links for 2006-06-15

Managed Objects, the Business Service Management Company, today announced the availability of Managed Objects v4 and CMDB360, its next generation Configuration Management Database (CMDB) solution. CMDB360 combines a ground-breaking federation technology s

(tags: ManagedObjects BSM CMDB ITIL ITSM)

IBM today announced that analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the IT operations management software marketplace based on total software revenue for 2005. This marks the fifth consecutive year that IBM maintaine

(tags: Gartner IBM Tivoli)

Rumors have been swirling the HP or EMC would acquire Mercury Interactive, but for now the company is continuing on its own buying binge. “It’s further evidence that we want to be the acquiring company as opposed to the acquired company,” Christopher Loch

(tags: Mercury ITIL ITSM)

The searchable services are really a combination of software code, intellectual property and industry-based best practices culled from internal—think WebSphere—and partner offerings. The catalog leads users to IBM and partner software that includes pr

(tags: IBM SOA)

IBM on June 14 said that it has released software to the Apache Open Source Foundation designed to help automate the detection and remediation application or transaction problems in the data center. ADVERTISEMENT The software, implemented at IBM as a part

(tags: IBM Autonomic OSS)

Overwhelmed by current business and regulatory complexities, banks are relying on automated configuration solutions to handle hundreds or thousands of network devices.

(tags: NCCM changemanagement configurationmanagement ITIL ITSM CMDB)