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Systems management is such a complex problem especially for large enterprises that large product suites from a single vendor will struggle to keep up with the demand for a constantly evolving systems management landscape.

“Business people recognize the events that matter, IT rarely does.”

** This is all great stuff — BUT — Why isn’t anyone talking about operationalizing this stuff??

This means managers must become more adept at using real-time monitoring tools to do real-time management. Collaboration and teaming become more important with a matching shift from command/control to more coaching.

IBM seems to have a big focus on business events and business policies. Business Event Processing is about when to act and Business Policy is about what to do.

Telecom services provider NetworkIP is using the Vertica Analytic Database to supercharge a key business offering for its customers, enabling them to query nearly ten times more call detail record (CDR) data more than 200 times faster than before,

Xcelsius Engage allows customers to point and click their way to departmental and operational dashboards that deliver real-time visibility into business performance in simple, easy-to-understand visual models.

CEE™ standardizes events. By using CEE’s common language and syntax, enterprise-wide log management, correlation, aggregation, auditing, and incident handling can be performed more efficiently and produce better results than was possible prior to CEE.