From the monthly archives:

November 2006

Is there such a product or capability in a product that could do enterprise wide scheduling and calendaring? What I’m interested in is not related to people, meeting, conference room scheduling, but more along the lines of enterprise planning, BI, etc. where one could input into such a solution that ‘between the hours of 12pm and 2pm’ are the most critical hours of the day for this business service, application, transaction. Or something that could be the repository for killer business impact information based on BI type data feeds, etc. Or something that bleeds into service catalog/IT cost & usage that could track costs/impacts/revenues for use of business and IT services during a certain period, from a certain location, etc.?

Not sure if this is an SLA type tool as SLA’s and OLA’s may not always necessarily be involved. Something more along the lines of an uber-business-intelligence knowledgebase that’s business service, application, process, transaction, flow, etc. aware.

Just curious…

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links for 2006-11-29

by delicious on November 29, 2006

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IBM acquires Vallent

I’d been seeing interesting Google hits land on my blog for this for months now. This helps fill out some gaps in network quality and performance management and monitoirng in service provider networks, specifically wireless and radio access networks. This will be part of the Netcool pillar under the Tivoli brand. From the PR: (link [...]

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links for 2006-11-28

Evident Software Solutions Overview Evident Software provides solutions that help enterprise IT managers identify and eliminate inefficiencies in their infrastructures, bring supply and demand of IT resources into equilibrium, and price services based on actual usa (tags: ITAM usagemgmt demandmgmt chargeback asset-management asset-service-utilization)

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links for 2006-11-23

IBM Unveils Flurry of New Service Products – Outsourcing News by InformationWeek IBM on Tuesday introduced a range of combined software and services offerings designed to help businesses automate monitoring IT asset performance and service agreements. IBM says it will price the offerings more like software products than services, star (tags: IBM Tivoli Process_Managers ITSM [...]

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links for 2006-11-22

ZipTie ZipTie is a framework for Network Inventory Management. The software is free to download, use, and distribute. **Does/will it do discovery of network topology, relationships, ciruits, interfaces, protocol configurations, etc…. (tags: AlterPoint configurationmanagement networkmanagement OSS) Cisco vs. OpenView and Tivoli? – Network World Cisco one day would like to be known as much for [...]

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Tivoli Netcool/RAD 3.0 Enabling Business Service Management or Business Activity Monitoring

I worked up a pretty slick demo for a client this week who expressed an interest in Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) as part of their Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Websphere MQ/Message Broker/ESB evaluations. I’ve had many thoughts on this topic from my past, but the work on this demo and [...]

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Network Performance Blog

Found this today (this AM) that NetQoS is putting out. Looks like a good resource on many good topics near and dear to me. http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/

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