links for 2008-05-29

• IBM Tivoli Pulse: Tivoli product updates and cloud confusion
  Clearly, Tivoli’s ambition is to roll these two disparate disciplines into one, expanding the idea of “infrastructure” out from just computers and software needed to support the business, taking on a maximal scope for Business Service Management.
  (tags: Ibm tivoli PUlse review)
• IBM pushes for greater IT automation - Network World
  Customers shouldn’t need to engage in a services contract to get IBM’s extensive process expertise loaded into the vendor’s software products.
  (tags: IBM Tivoli pulse review)
• ????? - Excellence
  For the last 3 years I have specialized in Enterprise Management in general and in Tivoli in particular. I have been employed by IBM since 2007.
  (tags: IBM GTS Blog Tivoli Monitoring)
• Integrien Alive software addresses virtual performance - Network World
  The software discovers the path an application takes across the infrastructure to deliver IT services and then determines a baseline of normal behavior to alert users when any components don’t live up to normal standards.
  (tags: Integrien Alive analytics virtualization vm management m onitoring)
• VMware to Acquire B-hive Networks to Further Enhance Virtualization Platform With Application Performance Management
  VMware will leverage the B-hive team and technology to offer proactive performance management and service level reporting for applications running within VMware virtual machines - on both servers and desktops.
  (tags: VMWare virtualization management monitoring appmgmt application_performance)
• ASG on verge of massive BSM Acquisition
  With its roots in mainframe performance management products, the company evolved into systems management, and now puts itself in the business service management (BSM) camp.
  (tags: ASG bsm business-service-management m&a)
• ASG On Verge of Massive BSM Acquisition
  “The cost of Sarbanes can make a 5-10% difference on pre-tax profit,” said Allen. “For that reason I don’t believe there will be any companies still public with revenue of less than $100m. They will all be acquired or merge with each other.”
  (tags: ASG bsm business-service-management M&A)
• generationE Technologies to Focus on IBM Service Management Domain
  “Adv in platform technologies together with strategic acquisitions by the major software providers has finally enabled serious solution providers to provide a fully integrated set of Service Management and Service Assurance solutions by a single vendor,”
  (tags: generatione ibm tivoli)
• Oracle Real User Experience Insight
  Oracle Real User Experience Insight enables enterprises to maximize the value of their business critical applications by delivering insight into real end user experiences
  (tags: oracle user-experience monitoring application_performance moniforce)
• Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager Business Application Builder
  The tool also allows creating and deleting BA. It also allows keeping the BA up-to-date, by looking at new relationships for the CIs that are part of a BA and adding the related CIs to the BA.
  (tags: IBM Tivoli TADDM appdisco modeling OPAL)
• TELUS selects Alcatel-Lucent’s ReachView to deploy Next Generation Service Management Platform
  TELUS (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) has selected ReachView Technologies, an Alcatel-Lucent company, to deploy IBM Tivoli Netcool software into its network to deliver superior service and value to its customers while positioning the company for long-term growth.
  (tags: ReachView Telus businesspartners)

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