Interesting Links for January 15th

Links that I have found interesting for January 15th:

• Oh, Now it’s legacy IT that’s dead. Huh? « Adventures in systems land – transaction networks, transaction volume, transactions in legacy networks
• Is SOA dead? « Adventures in systems land – transactions transaction transactions

  Business Transaction Management (BTM) http://dougmcclure.net/blog/business-transaction-management/

• Best Practices Integration Of IBM Tivoli Monitoring & Tivoli Business Services Manager For Databases – A Dashboard for DBA's – This package provides a set of rec's and a sample implementation of a set of the out of the box best practices integration of ITM and TBSM targeting DB Applications and DBA.

  The integration contained in this pacakge and described in the associated white paper allow customers to bring database availability and performance information (events, KPIs, etc) from ITM for DB (DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server) into TBSM dashboard in an optimal way for DBA and DB SMEs.

  This integration creates out of the box service trees with selected KPIs, pre-defined DB topology, customer canvas and events views. Best practices dashboards for DBA and for DB experts are created using these views.

  This integration consists of the Best Practices paper with steps required to deliver the integration and the package with configuration/scripts/etc associated to the best practices. The paper is located on the Tivoli Wiki Central. The scripts and configuration files are contained here.

• IBM Tivoli OMNIbus and Network Manager v8.1 – IBM® Tivoli® OMNIbus and Network Manager V8.1 delivers consolidated Event and Network management, as a single offering. This provides Fault, Performance and Network Management delivered in an integrated offering.