Links that I have found interesting for August 20th:

• RapidInsight for Netcool – IBM Tivoli/Netcool Omnibus is an event management solution widely used by service providers and large enterprises. RapidInsight integrates with Netcool Omnibus and makes events from Netcool Omnibus server available through standard interfaces.

  RapidInsight for Netcool provides an innovative web based interface to work with Netcool events:

  * an active (read/write) interface (AJAX) without no activeX or java applets
  * the interface is designed to work with high volume of events with ease
  * easy to use google search like interface that enables users to create and save queries to filter events by point and click, without requiring programming knowledge.
  * data from the server side is exposed over web api (XML/JSON), enabling development of alternative/additional user interfaces easily.
  * same interface is used to access historical events as well as active events

• Complex Event Processing, Event Stream Processing, from Aleri CEP – Aleri offers these products to address specific needs in financial markets, further showcasing the power of Aleri Complex Event Processing (CEP).
• Complex event processing (CEP) engine & Algorithmic trading platform – Progress Apama – Proven in the most demanding of markets, Apama offers the broadest, deepest and most flexible platform for building event-driven applications. Apama allows both business users and IT to exploit the power of complex event processing.
• Event Zero – Event Zero produces an industry leading event processing technology which enables our customers to exploit the power of event processing to acquire real-time Operational Intelligence (OI) across the enterprise, to better understand and rapidly respond to events impacting their business. Our highly scalable Enterprise-Class Event Processing Network (EPN) is a fully integrated framework that captures, processes, and responds to diverse types of events and our unique EPN ” last mile” support provides the ability to rapidly integrate data from many heterogeneous event sources, distributed in multiple geographic locations, and across a large number of endpoints.
• Xceedium Appoints Klaus Sonnenleiter as Vice President of Engineering – Xceedium, a premier provider of entitlement management solutions that control high-risk users, today announced that Klaus Sonnenleiter has been named vice president of engineering. In this role, Klaus will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of product development and quality assurance.
• ITRS Group – Effective real-time management of systems and applications is more important than ever in today's fast moving financial markets. The growth in electronic trading, increasing reliance on electronic straight through processing, regulatory focus on best execution have all added to the complexity, and therefore the cost, of conducting your business. Risks associated with Hardware, Application or Network problems can impact both profit and just as importantly company’s reputation. At ITRS, we understand that real-time means just that. Not one, five or ten minutes after the event. With ITRS Geneos, you get a comprehensive, up-to-the-second view of all your mission critical systems, applications and processes, and instant notification of issues before they turn into business problems. All consolidated into a single desktop view.

Links that I have found interesting for August 19th:

• ZenPack – Powerware UPS – Commercial Open Source Network, Systems and Application Monitoring – Zenoss – This ZenPack provides voltages stats, load, ambient temperature, battery capacity and more for Powerware UPS products. UPS status is found through the the SNMP oids.
• Converting TDW Timestamps to DateTime in BIRT – We have previously published articles on how to convert TDW timestamps to "regular" timestamps in DB2. In BIRT, you may need to tackle the same problem again. The TDW timestamps can not be used for DateTime arithmetic and Charting functions in BIRT and has to be converted to regular DateTime. Though you can use the SQL to convert these timestamps to regular, in some cases, you may want to use the JavaScript integration of BIRT to convert them as well. Here is how to do it.

  ** Important for creating custom TCR Reports based on TDW data!! **

• Firm snubs IBM, HP, CA and BMC, picks Nimsoft for network monitoring – "We don't feel like we've been put into some box," he said. "We feel like they're highly interested in us and believe they will be there to work with us. I think that's important for companies that are small- to medium-sized and growing." "To get bigger, we need a software provider that's willing to roll up their shirtsleeves and work with us."

  Callaghan said Melillo's perspective is on target. Smaller providers will tend to be more responsive to new requests for functionality to be added. Meanwhile, with a behemoth like IBM or HP, a smaller company like Diversified could make a recommendation, but until several companies ask for the same thing, it's doubtful the change will be implemented.

  Another benefit of Nimsoft is the agility that comes with being small. "No pun intended," Callaghan said, "but Nimsoft can be a little more nimble in embracing new technologies. With IBM, HP and BMC, it can take a little bit longer to get it out of the labs. There's more bureaucracy to deal with."

• Data Synapse Utility and Cloud Computing Monitoring – Trying to get your infrastructure working effectively within a Cloud Computing model can be a difficult task. All the new tools and people required to administer this innovation can cause serious cost-inefficiency and unnecessary complexity, cancelling out the benefits of shifting services to least cost infrastructure in your network cloud.

  The DataSynapse Dynamic Application Service Management (DASM) platform standardizes the management of enterprise cloud services across your cloud, ensuring that mission-critical business applications are uniformly provisioned, activated and scaled onto least cost infrastructure. The platform delivers:

  * Effective management of service delivery across your network cloud
  * Cost reductions through services sourced from least cost providers
  * Guaranteed service performance and scalability

  If you want to deliver on the promise of Cloud Computing, think DataSynapse.

• BMC's own CMDB figures – The IT Skeptic | The IT Skeptic – A podcast of the original post a back-of-an-envelope re-analysis of Forrester and BMC's own CMDB research

  Several readers argue well that ROI is not the right measure for a CMDB, but nevertheless management want to know what they get for their money, and BMC's own research suggests "not much".

  ** A must listen – just to hear Rob's voice and style if anything! **

• Tivoli Service Request Manager Integration with Netcool/OMNIbus – OMNIbus is a central event management console for enterprises. TSRM is a service request platform. To better leverage TSRM functions like incident management, service request management, they can be integrated together. Incidents or service requests can be automatically created based on TSRM and OMNIbus integration package, and events in OMNIbus can be closed automatically by synchronizing with TSRM.