These are my links for July 17th through July 20th:
- AccelOps: All-In-One Datacenter and IT Service Management – Virtual Appliance or Software-as-a-Service – Business Service Management (BSM) provides the means for managing, monitoring and measuring information technology (IT) from a business contribution perspective.
AccelOps offers a superior, automated and scalable BSM solution that allows any organization to quickly and easily:
IT Service Management, Visibility
* define a service and apply service level requirements
* associate supporting delivery infrastructure
* monitor key performance indicators and other service controls
* respond to service incidents and plan for service enhancement
* track service level delivery metrics and record business impact
* identify consolidation, migration and license reduction opportunities, and
* achieve continuous improvement - BriefingsDirect Transcripts: Rethinking Virtualization: Why Enterprises Need a Sustainable Virtualization Strategy Over Hodge-Podge Approaches – We offer a host of solutions that help companies manage virtualized environments end to end, but as we look at monitoring — and essentially a configuration database attracts all of the core interdependencies of infrastructure and their configuration settings over time — we talk about the business service management portfolio of HP Software. This includes the Discovery and Dependency Mapping product that I talked about earlier. UCMDB is a central repository, and a number of tools allow our customers to monitor their infrastructure at the server level, at the network level, but also at the service level, to ensure ongoing health and performance of their environment.
- Novell® SalesTalk™ » BSM 4.6 – Erin talks to Dustin McNabb about the new 4.6 release of BSM.
This release includes a new PlateSpin RECON adapter, support for SLES 11 and updated support for Tideway and Tivoi.
- Operational BI: Getting Real Time About Performance White Paper – the term "operational BI" has been identified with several terms within various industry and market terminology, including "transactional BI, real-time analytics, near-real-time analytics, operational reporting, business activity monitoring and decision management."
- Serge Thorn’s IT Blog: IT Architecture is not Enterprise Architecture – One of the main differences between Enterprise Architecture and IT Architecture is the Business Architecture.