links for 2006-07-19

-Netuitive, Inc., the leader in real-time analysis software for business service management (BSM), today announced Netuitive SI has been certified ca smart with Unicenter(R) Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) r3.1 from CA, one of the world’s l

(tags: Netuitive bsm business-service-management)

Q1 Labs, a leading network security management company, today announced a compliance package module that is now available with QRadar(TM) v5.1.1. This focused package adds support for organizations needing to establish policy control frameworks or demonst

(tags: Q1-Labs monitoring compliance)

(tags: ITSM ITIL bestpractices alignment)

I need all the help I can get migrating to Notes and establishing a productivity management routine!

(tags: GTD lotusnotes)

(tags: lotusnotes)

GroundWork Open Source, Inc., the leader in open source-based IT operations management, today announced a series of major company milestones achieved in 2006. GroundWork continued to exceed its sales target of 25 new paying customers per quarter for Groun

(tags: OSS systemsmanagement networkmanagement monitoring)

The general notion of NGAM is that it represents the gradual convergence of asset management and service management. The logic of this is that services are the end “products” and hence the “ultimate assets” for any IT organization. Therefore, all componen

(tags: NGAM asset-management ITSM)

Start-up Hyperic launched an open-source project on Monday around its namesake software, looking to shake up enterprise management software with a low-cost product and an open-source business model.

MDB Adoption In The Real World — Just How Real Is It? Within the past 18 months, the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) has taken off like a rocket in the minds of IT adopters. However, this doesn’t mean that the market has a consistent understandi

(tags: CMDB ITSM ITIL bestpractices)

As important as ADM is becoming, understand that the technology is young and vendor implementations vary widely Some of these products use active discovery which scans the infrastructure at scheduled times. Some use passive discovery which monitors and an

(tags: appdisco app-dependencies app-topology discovery CMDB)

Acquisition positions Amdocs as a leader in OSS and the only company to offer an end-to-end OSS/BSS solution, necessary for evolution to next generation networks and more efficient operations; For the first time, a single supplier will provide a unified v

(tags: Amdocs Cramer OSS-BSS ServiceAssurance networkmanagement NCCM service-management)

Based on his observations, Michlmayr makes two suggestions for projects that want to improve their QA. In order to deal with the increased complexity, he suggests time-based release management. “By publishing a detailed release plan,” he says, “you effect

(tags: OSS release-management bestpractices ITSM ITIL)

added new workflow integrations in existing BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database, BMC Discovery, BMC Change and Configuration Management
…
“We’re delivering integration between [the former Remedy], our [former Marimba] configuration management

(tags: BMC CMDB ITIL ITSM bestpractices workflow)

Providing insight into service-level agreement issues, mValent Integrity 4.0 reveals frequency and volume of out-of-process changes. Infrastructure Change Dashboard shows changes to infrastructure of application servers, Web servers, databases, middleware

(tags: mvalent ITIL ITSM bestpractices configurationmanagement ITPA Process_Automation)