links for 2008-05-24

• Network Computing Blog | The BSM Debate
  My recent article on BSM generated more e-mail than just about any other story this year. What was most interesting were the different (and diametrically opposed) perspectives that I saw.

  ** Where’s my comments on this post? **

  (tags: bsm business-service-management networkcomputing windward-consulting-group)
• Vendor Goes After SMBs With BSM Offering
  “You can look at the ‘health’ of all your data-center stuff in relation to how smoothly, or not, the business is running,” said Michael Coté, an analyst with Redmonk.
  (tags: bsm business-service-management firescope firescopebe redmonk)
• Business Service Management: A New Approach for Quick Wins
  despite their potential benefits, BSM initiatives can be daunting. This session presents practical advice designed to help you avoid pitfalls and achieve quick wins right now!
  (tags: bsm business-service-management analyst netuitive forrester)
• Pulse 2008: IBM simplifies IT service management to facilitate business and IT convergence
  (tags: ovum ibm tivoli pulse)
• Firescope crushes the BSM price point
  I can’t help but think Firescope is onto something. The company is achieving an 8% conversion rate from downloads. That is high by any standards. In those larger deployments: NASDAQ and Slumberland are customers - Firescope offers a deeper range …
  (tags: firescope firescopebe bsm business-service-management bsm4smb bsm4lob bsm4bu)
• The Megavendors In IT Management Software by Jean-Pierre Garbani, Peter O’Neill - Forrester Research
  weakness of the US domestic market will lead to increased competition between these megavendors in both the US market and abroad, where currency exchange rates make markets even more attractive.

  **Anyone have access?*

  (tags: big4 forrester analyst management vendors market)
• BMCDN : BMC Foundation Discovery and BMC Topology Discovery 1.5.01 Performance and Scalability
  This white paper summarizes the BMC Foundation Discovery and BMC Topology Discovery 1.5.01 performance and scalability lab test results.
  (tags: bmc discovery appdisco topology relationships)
• 100% Cotton: Mr. Strong you Arrogant Bad Boy!!
  Challenge: “Make Managed Object’s products available for download as part of a free trial, publish your prices and the real cost of and the timeframe of implementing your products. Then let the customers decide what solution delivers against their needs”
  (tags: bsm business-service-management firescope firescopebe managedobjects)
• The FireBlog: Toss it over the wall
  No one wants to put themselves through so much pain to end up with a solution that’s collecting dust a year after deployment because it was too hard to maintain.
  (tags: bsm business-service-management firescope firescopebe)
• Managed Objects Names Vice President of Product Strategy
  announced that it has named Abbas Haider Ali as Vice President of Product Strategy

  ** Hmm, little mention of a BSM background? **

  (tags: managedobjects bsm business-service-management)
• Adventures of a Technical MasterMind: IBM Pulse 2008 - Review
  Some things which are bad and make no sense:
  * Lack of clarity in strategy for Webtop vs TBSM (which customers seem to build BSM on Webtops).
  * ITCAM is total junk, and is years behind competing products from HP (Mercury).
  (tags: ibm tivoli pulse review opinion feedback netcool tbsm webtop)

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