links for 2007-07-20

The big standouts in the middleware family were the WebSphere lines, which rose by 28 percent, and Tivoli software, with a 33 percent uptick (Tivoli helps customers manage networks, security and storage).

(tags: IBM Tivoli financials)

BMC Software (NYSE:BMC) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of RealOps, a leading provider of run book automation solutions.

(tags: BMC Realops ITPA automation autonomiccomputing runbook)

The adage here is that less is more and following Pareto’s Principle, 20% of your metrics are going to give you 80% of the SCM information you really need to make effective management decisions.

(tags: metrics kpi kpm supplychainmanagement scm business-service-management bsm dashboards)

According to Zenoss CEO Bill Karpovich, this makes Zenoss Core the first open source IT monitoring to offer CMDB capabilities.

(tags: zenoss oss monitoring cmdb itil itsm)

With its acquisition of RealOps, announced today, BMC Software has become the first large enterprise management vendor to have a compelling story around IT process automation.

(tags: BMC Realops ITPA automation autonomiccomputing runbook M&A)

While OpenNMS’s service monitoring capabilities have always been a better alternative to the poorly designed ISMs (Internet Service Monitors), it now has the capability to replace much of the functionality of Omnibus and Impact.

(tags: opennms oss events eventmanagement IBM Tivoli netcool/omnibus netcool/impact)

The collaboration between SolarWinds and DLT Solutions enables SolarWinds to offer its network management solutions, including Orion Network Performance Monitor and SolarWinds Tools to DLT Solutions’ federal, state and local government customers.

(tags: solarwinds networkmanagement monitoring government GSA)