links for 2008-05-16

BSM is the holy grail of good IT management, and achieving it using the current crop of tools from the “big four” vendors is about as hard as finding the real holy grail. The world needs a simpler, less expensive, more responsive way of achieving BSM.

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The other responded with a classic – “Don’t they have their own tools for this?” – meaning, not the CMDB.

** This is basically what I was told our strategy was **