Interesting Links for January 7th

Links that I have found interesting for January 7th:

• Four Key Trends in the Network Monitoring Market – Network performance monitoring solutions are not one of those “cool” technologies that get a lot of coverage in the media and these products are sometimes perceived as using an old approach to solve new problems. It’s all about capturing and analyzing packet flow data, right? Well, not really. Not many people realize how much this market has changed over the last 3-4 years.

  It is About Applications on the Network, Not the Network Itself

  Between these two rounds of interviews, metrics, such as application response times and application availability, became the top indicators of the health of enterprise networks. These changes in end-user needs had a major impact on network monitoring vendors.

• TM Forum – Business Agreements – TMF506, Service Quality Management Business Agreement, V1.5 – This document defines the requirements for the exchange of management information and the assurance of service quality with a model of FAB functions as documented in TM Forum’s Telecom Operations Map. Specifically, this document will focus in the area of Assurance with regards to performance management of IMT-2000 services (hereafter referred to as ‘services;).

  Whilst this document is focused on third generation mobile services many of the concepts are equally applicable to other telecommunication services. The purpose of this document is to address the Service Quality Management functionality of the Telecom Operations Map.

• Zyrion Enables Unified Monitoring of Diverse and Complex IT Infrastructure Across Distributed Datacenter Footprint – Datacenter Edition of its flagship Traverse network management platform. Traverse Datacenter enables monitoring a complex mix of business services, IT infrastructure and applications based on next-generation technologies, such as Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Grid Architectures. Traverse Datacenter also now monitors a variety of power and environmental equipment and infrastructure, such as, HVAC, UPS and Generators. The new monitoring capabilities expand on Traverse’s proven support for vendor and custom applications, servers, network devices and storage.

  Overcomes the limitations of traditional IT monitoring systems that focus on measuring just the technical metrics and trends of individual IT components. Traverse Datacenter’s integrated network monitoring and BSM capabilities allows datacenter operations teams to rapidly identify the affected business processes or services when problems occur in the complex, inter-related, distributed and virtual IT infrastructure

• IBM – TBSM 4.2.1 adds support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 operating system. – TBSM 4.2.1 adds support for the following SLES 11 on System z, SLES 11 on x86-32 systems and SLES 11 on x86-64 sys