Category — General

These are my links for November 5th through November 6th:

• CCMDB Deployer's Workbench Eclipse Plugins - Deployer's Workbench is a set of plug-ins for use within an Eclipse environment. These plug-ins provide a pluggable foundation for additional tooling for IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) to be delivered in the future. The CI space design tooling ships as a set of plug-ins for Deployer's Workbench for use within Eclipse.
• Netcool/Impact - TSRM Integration - IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager's (SRM) Netcool Impact integration enables automatic ticket generation of OMNIBus events through Netcool Impact.

  Easily extensible through the Impact Policy Editor and Tivoli Directory Integrator, this solution provides customers with the ability to map event information into SRM tickets such as incidents and service requests, and have those events updates as ticket priority and statuses change.

• Correlsense Blog - Business Transaction Management - Business Transaction Management - an up and coming paradigm in Systems and Application Performance Management. This Blog seeks to help define and track the evolution of this groundbreaking discipline.
• CA BSM Survey in Canada - According to the 2008 CA Canada Business Service Management (BSM) Survey, both business and technology managers agree that the top IT priorities for the organization during the next 12 months are aligning IT with business priorities; controlling IT costs and improving service to end users.
• Virtualization 2.0 Is All About Manageability - Requirements for "Virtualization 2.0 Ready" Monitoring Solutions
  The emphasis on monitoring and management in Virtualization 2.0 is shifting from virtual machine (VM) management to business service management; i.e., knowing how a business service is performing and which domains (network, server, VM, applications) are working properly and which are not. Hence, it's no longer sufficient to just monitor the uptime or resource usage levels of virtual machines and physical servers and believe that the entire IT infrastructure is working well.
• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) - Cordys, leader in next generation BPM - Monitoring your business activities for increased process visibility and control

  Business Activity Monitoring is a key component of the Cordys Business Operations Platform, a leading product for next generation BPM. High performing business processes are crucial for the success of a business. Only with tight control and real-time monitoring of every crucial business activity and all processes, are companies able to act fast on business opportunities, respond quickly to process or activity inefficiencies, ensure that business processes run smoothly, and guarantee that critical business services are available.

• Boycott Novell » Going Out of Business Together with Novell - Novell will acquire Managed Objects pretty soon, but the prospects of this move are strongly being doubted. A few days ago we gave one example (down at the bottom) and the following new article warns that businesses which bet on Novell for BSM could suffer the same fate as Novell (diminishing business).

Links that I have found interesting for November 4th:

• Finally. ?How to Manage Your IT Services. - Jump-start your BSM or ITIL initiative. Meet the changing demands of your business landscape. Provide tangible evidence of alignment. Move beyond the image of IT as a cost center. Be seen as an innovator and business enabler.

Links that I have found interesting for November 4th:

• Novell's Management Quest May Leave Growing Businesses Behind - Novell's move into the business service management market makes competitive sense for the company. However, with entry-level pricing starting at $100,000, and many implementations topping $1 million, it's an odd fit for Novell's focus on small and midsize businesses.
• :: Zyrion Business Service Assurance :: - Zyrion was founded to address the evolving business service management needs of enterprises given the increased complexity of IT infrastructures that include distributed applications, virtualization, SOA and cloud computing. Zyrion's technology determines the impact of infrastructure problems on IT services.
  Business Service Assurance

  Zyrion's mission is to unravel the complexity of managing IT infrastructure by offering a Business Service Management solution that is easy to use for large to mid-level enterprises. Zyrion's products are designed to align IT with the needs of the business by providing IT information that is relevant to managing the day-to-day operations of the business.

Links that I have found interesting for October 31st:

• Compuware 2.0: still crazy after all these years? - According to Compuware’s Paul though, refocusing Compuware will keep it in good shape for the next 35 years. “We had miscellaneous ‘skunkworks’ projects going on, marketing programs that were done on a one-off basis – lots of inefficiencies,” he says. “We needed to create a vision for what the company is doing in fiscal 2009, and that is what Compuware 2.0 is all about.”

  Will Paul and CEO Karmanos think about spinning off product lines that are no longer seen as core? “We will support our customers,” says Paul. “To put it obtusely, we are looking at all options. Breaking things apart or spinning them off could be one of those.”

  Summing up Compuware 2.0, Paul adds: “We’re creating an environment for optimising IT performance. We are global, cool, innovative. We wanted Compuware 2.0 to highlight the best of where the company has been, with something a little edgy. Right, wrong or indifferent, we want to be noticed. Heck, it got your attention!”

Links that I have found interesting for October 30th:

• Rivermuse: open source Fault Management system - We don’t believe that fault management customers are realizing the value they should from their vendors’ offerings so we’ve launched RiverMuse to bring a fair deal to the market.
  RiverMuse represents a Revolution, it's a commodity open source Fault Management system, where the benefits always outweigh its total cost of ownership!

  RiverMuse is the free alternative to IBM Tivoli Netcool, IBM Tivoli, and HP OpenView brought to you by the original founding team of Micromuse and RiverSoft. Come join the revolutionary RiverMuse Community in delivering the mother of all fault management solutions that goes where no network management offering has gone before.

Links that I have found interesting for October 29th:

• TechRepublic Names ASG’s metaCMDB One of Top 10 Products - ASG Software Solutions, the originator of ASG's Business Service Portfolio (BSP), recently announced that TechRepublic has named ASG’s metaCMDB as one of the top 10 most influential products exhibited at the 2008 Gartner Symposium ITxpo.

Links that I have found interesting for October 29th:

• Novell's Managed Objects' BSM buy spurs industry discussion - Forrester analysts express concern that Managed Objects, an innovator in BSM, could go the way of a fellow management player SMARTS that seems to have gotten fully absorbed into EMC since being acquired in 2004.

Links that I have found interesting for October 24th:

• Compuware Final Financial Results for Q2 Show Strength in Product Commitments, Maintenance Fees - "The company's transformational Compuware 2.0 initiative continues to have a positive impact on operations," said Paul. "Additionally, we remain on track to launch the company's long-term strategy in late November. Through this plan, Compuware will deliver a significant opportunity for growth and improved organizational efficiency."
• Service-now.com Hires Gadi Yedwab as VP of Product Development - Service-now.com, the pioneer of on-demand IT service management, todayannounced Gadi Yedwab has joined the company in the newly created positionof vice president of product development. Yedwab joins Service-now.com fromQuest Software with 20 years of experience managing and developingsuccessful enterprise software companies and products. Yedwab will beresponsible for Service-now.com development, support, operations, usercommunities and documentation.
• Another view on the difference between SOA managment and SOA governance - The tactical (or business management) dimension provides a number of business activity monitoring and analytics capabilities that enable some human agent to watch over business operations,identifying opportunities and diagnosing problems as they occur so as to ensure that the services supporting a given business task are performing in accordance with service level objectives. Tactical services management provides end-to-end visibility and control over all parts of a long-lived, multi-step process that spans multiple applications and human actors in one or more enterprises.