Month in Review – May 2008

Well, first off I wish to apologize for the lack of original content during this hectic month in my personal life (aka birth of first child).  It’s obvious when I look back and see that I only crafted a single original piece this month.  This also makes it kind of pointless to actually do a “month in review” since a  majority of my posts were links to news & articles I was able to consume over the month in between the moments of chaos.

So instead of using this post to simply apologize and say I’ll do better next month, I thought I would take the time to list off some items I have on my to do list for the month ahead.

• HP Software, round 2 – had a talk back in late April with a product executive over the performance oriented products….time to update the original write-up
• Part 5 , the final installment of the Performance/Availability vs. Analytics discussion thread
• An update to the Data Center Automation Blueprint based on the that 5 part thread
• Further discussion and impressions from my backlog of vendor briefing notes I’ve accumulated that include (in alphabetical order); CITTIO, eG innovation, GridApp Systems, InfoVista, Managed Objects, Mazu Networks & Nimsoft

I also thought it would be a good opportunity to ask you the reader to throw out some topics to ponder, investigate and discuss in the month(s) ahead.  This blog is now going on 8 months in age and it dawned upon me that I haven’t recently asked what you want to hear/talk about.  So please leave a comment (either anonymous or otherwise) on things you would like to see more dialog around.