These are my links for November 5th through November 6th:
- CCMDB Deployer's Workbench Eclipse Plugins – Deployer's Workbench is a set of plug-ins for use within an Eclipse environment. These plug-ins provide a pluggable foundation for additional tooling for IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database (CCMDB) to be delivered in the future. The CI space design tooling ships as a set of plug-ins for Deployer's Workbench for use within Eclipse.
- Netcool/Impact – TSRM Integration – IBM Tivoli Service Request Manager's (SRM) Netcool Impact integration enables automatic ticket generation of OMNIBus events through Netcool Impact.
Easily extensible through the Impact Policy Editor and Tivoli Directory Integrator, this solution provides customers with the ability to map event information into SRM tickets such as incidents and service requests, and have those events updates as ticket priority and statuses change.
- Correlsense Blog – Business Transaction Management – Business Transaction Management – an up and coming paradigm in Systems and Application Performance Management. This Blog seeks to help define and track the evolution of this groundbreaking discipline.
- CA BSM Survey in Canada – According to the 2008 CA Canada Business Service Management (BSM) Survey, both business and technology managers agree that the top IT priorities for the organization during the next 12 months are aligning IT with business priorities; controlling IT costs and improving service to end users.
- Virtualization 2.0 Is All About Manageability – Requirements for "Virtualization 2.0 Ready" Monitoring Solutions
The emphasis on monitoring and management in Virtualization 2.0 is shifting from virtual machine (VM) management to business service management; i.e., knowing how a business service is performing and which domains (network, server, VM, applications) are working properly and which are not. Hence, it's no longer sufficient to just monitor the uptime or resource usage levels of virtual machines and physical servers and believe that the entire IT infrastructure is working well. - Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) – Cordys, leader in next generation BPM – Monitoring your business activities for increased process visibility and control
Business Activity Monitoring is a key component of the Cordys Business Operations Platform, a leading product for next generation BPM. High performing business processes are crucial for the success of a business. Only with tight control and real-time monitoring of every crucial business activity and all processes, are companies able to act fast on business opportunities, respond quickly to process or activity inefficiencies, ensure that business processes run smoothly, and guarantee that critical business services are available.
- Boycott Novell » Going Out of Business Together with Novell – Novell will acquire Managed Objects pretty soon, but the prospects of this move are strongly being doubted. A few days ago we gave one example (down at the bottom) and the following new article warns that businesses which bet on Novell for BSM could suffer the same fate as Novell (diminishing business).