links for 2008-02-26

Bottom line, even though the community product is free, we came to the conclusion we rather pay $2500 (to Solarwinds for Orion) and get something that has been polished up and is much, much easier to use then work with ZenOSS when it comes to monitoring..

(tags: zenoss oss monitoring reviews)

Continued dependence on a bottom-up approach to IT operations will cost enterprises millions of dollars in lost revenue and productivity annually

(tags: bsm business-service-management alignment top-down bottom-up management monitoring bsm_value)

Xangati focuses on delivering its RPI solution by providing IT with knowledge of the application experience of every endpoint. By taking an “endpoint-in” approach, the IT organization is in a position to be the First to Respond instead of their end users.

(tags: xangati monitoring application_performance top-down)

announced a new innovation for companies implementing Configuration Management Databases. Netuitive Service Analyzer now helps maximize the return on CMDB investments by augmenting Configuration Item (CI) data for end-to-end IT performance management

(tags: netuitive cmdb performancemgt analytics bsm business-service-management)

pursuing business-driven IT, don’t lose sight of the fundamentals, effectiveness, simplicity (to the degree possible), and constant communication. Host cross project/initiative forums with key players (project managers, architects and business analysts)

(tags: alignment business-service-management bsm it-alignment)

The Service Portfolio and Catalog Language (SPACL) proposal provides a standards-based framework that will allow Service Catalog information to be shared with other IT functional areas and to promote the exchange of Service Portfolio and Catalog content

(tags: servicecatalog serviceportfolio SPACL itmanagementguys)

Cynergy Systems was brought in to help with the task of visualizing complex computer network topologies in a web interface. The Flex framework provides everything that you need to dynamically load and render complex socially related data structures .

(tags: flex flash adobe visualization dashboards)