAX and MATP interlinked - MAX has I2, MATP has NLR MAX participants have access to several VRFs.. - NLR VRF - I2 & NLR blended BR - I2 VRF - Qwest VRF...

MATP is the main member in virginia MAX and MATP interlinked - MAX has I2, MATP has NLR MAX participants have access to several VRFs.. - NLR VRF - I2 & NLR blended BR - I2 VRF - Qwest VRF - Cogent VRF problems with this approach - multicast issue between VRFs - multicast can't cross between them - ergh, multicast NLRAH Live Blog: Using NLR (Optiputer) tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.164 2008-02-26T17:37:42Z 2008-02-26T18:15:48Z

- what would your computer be like without network bandwidth limits - $13.5M over 5 years .. now in the last year - becoming the UCSD production campus cyberinfrastructure - glimmerglass, force10 switch - becoming optiplanet - can we change things so that nlr can replace airline travel - optiportals (HD screens where you can talk to others) - CAMERA project (marine biology research) - 1 million bacteria per cc of "clean" sea water - 10x as many viruses - ~10^31 viruses on earth.. 10^21 stars in the universe - 55 40" dell displays - 225 Megapixel displays. 30 dell machines on the back - Mars rendered at 46,000 x 23,000 - 1 Gigapixel x 3 bytes/pixel, 30fps = 1 Tbps - 20-30 kW to run 225 Megapixel display NLRAH Live Blog: Optical Networking tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.163 2008-02-26T16:42:22Z 2008-02-26T16:53:44Z

- EnLIGHTened Computing / GMPLS network was the background - Test PXC switch for path resiliency - Have a Calient DiamondWave PXC 128 in Kansas City - still collecting data.. no real findings as yet NLRAH Live Blog: Research Survey, RHCPP tag:www.emillers.org,2008:/blog/kevinm//1.162 2008-02-26T15:46:22Z 2008-02-26T16:40:36Z

Survey coming out - primary use of nlr - usage patterns - tools in research that require connectivity - how do you pay for it? - videoconferencing? - other services that need to be offered? FCC RHCPP - not a grant as much as directed funds for reduced telecommunications costs - $417M has been awarded (all of the funding) - 81 proposals - 69 proposals funded - no money has changed hands yet - every component must be competitively bid - only exception is that I2 & NLR, preselected.. connections to i2/nlr don't have to be bid Proposal from Ron Hutchins - Discussion about whether framenet could be used to create a private network - Would a private network enable exchange of medical data? - Need to be encrypted?