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Interesting Links for October 8th

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Links that I have found interesting for October 8th:

  • Harris: Nimsoft is growing fast and bullish on its future – San Jose Mercury News – Gary Read, chief executive of Redwood City-based Nimsoft, professes to have the inside story: "It's because Goldman Sachs completed their investment in us that Warren decided to invest in them."
  • myDIALS Named Top 10 Company to Watch in 2009 by Managing Automation – myDIALS, which is pioneering a new standard in operational performance management, today announced that the company has been recognized as one of Managing Automation's "Companies to Watch in 2009." In the October 2008 issue, Managing Automation, a leading publication that focuses on technology solutions for progressive manufacturers, recognizes 10 technology companies that have demonstrated forward-thinking solutions to address manufacturers' pain points.
  • ITIL Process WIKI – Wiki for generic IT Service Management Process descriptions based on Ideas of ITIL V2 , ITIL V3, ISO 20000 and experience.

    The Process descriptions are published under Creative Commons Licenses Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported.

  • Nimsoft Blogs » Woo Hoo – we're excited!!!!! – An InformationWeek product review ranked Nimsoft the “Best of the Best” among nine application performance management (APM) solutions. APM is a critical segment of systems management because it monitors the performance of the customer experience – in addition to core IT infrastructure performance. InformationWeek reviewers noted Nimsoft was “a real leader” in service level management for its “flexible and robust SLA reporting engine” and ability to “report SLA performance granularly … which many APM tools are unable to do.”
  • How to Succeed at Capacity Planning Without Really Trying : An Interview with Flickr's John Allspaw on His New Book | High Scalability – When I read statements about The Art of Capacity Planning like capacity planning is a term that to me means paying attention, All the information you need to make an educated forecast is in your historical metrics, and startups that are going to experience massive growth simply don't have time for anything but a 'steering by your wake' approach, I get the same sea change feeling I felt when the industry ran from waterfall design and embraced agile design. Current capacity planning is heavy. All up-front. Too analytical and too divorced from real life.

    Other capacity planning books assault you with models, math, and simulations. Who has the time? John has developed a common sense, low math approach to capacity planning that works using the system you already have. John's goal is to have you say: Oh, right, duh. That's common sense, not voodoo.

    Here's my email interview with John Allspaw on The Art of Capacity Planning. Enjoy.

  • Goldman Sachs leads $12 million investment in Nimsoft – Goldman Sachs isn't letting the current economic meltdown hinder its investment in systems management software maker Nimsoft. The financial services firm is among three contributors to pony up funds for Nimsoft’s $12 million second round of funding.

    "Despite the tough economic times, we were overwhelmed with interest from multiple prestigious investors," said Gary Read, president and CEO of Nimsoft, in a statement. "An investment from Goldman Sachs is further recognition of the strength of our business model, product performance and future business opportunity."

    *** Congrats Gary – you still owe me discussion on your BSM strategy! šŸ™‚ ***

  • Zenoss Adds Network Management and Systems Management Veterans to Leadership Team From Sun Microsystems, IBM, BMC, CA, and Novell – MarketWatch – Zenoss, Inc., a leading provider of commercial open source application systems, and network management software, today announced the expansion of its executive team to add five seasoned professionals in systems management and enterprise software. These additions will help to continue the exponential customer growth and demand for Zenoss' enterprise-grade open source systems management solutions.