links for 2008-02-06
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nfoVista weighed in on top market and technology trends ahead in 2008 and issued its own forecasts predicting how service providers and enterprises will drive their businesses forward in the new year.
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Seamlessly assuring the live performance of Ethernet services by extending the reach of SLAs across multiple technologies from End-to-End, Accedian’s Ethernet Service Assurance Platform (ESAP)…
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To help us better understand the problems and some of the new solutions and approaches to remediation and detection of IT issues, we’re joined by Steve Henning, the Vice President of Products for Integrien
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This book provides information valuable to those who want to plan for, customize and use the IBM Tivoli CCMDB product to automate and manage change and configuration processes in their environments.
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Skytide and Corda Technologies offer an end-to-end analytics and reporting solution, enabling organizations to collect data from virtually any data set, perform detailed analysis on it and present it in an interactive, customizable dashboards.
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OpTier has emerged as the leader in Business Transaction Management … clients expanded their deployments more broadly across the enterprise to achieve the goal of aligning their IT infrastructure with a dynamic business environment
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PureShare ActiveMetrics platform, SingleView IT provides an in-depth view of ITSM operations that is ideal for managers of help desks, network operations centers and call centers who require quick access to timely and accurate status information
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PureShare® is a metrics management software vendor that develops proactive, web-based corporate performance monitoring and enterprise reporting applications.
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InforSense provides a platform for building and delivering intelligence to all users in an enterprise by embedding analytics into your business processes.
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Using a drag and drop environment, VisualSense allows users to create highly interactive reports and dashboards consisting of linked charts and tables.
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But not all the tools on Doug’s list do the same thing. in a complex world, not all end-user performance management tools manage the same thing.
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Sal revealed the challenges and successes of developing this slick network management tool.(tags: PacketTrap development)
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Complexity makes previous error prevention approaches for operators inefficient and costly. IT staffs are expensive to retain, and are increasingly hard to find and insufficient information about what’s going on in the context of an entire systems setup(tags: integrien)
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Apache JMeter may be used to test performance both on static and dynamic resources (files, Servlets, Perl scripts, Java Objects, Data Bases and Queries, FTP Servers and more).
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While Gomez Inc. and Keynote Systems currently dominate the market in performance monitoring services, monitoring services marketplace also includes smaller companies such as AlertSite, Empirix and Tealeaf.
February 5, 2008 No Comments
If you think Business Service Management is “pie in the sky”, consider this
What’s the future hold for Business Service Management (BSM)? Well, if John and many analysts are right it’s really going to be “in the sky” with the emergence of cloud computing. Read some of John’s thoughts on the topic in “Demystifying Clouds”.
The motivation for cloud computing is usually to control costs, standardize, eliminate headcount, reduce impact of change, etc. All of these link back to the goals and objectives of the business - control costs and make money. John and I talk about this stuff a lot. Everything has an angle back to BSM in one way or another. If you’re like most of the clients I see these days who struggle with the basics of IT management and monitoring, your future isn’t going to get much easier. Just look at where we are in terms of Virtual Machine management and monitoring today, we’re still stuck in the old way of doing things.
I expect John to dive into more of the gory details as he posts more, but the tenants of BSM must be thought of even more within a utility compute or cloud computing environment. If you’re not thinking about the end game, you’re just jumping on the bandwagon. BSM and the ability to instrument to have the necessary visibility into what’s happening at all levels in the cloud is critical. All of this must be tied back into a central repository for managing business services, applications and transactions in the cloud environment. This isn’t just CI or CMDB stuff here, this is end-to-end services with the necessary alignment with the business.
If you’re a cloud computing, utility, grid or other virtual player, John and I would like to talk to you about supporting DevCampTivoli. The theme is “Collaborative Development of End-to-End Business Service Management Solutions” and you may be able to help by providing a virtual environment, business service or application that would be at the core of this initiative in May. I see huge opportunities for someone to offer a “development environment in a box” where IT management and monitoring practitioners around the world (read IBM, HP, CA, BMC, Hyperic, Zenoss, etc. clients) can “turn up” business services and applications and develop appropriate IT management and monitoring solutions within their own cloud environments. This becomes a very affordable dev-test-release to production enabler!
February 5, 2008 No Comments
