Interesting Links for January 7th

Links that I have found interesting for January 7th:

• Network Frontiers, LLC – The focus of this site is to fully support the Unified Compliance Framework in every form and fashion. Together with our legal partners and Latham & Watkins LLP, the Network Frontiers team originated, designed, and built the Unified Compliance Framework (UCF). This site is dedicated to education and support of the framework.

  The UCF has a somewhat complex lifecycle that follows eight stages of development as shown in the diagram that follows. These stages of development are documented on this site, as well as the schema for the UCF and other pertinent documentation.

• Orb Data – How do I set the default TBSM View Definition? – Setting the Default TBSM View Definition

  To set the default view definition for the a service complete the following steps:

  1. Open the Edit Templates tab for template that the service belongs to
  2. Click the Additional tab.
  3. Click the New Parameter button.
  4. In the Parameter field type ViewDefName
  5. In the Default Value field type the View name you want (e.g. Concentric).
  6. Save the template
  7. Now edit the specific service and click on the Additional Tab again.
  8. This should now have the parameter ViewDefName created.
  9. If the default value is incorrect change it and press save.

  Now whenever you click on the service it will use the view definition defined.

• Cliff Meltzer Joins CA to Lead New Service Assurance Business Unit – Cliff Meltzer joined the company as corporate senior vice president and general manager of the Service Assurance business unit, which includes the company's application performance, infrastructure fault and performance, and database performance management product lines
• Study of Netuitive Customers Yields Startling Results – Netuitive, Inc. announced today the results of a third-party study by Enterprise Management Associates, which researched Netuitive's operational impact on a series of large corporations. Based on in-depth customer interviews, EMA concluded that Netuitive software:

  — Delivers up to a 700% return on investment over 3-years
  — Automates up to 70% of IT monitoring administration tasks
  — Increases alarm accuracy 5 to 10 times, which reduces Mean Time To
  Resolution (MTTR)
  — Conclusively was able to forecast service degradations

  The study included interviews with managers from one of the largest telecoms in the United States, a Fortune 500 insurance company and one of the world's largest banks.

• Connecting the computer dots – Connecting the dots is lots of fun. But what if someone brought you a picture that was already "dotted" and asked you to "disconnect" them – to figure out what dot got connected to which other dot in what order?

  Huh? Why in the world would anyone want to do that?

  Disconnecting dots in a picture surely is not something we'd bother wasting time on (unless a reward was being offered). But being able to successfully disconnect computer "transactions" – actions that takes place in on a hard drive, over a network, or across the Internet – is sometimes an activity upon which thousands of people depend for the resolution of a thorny computer problem, or on which the fate of millions of dollars sometimes rests. And that process, as it happens, has a lot in common with dot-disconnecting!