links for 2008-02-28

Among the top concerns, poor visibility into performance, difficulty in isolating root causes and increased administration time ranked high in the findings.

*If they can’t manage the basics in the first place, they’ll struggle in virtual stuff for sure*

(tags: netuitive management monitoring virtualization bsm business-service-management)

TotalStorage Productivity Center performance metrics that are available for the Storage Subsystem performance reports and Switch performance report

(tags: Redbook TPC Storage monitoring)

“Games are all about the end user experience,” Ambler observed, “so they really know how to keep users engaged. That’s where enterprise developers could probably take a page from game developer handbook.”

(tags: user-experience performancemgt real-user-monitoring)

“We would be pleased if Microsoft accepted our help to increase service reliability for their Hotmail and other Web services.”

(tags: nimsoft monitoring)