by delicious
on January 14, 2009
Links that I have found interesting for January 13th:
- Quest Software Acquires MonoSphere Technology – Quest Software, Inc. has acquired the technology assets of MonoSphere Inc., a privately owned company headquartered in Redwood City, CA. MonoSphere is the creator of Storage Horizon storage capacity management software.
- Discovery Library Adaptor Development Tool – The Discovery Library Adapter Development Tool, DLADT, is used to create custom TDI based Discovery Library Adapters. DLADT reduces adapter delivery time and it helps in the development of custom discovery library adapters by:
* Providing a development environment that integrates TDI functionality and TADDM DLA development
* Reducing errors caused by manual editing of files
* Providing automated validation to identify common errors
* Providing templates of discovery library adapter customizations
* Allowing export and import of TDI based discovery library adapters
- op5 – Open Source Monitoring, log management, data analysis tools based on open source – op5 – op5 provide easy to use comprehensive Open Source IT monitoring for professional network monitoring and management. Monitor all your network components, services, temperature and more in one synoptic tactical overview. We deliver the benefits of Open Source with the comfort of professional support and responsibility.
- ClearSight Networks Introduces Cronos for Advanced Performance Management of Financial Networks | SYS-CON AUSTRALIA – With high precision, ClearSight Cronos monitors and correlates messages from collecting agents, calculating the latency for corresponding packets containing financial data from one endpoint to another. Focused on measuring latency, detecting message loss and managing the periods of time – usually less than a second – when major bursts of network usage occur, Cronos:
* Passively monitors and captures all network data over extended periods of time – days, weeks and even months – allowing for data analysis, data collection and forensics;
* Accurately and quickly visualizes and resolves network latency and message loss issues across all seven layers of the network; and
* Generates alarms and notifications to users and systems management packages when latency threshold levels are breached and/or when message loss is detected.
- Startup Launches Cloud Application Management Tool – PC World – Kaavo's IMOD (Infrastructure and Middleware on Demand) software provides "one-click" deployment of server systems to cloud services for running applications, a data backup scheduler, and AES-256-bit data encryption for moving data in and out of the cloud securely. The software also has a rule-based alert system for tracking an application's CPU, disk, bandwidth and memory usage.
"This is not just monitoring, this is the entire life cycle from the application perspective," said CEO Jamal Mazhar. IMOD is initially supported for use with Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), with support for other cloud services to follow.
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by delicious
on January 13, 2009
Links that I have found interesting for January 12th:
- ClearSight Rolls Out Latency Monitoring Tool – A new latency monitoring product ClearSight Networks introduced today measures latency (in other words, data transmission delays) at the packet layer, watching and reporting on the movement of data across networks in real time. "This is as close to real-time latency monitoring as you can get," says Steve Wong, vice president of marketing, ClearSight Networks.
- Relaunching HP Infrastructure Software Blog – HP Infrastructure Management Software – Welcome to the restart of the HP Infrastructure Software blog.
HP Infrastructure Software includes a wide variety of tools from element managers that provide granular control over every aspect of a server through enterprise managers that give business owners a way to manage business services.
The new bloggers include Dennis Corning, Jon Haworth, and Peter Spielvogel, all part of the Operations Center marketing team, within HP’s Business Service Management group.
We will address a variety of topics of interest for CIOs, IT Operations professionals, and the front-line personnel who keep corporate IT systems running. The goal is to discuss developments in this rapidly changing and increasing important area of IT.
- From IT to Business – let’s start with my definition of what IT-Business Alignment is: IT does what the business requires – not more, not less. That includes aspects like the ability to efficiently respond on new business requests, the ability to report on and enforce business controls (including all the GRC requirements), and the efficiency of IT itself in the sense of a streamlined, lean IT organization.
There are, from my view, two main steps to go:
1. Reorganize IT
2. Implement a consistent control layer between Business and IT
From my perspective, the lessons we’ve learned from outsourcing and outtasking are a good basis for IT reorganization. Strategy has to be in-house – that is the core part of the IT department. Other parts might be done inhouse as well, but organized in own “centers” with clearly defined SLAs. An IT organization which consists of a strategy/architecture department for guidelines, a GRC department which focuses on all relevant controls, and some decentralized IT knowledge
- IT organizations have to change – for economic reasons! – With other words: Siloed IT organizations aren’t acceptable from an economic perspective. The argument frequently is that business departments are the ones who have the budget for building or buying new applications – and they decide. But that works only because the overall costs of the non-integratable applications aren’t known.
In these days, no organization can afford that type of IT anymore.
The answer to this is obvious: Siloes have to be broken up. There have to be at least strong matrix organizations where strategists and architects provide mandatory guidelines for IT methodologies, infrastructures, and architectures.
- ARM Enabler for WebSphere Application Server – The ARM Enabler for WebSphere Application Server is a program to configure WebSphere Application Server to turn on its ARM instrumentation.
Users must have ITCAMfRTT 6.1, ITCAMfRT 6.2 or ITCAMfTT 7.1 products installed in their WebSphere Application Server environment. After turn on the ARM instrumentation for the WebSphere Application Server, it will use the ARM libraries provided by aforementioned ITCAM products to generate ARM calls for the web applications running within it. Then the performance metrics data of the web applications and transactions could be collected by ITCAM products and reported to Management Server or Tivoli Enterprise Management Server for analyzing.
by delicious
on January 12, 2009
Links that I have found interesting for January 12th:
- Best practice to instrument transactions with Transaction Tracking API (TTAPI) – Applications with high availability and good performance are very important to the enterprise business. However, the architecture of the application system is very complex nowadays; it may involve many components or servers in a production environment. So providing a high quality of the service and improving the service level across an enterprise is a challenge for any IT management team.
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions 7.1 Transaction Tracking (ITCAMfTT), is a tool that can help. ITCAMfTT offers an API called TTAPI, which is a key component of ITCAMfTT and it enables the on demand, end to end transaction tracking capability.
This paper will introduce a best practice for the TTAPI.
- Knoa End-User Experience and Performance Management Solutions Profiled in New EMA IT Management Solutions Center – In fact, 79 percent of the surveyed business and IT professionals reported that Quality of Experience – defined by EMA as the human experience of the user consuming IT services – is becoming more important to their organization.
