links for 2008-05-28

Most concerning are availability SLAs that are either not tied directly to business services or incorrectly assume that server uptime equals application availability.

IBM quietly announced earlier this month to consolidate its ITCAM line from several products down to three: ITCAM for Applications, ITCAM for Microsoft and ITCAM for SOA

CorrelSense Ltd. has raised $3 million,

Take a page out of the Pragmatic security playbook. Ignore it and manage upward to the CIO and other senior managers to ensure they understand that you are focusing on the stuff that is most relevant to the business.

Integrien now provides support for virtual agent technologies from IBM, HP, Hyperic and nworks supporting for the following virtual environments:

• VMware
• Microsoft Virtual Server
• Citrix XenServer
• IBM AIX/IBM System P
• Sun Solaris Contai

BMC Software reported today that it has added two names to its executive roster. Both individuals, the company said, were formerly C-level executives at BladeLogic, the data center automation software developer that BMC acquired in April.

monitor IT and business activities on a single dashboard by converting ITCAM for SOA events for display and processing by WebSphere Business Monitor. Three sample scenarios illustrate how to define monitor models to configure WebSphere Business Monitor.

This project will allow EMC ISV partners to develop, test and eventually submit their integrations with EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager for the Designed for EMC (DFE) accreditation.

Lowering the barriers for EMC Smarts partners to experience standard EMC Smarts environment without the need to download, install and configure the product.

This blog is where I’ll wax on about performance surround the WebSphere Application Server middle-tier integration environment.

There has been an increasing demand from within Quest Software to host external blogging. As a result, we have installed WordPress MU on an externally hosted server earlier this month. Already, we have created three blogs in addition to this blog.

Customers have told us their actually scared of what BSM may mean to the IT systems and processes that they’ve built up over the past 20 years. So we’re offering them a pragmatic approach to BSM

We’ve broken down the performance roadmap into three categories:
1) Historical.
2) The Present.
3) The Future.