Interesting Links for October 20th

Links that I have found interesting for October 20th:

• Nimsoft Provides Visibility into the Cloud – Nimsoftis launching a benchmarking service today for enterprise customers that will help them define and measure the actual costs of cloud computing and monitor the performance of IT infrastructure.

  The benchmarking service monitors the multiple systems of an enterprise and pulls them into a unified view. These include internal systems, managed service providers, cloud-based and Software-as-a-Service investments.

  The service offers visibility where to distribute workloads, identify problems in the infrastructure and look at performance metrics.

• Nimsoft takes another step forward in cloud monitoring – The initial release will cover the Amazon cloud and Rackspace, but Read said the company is taking measurements on Salesforce.com and has plans to expand to Microsoft and Google cloud offerings.

  Read insisted this is not like those “cloud weather reports” we wrote about last year.

  “You haven’t been able to monitor a single customer’s usage, and you haven’t been able to pull all the different threads, and combine that with an internal environment, into a single integrated view of the service delivery.

  That’s the big play. It’s not about one provider. It’s about pulling all the threads together, because everything then becomes part of the same fabric of service delivery.”

• IBM Announces New Software for Managing Data Centers – The introduction of IBM's new VMControl product for enterprises, combined with IBM Tivoli software, gives businesses for the first time a single point of control across multiple types of IT systems and virtualization technologies. It spans UNIX/Linux, mainframe, x86 and storage systems and networks.

  VMControl helps companies that have turned to virtualization – the creation of multiple virtual servers or storage on a single physical system – to reduce infrastructure costs, but have encountered new struggles as they try to manage enterprises made up of disparate platforms, each with their own virtualization technology.

• New Relic Sets the Standard for IT Management Tools with Next-Generation On-Demand Solution RPM Version 2 – New Relic, Inc., the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management solutions, today announced the general availability of New Relic RPM Version 2, the next generation of its leading application performance management product. Used by IT operations and development teams around the world to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize web applications, RPM Version 2 offers the first cross-platform performance management solution and includes significant enhancements such as scenario-based workflows, long-term SLA reporting, intuitive interface, and support for Java applications.
• Oblicore Guarantee Positioned as a Market Leader in OVUM Butler Group Technology Audit – Oblicore Guarantee has received a positive Technology Audit from OVUM Butler Group. The Technology Audit is OVUM Butler Group's industry-leading technology evaluation report that delivers OVUM Butler Group's thought leadership, opinion, and best practice through in-depth technical analysis.

  Further, OVUM Butler Group identified Oblicore as one of the leaders in this marketspace and noted five key product strengths for Oblicore Guarantee:
  • Impressive pre-defined content supports and simplifies the formulation of contracts and SLAs.
  • Correlates the financial implications of performance against SLAs, such as service costs, and penalties and rewards.
  • Provides good reporting capabilities, including forecasting and alerts.
  • Provides out-of-the-box adapters to common business applications and infrastructure management solutions.
  • Graphically represents service dependency on infrastructure elements and other service interdependencies.

• Correlsense SharePath Adds Enhanced Application Domain Support as Part of Its Fall 2009 Release – as part of its SharePath Fall 2009 release it has added Application Domain Support. With this new capability, application owners, application performance and IT operations managers can analyze how application transactions perform across the different components of the data center. It will also provide information for how each application's transactions can be fine-tuned, in order to optimize performance and reduce costs.