Looking at Cloud (and Management) as a Complex Adaptive System – Digital Nibbles Podcast episode 19

Manageability has been called the toughest problem to solve in the data center. What happens when you have to extend that to also managing your cloud? James Urquhart, VP of Product Strategy at enStratus, stops by to discuss the problem of managing a massively interconnected system when different agents have their own rules for interacting with a system and apps can have effects on other apps multiple steps down the chain. For more information, James blogs at: http://gigaom.com/author/jurquhart/.