These are my links for May 21st through May 26th:
- Nimsoft Blogs » Appeared in The451 today….interesting independant analysis – Another option for Nimsoft would be to extend its service-level monitoring into business transaction management – tracking business transactions through layers of IT infrastructure and pinpointing the cause of service degradations, which Nimsoft already monitors for. DynaTrace software, whose strength is primarily in pre-deployment testing, could be a good fit for Nimsoft here. OpTier is another startup in this space, but is currently well-funded and growing, and is not seeking a buyer. Israeli company Correlsense, which hasn't made the big splash it intended to in this sector, is a better match. BlueStripe Software has some interesting technology in this area for heavily virtualized environments and some early customer traction, but will likely seek more growth on its own for the time being.
- When IT Events Affect Your Business at Mainframe Executive – Filtering and correlating both IT and business events for early problem detection can be achieved with new, sophisticated software capabilities. Automating the responses can mean you might not even be aware of potential problems until after corrective actions occur. Ultimately, this translates into meeting your Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and business commitments, keeping your business healthy.
- Compuware Establishes Leadership in Fast-growing End User… – "Based on our analysis, we estimate Compuware owns 30 percent of the End User Experience monitoring market," said Mark Hillman, Compuware's Vice President of Strategy and Product Line Management. "Compuware EUE monitoring provides IT leadership with a versatile solution for optimizing the end-to-end performance of the applications that matter most to the business. And with a high continued growth rate expected in this market, we believe that Compuware will continue leading the pack."
- Think you’re not ready for the cloud? BSM For Clouds – 'Pre-cloud' BSM was essentially trying to do the same thing – manage the outcome, or the effect, of the service rather than the underlying physical infrastructure. So in that sense, BSM has always been 'cloud ready'.