Links that I have found interesting for January 5th:
- Data Center Monitoring and IT Service Management Provider AccelOps Opens Office in China – "Even now, the sheer size of China and the number of people using Internet and telecom services creates gigantic data centers," she said. "Since there is no IT infrastructure legacy in China, these data centers make extensive use of cloud computing and are also leading edge. They need a fully integrated, next-generation data center and IT service management solution like AccelOps."
- You can only see what you can see. « Business Transaction Management Blog – several vendors mean when they claim “End to End” coverage of monitoring business transactions. Firstly, they’ll simplify things by saying “URL to SQL”, they’ll then tell you they can provide this visibility by just sticking an agent on each of your J2EE and .NET application servers. With just two tier agents you’ll magically get your “End to End” latency breakdown and all the visibility you need to solve all of your problems and a whole lot more. In fact I know a few vendors who will instrument your coffee machine if you ask them nicely (go the extra mile and all that).
- IBM Offers Hosted Tivoli Monitoring for the Midmarket – IBM officials have admitted that their Tivoli Express products for the midmarket "haven't done as well as they could have," and the on-demand model provides IBM with another way to reach smaller businesses, RedMonk analyst Michael Coté wrote in a blog post about the new service.
"The challenge for Tivoli (and IBM in general) is always moving down-market and understanding how to get their fingers deep enough in that pie," he wrote. He commended IBM for being open about its pricing.
Several smaller companies already offer hosted monitoring services, such as Accelops, InteQ and ManageEngine, which is part of Zoho. Larger vendors, including Microsoft and BMC Software, are also developing services or have them already, Coté said.
The IBM products behind the services are Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.1, Tivoli Monitoring for Microsoft Applications 6.2, and Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Applications 6.2.
- Incident Management Software — Isolate Root-Causality of Application Errors – Prelert is the first in a new generation of incident management tools that automatically isolate the causality of application interruptions in real-time without needing any manual configuration, maintenance intervention or topology model.