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Some time ago I wrote and article called Free the Gladiators about the negative aspects of having uber-certified experts, which I called Gladiators, with deep knowledge about one topic, and how I think the more one knows about one topic then the more inertia you have.

Later this month I’m presenting on the same topic, this time titled “The Collapse of IT Silos and The Rise of the Data Center Engineer”.  Who says technology can’t drive change, Mr ITIL?  Time to eat those words, and change your religion while you’re at it.

I’m doing various pieces of research and one is to get some input from my handful of Dear Readers: what kind of Gladiator are YOU?

When I look at the profiles of people I am acquainted with on Twitter, their Blogs and LinkedIn, it amazes me how multi-skilled they are with certifications in multiple disciplines.  Networking, storage, virtualization – these guys do it all!

Scott Lowe, now of EMC, is one of my favourite examples: he can configure a Nexus 5K switch one minute, and be deploying vSphere HA the next, and has time to do analyst type work.  Great hire, EMC!  Another is my team mate, Chris Paggen, who, like Scott, is also an author, CCIE, VCP and knows more about IT than I thought possible: think Spock but with a wicked sense of humour   I’m lucky to work with both of them.

Scott is the guy I’ve previously put on the Data Center Engineer pedestal: he’s skilled in multiple data center disciplines and even where he’s not knowledgeable he can work with a vendor expert in that area.  This kind of multi-talented individual is critical to any IT organization, be they an end-user enterprise, service provider or vendor.  Chris is another example with different strengths, but he could also do “anything” in today and tomorrow’s data center.

But how many Scott Lowes and Chris Paggens are out there?  I need to find out how many I know, what they are doing, and what they think.  So I put a little Google Docs form together to find out.

Five questions, should take you five minutes.  It’s little investment on your part but you’ll be doing me a huge favour!

Tell me what kind of Gladiator you are by answering five simple questions – THANKS!

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Cheers to @bobolig and @stevie_chambers for raising this very important issue for Data Center Solution Integrators; more specifically, the need to trusted advisor firms to be customer needs relevant over the silos of traditional structure. We look forward to moving the needle creating DataCenter oriented trusted advisor VAR firms at @solutionspath.

by Michael Bettiol on February 5th, 2010 at 6:19am

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It might have legal issues galore thanks to Chandra Rathakrishnan’s legendary row with Michael Arrington, but the internet tablet formerly known as the CrunchPad has finally entered into production and should begin shipping later this month. To retail for $499 USD, the JooJoo features a 12.1″ multi-touch capacitive display with native resolution of 1366 x 768, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, 4GB SSD, front-facing camera, accelerometer, support for Flash (HD Flash will be all systems go when 10.1 comes out of beta) as well as a bunch of givens like integrated speakers, a 3.5mm headphone jack and USB port. Also announced today is Fusion Garage’s intent to open an app web store in which JooJoo owners will be able to grab whatever developers can make using some proprietary “but standards driven” APIs. Rathakrishnan et al are rather confident that their device will be able to take on competitors such as the HP Slate and Apple iPad, even going so far as to say of the later that the JooJoo is bigger, fully supports Flash (the real internet) and will beat its major competitors to the market, but one has to wonder what it’s all for in a day and age where most people are brand-conscious to the point where they’ll often turn away from something far better. We guess you have to start somewhere. 

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Tags: Bluetooth, capacitive, Flash, Flash 10.1, Fusion Garage, HD Flash, JooJoo, multi-touch, SSD, tablet, Wi-Fi

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   John Ellenich says:

   February 5, 2010 at 1:07 PM

   This comment has been seriously disliked. Click here to see.

    

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  eazid says:

  February 5, 2010 at 2:26 PM

  Since a large amount of the website nowadays use flash.

   

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  Mark says:

  February 5, 2010 at 2:58 PM

  Your iPad? I didn’t know they were actually a shipping product yet. Where did you get yours from?

  The whole flash-is-the-internet-or-not discussion has been had in many places already:

  http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/blue_boxes

   

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  MobileGuru says:

  February 5, 2010 at 4:41 PM

  Im guessing that your an apple fanboy? Which means ur the brand conscious type? which also means u have money to burn?

   

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  Joe says:

  February 5, 2010 at 3:24 PM

  Boo Apple fanboys, the iPad is a GIANT miss for Apple. It is a giant iPhone and offers nothing new, I have absolutely no idea why anybody wouldn’t want this over that piece of junk. Other than blindness from the Cupertino hype machine.

   

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  iamajimm says:

  February 5, 2010 at 3:44 PM

  The ipad is basicly a content consumer;it’s mission is to take you to the istore where you can buy surprise all of the goodies there. it’s an enterainment device (with potential, I grant you). all of the behind scenes lining up of the print media should have been a big clue. crApple is taking dead aim at Amazon/Kindle, period. after that, the rest of the wwworld.

   

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  Ekdizz says:

  February 5, 2010 at 6:30 PM

  I love Flash.

  No wait.

  I love HTML5.

  No wait.

  I love Flash.

  No wait.

  I love HTML5.

   

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  Bloobo says:

  February 5, 2010 at 11:27 PM

  i want a joojoo!!!!

   

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  Diabl0 says:

  February 6, 2010 at 2:38 AM

  Maybe Joojoo feels the tablet-fever that’s why they’re still pursuing the production of this device. Either way, I support them, not that I’m hoping too much, but them bringing another tablet to the table brings a new type of competition, which in somehow the users might benefit.

