Links that I have found interesting for December 15th:
- BSM 2.0 by Jean-Pierre Garbani – Forrester Research – BSM Will Become Irrelevant Without A 2.0 Evolution
- It's 2018: Who Owns the Cloud? – Today, cloud computing offerings are application-specific frameworks that are run by companies both large and small. Google's (GOOG) App Engine is a cloud for running Python applications; EngineYard is a cloud for Ruby-on-Rails; Amazon's (AMZN) EC2 and S3 provide generic compute and storage clouds, and so forth. While each of these companies addresses a vertical market need, I believe that by 2018, clouds will instead be evaluated based on three generic criteria: transactions, user experience, and presence. And as with any active market, it's a safe bet there will be plenty of companies that best showcase each of them.
- Business Transaction Management: Business Transaction Management’s Challenges – Business Transaction Management (BTM) is a natural continuation of the past decade and a half's evolution of IT systems management. In the past few years the modern data center has finally started to stabilize; the number of node types has become constant and each node has had tools developed for it.
These silo specific tools are now able to solve 90% of the problems; leaving us with the hardest to solve – last ten percent. This last ten percent is characterized, for example, by those application bottlenecks that occur even though all of the silo specific tools are showing 100% availability.
If the monitoring tools at all tiers are showing 100% availability then how does one know that there is a problem? Well, either the enterprise has put in place an end user measurement tool or the help desk is receiving user complaints.
The IT organization's number one priority is very simple; ensure that all transactions are executing correctly and in a timely manner – it's that simple.