Interesting Links for November 27th

Links that I have found interesting for November 27th:

• John Resig – Deep Tracing of Internet Explorer – After reading a recent post by Steve Souders concerning a free tool called dynaTrace Ajax, I was intrigued. It claimed to provide full tracing analysis of Internet Explorer 6-8 (including JavaScript, rendering, and network traffic). Giving it a try I was very impressed. I tested against a few web sites but got the most interesting results running against the JavaScript-heavy Gmail in Internet Explorer 8.
• NASDAQ OMX to Provide Customers With Independent Latency Measurement Service by Correlix (Nasdaq:NDAQ) – The NASDAQ OMX Group (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today that it has selected Correlix Inc. to provide real-time latency insight to its customers. The service will allow NASDAQ OMX customers access to independent real-time latency measurement information for intraday and post-day analytics.

  NASDAQ OMX will initially provide latency measurements for The NASDAQ Stock Market. Through the Correlix RaceTeam(TM) service subscription, NASDAQ Stock Market trading customers will be able to monitor and analyze real-time latency information associated with their orders, executions and market data. Further plans include expanding the service to make latency information available for other NASDAQ OMX markets around the world.

• American Family Mutual Insurance Co. Selects Correlsense SharePath to Ensure Peak Performance and Availability of Its Online Insurance Quoting System – – Correlsense, a leading provider of IT Reliability(TM) solutions through business transaction management (BTM), today announced that American Family Mutual Insurance (http://www.amfam.com/default.asp) has selected the Correlsense SharePath solution to ensure peak performance and availability of the insurance company's online insurance quoting system.
• Connecting the computer dots | Business Features | Jerusalem Post – SharePath is so unique, Shacham says, that Correlsense has three patents on the technology. "It took us several years to build SharePath; we had to dig deep into the guts of computers and networks, both online and offline, to figure out a way to make these connections," he says. "And as a result, we are able to analyze 100 percent of the traffic in a computer or network, or on a Web site, and determine exactly what is causing certain behaviors."
• Morning Round-up – IBM Software Analyst Connect 2009 – What I’m looking for here is how IBM is going to motivate the world’s enterprises to spend money on all these new geegaws and technologies. We seem to be at another point in IT innovation where the features and functionality available are far ahead of what companies are asking for (or know to ask for). The stuff of cloud-nut daily frothing like advanced development and automation, for example, are too uncontrolled, unknown, and new at this point for companies to quantify the risks and benefits of use. Companies like IBM (and all its peers) along with the associated communities need to help IT (and their companies) transition to using these new technologies without slicing off too many toes in the process.
• Compuware Gomez Accelerates Diagnosis of Web Application Performance Issues Through New Solution – Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), today announced that Gomez, Compuware's Web performance division, released a new product, Gomez Active Data Center. It connects Gomez's "outside-in" end-user Web performance monitoring with "behind-the-firewall" infrastructure monitoring systems to provide an integrated view of application performance and IT service delivery across the Enterprise and the Internet. By aggregating Gomez Web application performance alerts with internal systems events, IT operations teams can more quickly identify internal systems causing business-impacting Web application performance issues.
• Network and Security Operations Convergence – What do you call the new converged NOC and SOC?

  It's called the Core Operations Center-not Network Operations or Security Operations.

  We are a heavy Microsoft shop and we are leveraging SharePoint to provide us Web-based access to a single portal from anywhere, anytime, like a traditional NOC. We use AccelOps' integrated monitoring, analytics and reporting, for both security and network operations. Also its business service instrumentation can complement the Core Operations Center.

• Original MARS Creators Set Out to Take Cisco Users Beyond CS-MARS – AccelOps' founders, who previously created Cisco's popular security monitoring appliance, offer a holistic monitoring approach that results in greater operational control, efficient incident response and compliance automation beyond that of current SIEMs (Security Information Event Management systems).
• Functional Parity In The IT Service Management Support Tool Market « Stephen Mann’s Non-Blog – Beyond the delivery of core ITIL-based capabilities, however, many vendors have their own unique selling point or points to differentiate them from the pack. This is usually their own particular slant on, or flavour of, ITSM innovation. For instance, IBM takes a business view extending asset management to all business assets and supporting business service management, Service-now.com offers value for money and convenience through what it terms ‘modern Software-as-a-Service’, FrontRange offers additional ITSM efficiencies through telephony integration, and both CA and HP offer the benefits of true service portfolio management capabilities through their Project and Portfolio Management solutions.