  ,,JooJoo: Tablet for the who details: http://bit.ly/joojoo-who-tablet

  Thanks victoria

   

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When you’re on your way out of a job, there’s a lot of fun ways to exit. Some choose to take all the staplers in the office, some show up to the last day in shorts, some pull a Jerry Maguire. And some tweet out a haiku.

That’s exactly what Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz did tonight. Here’s his tweet:

Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more

Really, what more needs to be said?

Schwartz had been serving as Sun’s CEO since 2006; prior to that he was the company’s COO. It has been known that he would resign for several days now following Sun’s sale to Oracle, which the EU just approved.

Schwartz has always enjoyed this type of public discourse, as he continued to blog in a time when very few CEOs would dare do such a thing. His latest post was on January 27, describing what he’d be doing next.

As for where life takes me next, you should follow me via Twitter at openjonathan to find out. I’ll also be rehosting this blog (and again, stay tuned to Twitter by following me here). I expect to do my part to keep things interesting.

Indeed. Tonight he started that off with a bang (and we love the two self-promotion links).

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Last Tuesday, Google launched a new Google Voice mobile web app for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher and Palm Web OS devices, harnessing the power of HTML5, a new web technology that makes it possible to run faster, richer web-based applications right in the browser.

While this appication is web based, it provides real time access to your communication brain. Check it out today!

Until now, sending a text message to multiple recipients required copying and pasting the message for each recipient.

To make this a bit easier, we just launched the ability to send a single SMS message to multiple recipients. Just click on the SMS button at the top of your Google Voice inbox, enter names or numbers (separated by commas) in the "To" field, write your message and click send.

Replies from each recipient will be threaded into separate conversations, so you can keep track of them in your Google Voice inbox. To prevent spam, we've set a maximum of five recipients per message.

This feature is also available from the Chrome extension and we'll also be adding it to the Google Voice mobile app soon.

We hope you like this new feature, and as always, welcome your feedback.

Posted by Greg Hecht, Member of Tech Staff

I have been using Google Voice since it was "grandcentral". While the transcription remains hit or miss, the ability to have someone call a single number and it follows to whatever phone I chose or rings all at once. A single voicemail to check is a nice timesaver. Check it out today if your a road warrior or just dislike checking multiple voicemail systems. BTW, have customized messages for individuals and groups is a pretty sweet feature as well.

A very interesting next few months will be filled with hands on use of the iPad as well as more information (rumored) regarding Google's HTC built tablet. Wow! Technology (R)evolution is heating up in my humble opinion.

Several chinks are appearing in the way we've historically separated voice from data, 3G from traditional cellular, and international calling from domestic calling. With many businesses and individuals fixated on cost savings, some industry developments have cropped up to help avoid or at least reduce international roaming fees.

For example, as of last week, Google Voice is now officially an iPhone app at the Apple App Store and is also available for the Palm Pre. Outbound calls use the AT&T voice network to connect the call but route it through Google Voice. So the Google Voice phone number is the source calling number, which should avoid afford the opportunity to avoid international long-distance charges.

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More recently, on the fixed-mobile convergence front, CPE maker Agito Networks addressed the issue of international roaming charges by building support for VoIP over 3G into its RoamAnywhere Mobility Router. Traditionally, the mobility router has handed off voice calls between the circuit-switched cellular voice network and Wi-Fi, depending on user location, for least-cost routing.

Indeed, voice over Wi-Fi is one way to avoid roaming and long-distance fees -- so long as it's available. If there's no Wi-Fi but a 3G network service is available (say, in a taxicab), enterprises using Agito's Mobility Router can now make VoIP calls over that network.

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Why is this less expensive?

The carriers offer a "$20 unlimited international data plan," says Pej Roshan, Agito founder, who says he doesn't necessarily expect customers to use the feature in the domestic U.S. where unlimited voice calling plans are available.

Meanwhile, individual users are finding creative ways to keep costs down, too. A user I discovered in an online community last week says he is working in Brazil while attending to a family matter. He has used Skype to forward calls from his iPhone to a prepaid local GSM cell phone, which he says has "worked flawlessly" and has dropped costs from $2.50 per minute in roaming fees to $.03 to $.23 per minute in Skype fees.

Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in Silicon Valley.

Very important potential impact on cellular operators.

Multitouch just got multi-interesting. We all knew that Google was working with HTC and T-Mobile for a fix to the pesky 3G stability issues on the Nexus One, but the update is getting a wee bit more. Actually, a whole lot more when you consider that multitouch isn’t typically supported on the Google apps in Android. It is now — or at least, it will be when I get my over-the-air update. Engadget caught the news on the official Nexus One blog run by Google. Here’s a quick hit list of the updates that are rolling out this week:

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• Google Goggles will now appear as a default app. This is the software that allows you to search by snapping pictures of objects with the camera on the Nexus One. I’ve tried it on a G1 and the results were hit or miss, but I expect improvements over time.
• Google Maps is updated to version 3.4. Starred map items will sync between handset and computer, search suggestions from Google history appear, and there’s a new night mode in Google Navigation — the display will change automatically at night. These improvements appear to further extend a seamless experience in Google services between the desktop world and handheld world.
• Improvements to the 3G connectivity. This is what nearly everyone’s been waiting for, so the other features are almost icing on the cake.
• Pinch-to-zoom functionality. Google’s enabling it in their Browser, Gallery and Maps software. I’ve been living without it, but the mobile experience is generally better with multitouch, so I’m looking forward to this.

The only question left is: why now? Why is Google choosing this moment to add multitouch? Actually, this begets even more questions. Will Apple have anything to say about it? Will other Android handsets see the same updates soon?

Very impressive enhancements!