These are my links for June 30th through July 6th:
- IT Reliability™ through Business Transaction Management – Business Transaction Management (BTM) has been getting a lot of attention lately as a powerful way to enable IT reliability by allowing organizations to collect and analyze the transactional data required to drive effective IT management processes and achieve IT reliability.
Managing IT by the traditional siloed approach is no longer enough to enable IT reliability. A horizontal foundation that connects between the end-users, network, proxy servers, web servers, load balancers, application servers, message brokers, databases and mainframes is needed in order to provide IT reliability. As the common denominator of all of these silos, transactions are able to provide the foundation for IT reliability.
SharePath's unique patent pending technology is able to automatically discover and correlate all of the transactions that flow through these numerous IT silos and store them in a Reliability Management Database (RMDB) in real time.
- IT Reliaility – Correlsense’s new spin on BTM – So what is IT Reliability? On principal, it is allowing IT staff to take control of their multi-tiered, distributed applications.
The sole purpose of an IT organization is to make sure business transactions are processed as fast and as accurate as possible. For that they need to know what is going on right now, and be able to compare it to what happened last month. The need to be able to figure out who is misusing or corrupting the data, plan ahead in terms of physical resources and virtual resources (cloud), maintain a clear picture of dependencies between physical and logical components, make sure changes to applications and infrastructure don't create any unexpected results, and make the business departments pay for what they are using in practice rather than in theory.
- CA Expands Offerings for Unified Business Service Assurance and Automation for Next-Generation Virtualized Data Centers and Private Clouds – CA is broadening the scope of CA Spectrum(R) Infrastructure Manager, CA eHealth(R) Performance Manager and CA Spectrum Automation Manager to encompass in one fully-integrated, end-to-end management solution both physical and virtual server and network environments, as well as databases, voice and unified communications systems, and other networked applications. The products are being enhanced to support VMware vSphere 4 and the Cisco Nexus(R) 1000V distributed virtual software switch, which is an integrated option in VMware vSphere 4. The extensive solution will help enable customers to easily and coherently manage these environments through one user interface and within a powerful unified information model. This will help customers achieve Lean IT by speeding time to problem identification and resolution.
- Questions you should ask ANY IT Service Management Vendor « John Clark’s $.02 (or 1.25p) –
- Awe and Disbelief « OpTier’s Business Transaction Management Blog – Despite being one of the privileged few who witnessed BTM grow from a mere idea into a full-blown enterprise solution, I still find myself sometimes awed by this technology. It is, after all, an ambitious attempt to visualize complex, abstract business ideas, and manage them like any other assets of the organization. How is it possible? Does it really work? As my friend and colleague Andy previously noted, the “aha moment” for BTM typically doesn’t arrive until after the customer has already seen it live in their own environment. And that’s when the fun begins.