Links that I have found interesting for January 29th:
- Nimsoft Reports Record Breaking Quarter to Close 2008 – Overall, 2008 saw new bookings increase by 47 percent, driven by 162 new name customers for the year. Total bookings for 2008 were in the $40m to $50m range. Fourth quarter results set new company records for bookings, new customer count, backlog and recurring revenue. Bookings increased by 28 percent in the fourth quarter compared with Q407 as the company added over 50 brand new logo customers. Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) increased by 46 percent from Q407 to a record high while combined deferred revenue and backlog smashed previous quarterly records — up 78 percent year-over-year.
- » IT Management 2.0: Blame virtualization | Feeds | ZDNet.com – ** Is EMC innovating here at all? **
Finally, we need a way to tie this all together – to have a common view or model of IT that maps both physical and virtual worlds together. If you’re not taking advantage of application dependency and discovery technologies that map across both P & V — you’re definitely managing the 2.0 data center with a 1.0 toolset. And with those discovery and dependency mapping tools, you’re on your way to a real CMDB (configuration management database) able to track virtual and physical configuration items (CI’s) and virtual dependencies, too. Tie that into your service desk and service catalog – now you’re talking IT Management 2.0!
- » IBM gets serious about cloud computing | The View from Forrester Research | ZDNet.com – It’s also music to the ears of the venture capitalists behind the many startups in the cloud computing space who gain time to build up their value as a potential accelerator for these large vendor’s efforts.
- Google Launches M-Lab Measurement Tools | NetworkWorld.com Community – Now you can get your own data and let your measurements be added to the common database in the cloud. The site called M-Lab hosts three cool test tools with more coming. It is also a repository of information and pointers to other performance measurement tools.
- Reservoir – Thus, Cloud Computing represents a true materialization of Service-Oriented Computing's visionary promise. In RESERVOIR, we are developing breakthrough system and service technologies that will serve as the infrastructure for Cloud Computing. We aim to achieve this goal by creative coupling of virtualization, grid computing, and business service management techniques.
- Enterprise Cloud Orchestration – Cordys – There will be not just one Cloud but a number of different sorts: private Clouds and public ones, which themselves will divide into general-purpose and specialized ones. The term “InterCloud” means a federation of all kinds of Clouds, in the same way that the internet is a network of networks. And all of those Clouds will be full of applications and services. How are you going to use these without some type of orchestration? Your organization needs an Assembly and Orchestration layer in the Cloud to fully deliver useful business advantages. Cordys delivers an Enterprise Cloud Orchestration platform that will allow you to quickly embrace new ways of running your business and reaching your customers.