Interesting Links for September 4th

Links that I have found interesting for September 4th:

• N(i)² – N(i)² provides software solutions designed to improve visibility and control over the increasingly complex IT infrastructures that businesses rely on for effective and profitable operations.

  By consolidating and sharing knowledge across organizational silos – and by adding certainty to change management processes – N(i)² solutions enable improved resource optimization, more dependable business continuity and enhanced IT governance practices.

  * Resource Optimization
  Our technology enables you to maintain a repository of detailed infrastructure configurations, assembled from every silo in the IT organization. This single version of the truth enables you to be aware of the IT resources that are over- or under-utilized, and those that are not used at all.

  * Risk Mitigation to drive Business Continuity
  * Governance

• BlueStripe Software – Application Service Management for VMware Server Platforms Process-level Service Discovery, Management, and Problem Triage

  Application Owners and VMware Administrators agree that business application availability is the most important objective. The challenge is to provide the necessary application management visibility while embracing the flexibility of the new virtual platforms and the existing real hardware platforms.

  BlueStripe is the only management company that allows VMware Adminstrators and Application Administrators to perform:

  * Application Discovery & Mapping
  * Application-level Health & Performance
  * Automatic Triage of application & server problems

  Whether in QA, staging, or at deployment time, BlueStripe gives you complete visibility to applications running on virtual and physical servers to understand where your applications are running, their dependencies, and how well they are running.