Links that I have found interesting for December 18th:
- BMC tools will be key to Cisco's 'California' blade server – Network World – BMC is so strategic to California, and California so strategic to Cisco that Cisco may look to acquire all or parts of the systems-management company, sources say.
"If they could bolster their data center story by acquiring BMC, they would," said one source. "It's always on the radar."
- EMA QoE Webinar Replay with Dennis Drogseth – ** TOO MUCH STUDY/CHART FOCUS AND NOT ENOUGH MARKET FOCUS **
Understanding Quality of Experience (QoE) helps IT and business planners better assess how effectively IT services – from Web applications and client/server ERP applications to VoIP and rich media – are being utilized by their service consumers.
Join Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Vice President Dennis Drogseth for a discussion on this topic and to hear highlights from the latest EMA QoE research report. During this one-hour Webinar, Dennis will provide insights into how businesses and IT professionals can:
*Leverage QoE-related technologies
*Establish better processes for working together
*Prioritize technology and organizational priorities, as well as processes
*Common roadblocks and recommendations to overcome them - Will IBM Add Analytics to its Toolbelt? – The gist of Ambuj Goyal's message in this Q&A interview is that predictive and statistical modeling — key offerings for the likes of SAS and SPSS — are overrated. IBM has what Goyal describes as better, cheaper alternatives in a mix of techniques developed for industry- and domain-specific challenges.
- Correlsense — IDC – Document at a Glance – This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Correlsense, a company playing in the BTM market, and reviews key success factors: market potential, technology/solution, corporate strategy, force multipliers, and customers. Leveraging IDC's expert understanding of the competitive landscape and future outlook, this document highlights company and market information tailored to the investment professional's needs.
- Aternity Reports 2008 Milestones, Signals Industry-Wide Embrace Of Next-Generation Application Performance Management – 'We are extremely gratified that our Frontline Performance Intelligence platform continues to be embraced by industry-leading organizations world-wide,' said Trevor Matz, President and CEO of Aternity. 'Our exponential growth in 2008 is a testament to the rapid ROI our user-centric, proactive IT management platform delivers, by enabling customer to optimize their business processes, increase productivity and dramatically reduce business disruptions. Server-based computing, desktop virtualization, and thin-client computing initiatives have also been significant catalysts for our business growth in 2008, and we believe this growing trend will continue throughout 2009 and beyond.'