Links that I have found interesting for September 9th:
- OpTier Unveils CoreFirst 3.0; Delivers True End-to-End Business Transaction Management – In the Forrester Research, Inc. report titled "Business Service Management Market Update" issued on July 3, 2008 by Peter O'Neill, the analyst states, "It has become clear that IT has been too preoccupied with its own processes in the past — even calling them services — and it must now pay more attention to the performance of the business services that it ultimately supports with technology."
CoreFirst 3.0 is the only product to offer automatic, continuous discovery of the links between business services and IT components without any manual modeling or mapping. This enables organizations to track and monitor transactions upon installation. Because CoreFirst does this automatically, it also identifies and reacts to changes in the infrastructure in real-tim
- CA, IBM First to Demonstrate CMDB Federation, Interoperability – CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the ability to share information between their respective configuration management databases (CMDBs) and management data repositories (MDRs), such as asset management systems and service desk solutions. The interoperability demonstration, based on the CMDB Federation (CMDBf) specification and debuting this week at itSMF Fusion ’08 in San Francisco, gives customers a way to better consolidate IT data in a multi-vendor environment by linking CA and IBM data sources for a single view of their IT systems and components, and the relationships among them.
- Netuitive Adds "Intelligence Layer" for IBM Tivoli – Netuitive, the leading provider of self-learning performance management software, announced today an advanced integration with IBM Tivoli Management. With this solution, customers can automatically correlate IBM Tivoli performance data with monitoring data from third-party tools such as BMC Patrol, Microsoft Operations Manager, NetIQ, VMware, HP Openview Operations and Sitescope.
- Managed Objects Advances Web 2.0 Strategy – Managed Objects, the Business Service Management (BSM) Company, today announced the release of Web 2.0 Connect, a new tool that provides developers of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) access to data within Managed Objects’ products for applications they build. Developers can use this platform-independent API to access the Managed Objects’ data model and analytics to bring information into their own applications, which can range from Web-hosted applications to clients for portable devices to standalone desktop programs.