New start up Akorri founder Rich Corley is hitting the nail on the head here. I called this “Application Profiles or Application Performance Signatures” back when I was preaching about doing the same thing while at ELNK in ‘02-’03 as part of my “Zero Latency Operations Center” initiative. Focusing on the cross-domain / organizational silo is key here. If what Rich is working on can help close the organizational silo gap as well and be truely service centric he may have a winner here.

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“After leaving Sun in 2004 I continued to think about this problem. It occurred to me that the only way to truly solve this complexity issue was to fully understand the “cross-domain” (i.e., server, network, and storage) technologies that 1) make up the data center, 2) characterize the applications requirements for the infrastructure, and 3) use advance analytical techniques to pull it all together.”

“I realized that if I could characterize, or “fingerprint” an application and use that fingerprint information against a mathematical representation of the infrastructure then I could bring the knowledge needed to effectively control the data services and virtual resources. My challenge was to bring together infrastructure and application engineers along with mathematicians to work on this complex problem. I felt it was a perfect problem for a startup to attack. Being able to get a small, focused, diverse set of people together in order to solve a complex issue is what startups are best at.

So with that understanding I founded Akorri. With many man years of development already behind us, we’ve produced our first product, BalancePoint. BalancePoint will give IT administrators the visibility and knowledge they need in order to troubleshoot, optimize and plan around their complex environments.”

I attended the Atlanta Tivoli User Group meeting last week and John Willis of Capital Software spoke on ITM 6.1 Best Practices. This guy is one of “the gurus” of all things Tivoli Monitoring. I picked up quite a bit of useful information from what the ITM 6.1 product can do and how we can pick real time status and metrics information from the TEMS components for use in real-time Netcool/RAD 3.0 (TBSM 4.1) based solutions.

The former Netcool/SSM, ASM, USM products are now part of the ITM family and their architecture and operational practices are being incorporated into the next generation of ITM products. From what I’ve seen, these products will be pretty slick and make both sides of the systems monitoring agent camps happy.

John also publishes a newsletter for Capital Software about all things Tivoli and systems/network management here.