• Small Flood of New Data Latency Monitors
  Israeli startup firm Correlix has come out with Latency Intelligence, software that sits on network switch mirror ports and monitors the traffic going by, combined with correlation algorithms that, the company says, can pinpoint latency to the box level.
  (tags: Correlix transx-monitoring transaction transxmgmt btm)
• Endace - Home - Network monitoring, latency measurement and application acceleration solutions with 100% packet capture
  Endace provides network monitoring, latency measurement and application solutions to capture, inspect and report on every single data packet regardless of network type or speed.
  (tags: Endace networkmanagement monitoring latency application_performance appmgmt)
• Trading Metrics
  Ensure your Trading, Operations, and Compliance departments have the visibility they need to mitigate trading risks, comply with order handling rules and gain a competitive trading advantage.
  (tags: TradingMetrics latency monitoring transaction transx-monitoring)
• Welcome to CodeStreet
  Market Data Metrics features real-time latency monitoring between the exchange and your application. It also includes latency monitoring across RMDS.
  (tags: CodeStreet latency monitoring transaction transx-monitoring)
• TS-Associates | The vendor independent financial middleware specialists
  TipOff is a real time middleware analysis appliance & provides unique capabilities in areas such as middleware operational analysis, passive latency monitoring, application behaviour validation, infrastructure utilisation chargeback and capacity planning.
  (tags: TSAssociates TipOff latency transx-monitoring transxmgmt transaction)

The month of March involved my business trip to China to learn about and work with our top banking clients and consult with them on moving towards a business aligned, top down service management architecture across each of their rapidly growing IT environments. Business Service Management (BSM) is extremely immature in China the best that I can tell and China represents a significant opportunity for vendors to gain market share within IT environments that appear to be free from some of the complexities challenging similar companies in the USA. Postings were fewer this month, but I managed to fire off a few highlighted below.

Hot Posts for March

I continue in my never ending quest for helping the traditional “tools group” or TBSM administrator to get outside their comfort zone and work on something that can position TBSM as providing value in other ways. In Seven Steps to Become a BSM Super Hero I offer a simple way that the TBSM administrator can approach the broader IT organization and create a value added solution that can position the capabilities of TBSM differently.

One of the resounding thoughts throughout my time in China was around what I’m calling “China-Scale”. This is a rambling post on thoughts about what the industry must begin thinking about to prepare for “China-Scale” and the hyper-growth happening here. In a similar thread, all of the companies in China are frantically preparing for the Olympics. They are rushing to make IT investments and deployments to ensure that the image of China is protected at all costs this year. Will they be ready?

Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) Posts

Everyone who purchases the TBSM product has visions of modeling services within their environments. Some never get there. Continuing the TBSM Design Patterns series, I introduce patterns related to modeling services, sub-services and functional areas within your environment.

On the To-Do List for April

When is a solution really a solution?
Summarizing the Opportunities in China
In Search of Transaction Management and Monitoring
What’s up with Batch Job Management?
DevCampTivoli Planning
The Next Generation of Business Service Management
Hey! You got your monitoring in my RIA!
More WYNTK on TBSM Design Patterns