Interesting Links for June 15th

Links that I have found interesting for June 15th:

• OpTier and IBM Collaboration on BTM – With comprehensive technical help from IBM Innovation Center teams, OpTier was able to prove their application could scale, gain performance improvements, and help make it possible to expand to new markets.
• Straight Talk about the CMDB Imperative: Carlos Casanova, author and former MetLife IT Executive – In this podcast, www.enterpriseleadership.org asks Casanova to describe some of the key tasks associated with CMDB/CMS; the effect technologies, such as virtualization, service-oriented architecture, and cloud computing are having on the CMDB/CMS; and the various approaches CIOs can use in selling CMDB/CMS within their organization.
• ADM defined, CMDB confusion – JP Garbani, Forrester Research and Richard Muirhead offer thier explanation of application dependency mapping and how it relates to "CMDB". … application dependency mapping cmdb configuration management
• Does SAP’s Performance Fall Short? – "We heard customers anecdotally complain about performance problems and thought what better place to survey them than at an SAP user conference," he added.

  Sixty-two percent of survey respondents said they were unhappy with the way performance issues were resolved. Eight percent reported daily problems, and 68 percent reported 1-5 incidents each month.

  Thirty-nine percent of those who reported at least one incident per month said they have unresolved performance issues with SAP.

  Forty-six percent said they resolved issues in hours, 22 percent solved them in minutes, and 30 percent took days or even weeks to solve problems. The remaining 2 percent solved problems in seconds, according to the survey.