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This was a great talk! Brent Chapman. He suggest using the Incident Command System approach, which is a method created by the US government in the ’70 designed to be used in emergency situations, is to be used in IT based incidents. The whole way a public incident is handled has a lot of overlap with how an IT based incident should be handled. When Brent was talking i made a little clip about him explaining an example. This after he explained the whole concept about ICS, so it might not be completly understandable (for questions leave comments). (Parts of) this method will be very applicable to the handling of incidents at IC&S.

I’ll talk about this later on.

I’ve created a little clip about the first morning here at Velocity (all the way down in this post). I must say, some of the items are interesting; Javier from Hyperic announced a very nice platform (Cloudstatus) that measure cloud performance. Since cloud computing is a center point in our new Jitscale service (site will be available soon) the measurement of the quality of the cloud is very important for both the quality of the service as well as monitoring the area’s of improvement. Other items are not too good to handle while having a jetlag. I’m blaming it on the jetlag for now.. Currently we’re attending a session about Content Distribution Networks (like Akamai, Limelight). It’s not too bad but because it a panel based session it’s not really a coherent story.

To describe the quality of the session: Bart has grabed and put down his laptop for about six times already

More later!

Update: Whoops forgot to include the movie!

Bart just posted a video we just saw here at Velocity, extremely cool:

So, this morning we got up early (got to love those jetlags) and are now in the middle of the first couple of keynotes. Made a little clip about the space here, it’s included below. I’m now going to focus on the KITE presentation, a supposedly really cool tool about performance measuring site performance. More later!