Links that I have found interesting for February 25th:
- developerWorks spaces: cloud, cloud computing, saas, software as a service – snazzy developerworks site for all things cloud
- BSM Evolution Paths: Auto Industry Sample – Making Business Service Management a Reality – The VPITops needed a quick win. He believed that visually demonstrating and reporting performance and availability from a business service perspective -versus an infrastructure perspective- would be a catalyst for driving “aligned” IT behavior. The current network and infrastructure products didn’t have this capability, so VPITops leveraged the tools already proven by the application test and level 3 support team.
VPITops established a new team within Operations (parallel to infrastructure event management) to own and run the end-to-end business service visibility/accountability solution. Integration was established between the two teams and tools.
- Is Your Monitoring Solution “Virtualization 2.0 Ready”? Here’s How To Find Out – What to Look for in a Virtualization 2.0 Ready Monitoring Solution
A Virtualization 2.0 Ready management solution must offer superior automation and root-cause diagnosis to enable administrators with limited expertise to be effective in spotting problems and taking the proper corrective action quickly. The following is what a Virtualization 2.0 Ready monitoring and management solution should be able to do.
- FireScope BSM – Slashing IT Costs and Saving Your Sanity – If you haven't experienced FireScope Workbench 3.0, then you haven't experienced the best integrated collection of diagnostic and modeling tools available for IT Professionals today. Twice the feature set, a completely redesigned interface are just a few of the features of this latest release. Download now and dare to compare Workbench against it's over-priced competition.