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Most concerning are availability SLAs that are either not tied directly to business services or incorrectly assume that server uptime equals application availability.
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IBM quietly announced earlier this month to consolidate its ITCAM line from several products down to three: ITCAM for Applications, ITCAM for Microsoft and ITCAM for SOA
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CorrelSense Ltd. has raised $3 million,
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Take a page out of the Pragmatic security playbook. Ignore it and manage upward to the CIO and other senior managers to ensure they understand that you are focusing on the stuff that is most relevant to the business.
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Integrien now provides support for virtual agent technologies from IBM, HP, Hyperic and nworks supporting for the following virtual environments:
• VMware
• Microsoft Virtual Server
• Citrix XenServer
• IBM AIX/IBM System P
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BMC Software reported today that it has added two names to its executive roster. Both individuals, the company said, were formerly C-level executives at BladeLogic, the data center automation software developer that BMC acquired in April.
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monitor IT and business activities on a single dashboard by converting ITCAM for SOA events for display and processing by WebSphere Business Monitor. Three sample scenarios illustrate how to define monitor models to configure WebSphere Business Monitor.
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This project will allow EMC ISV partners to develop, test and eventually submit their integrations with EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager for the Designed for EMC (DFE) accreditation.
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Lowering the barriers for EMC Smarts partners to experience standard EMC Smarts environment without the need to download, install and configure the product.
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This blog is where I’ll wax on about performance surround the WebSphere Application Server middle-tier integration environment.
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There has been an increasing demand from within Quest Software to host external blogging. As a result, we have installed WordPress MU on an externally hosted server earlier this month. Already, we have created three blogs in addition to this blog.
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Customers have told us their actually scared of what BSM may mean to the IT systems and processes that they’ve built up over the past 20 years. So we’re offering them a pragmatic approach to BSM
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We’ve broken down the performance roadmap into three categories:
1) Historical.
2) The Present.
3) The Future.
If you’re a Quest Software Foglight user, check out the Foglight community that’s recently launched. (where was my heads up Tyler and Greg? 🙂 )
Greg Crow has a post sharing some insight into Quest’s thoughts on the Business Service Management (BSM) space and Tyler Jewell shares some of Quest’s thoughts in the Performance Management space.
Congrats to Quest Software and the Foglight team for opening up some and sharing your thoughts and ideas with the community. To my knowledge, there are ZERO IBM Tivoli, HP, CA, BMC or Compuware Product Managers blogging outside the firewall or actively participating in public forums. Keep it up Tyler, Greg and crew. Post often!
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My recent article on BSM generated more e-mail than just about any other story this year. What was most interesting were the different (and diametrically opposed) perspectives that I saw.
** Where’s my comments on this post? **
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“You can look at the ‘health’ of all your data-center stuff in relation to how smoothly, or not, the business is running,” said Michael Coté, an analyst with Redmonk.
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despite their potential benefits, BSM initiatives can be daunting. This session presents practical advice designed to help you avoid pitfalls and achieve quick wins right now!
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I can’t help but think Firescope is onto something. The company is achieving an 8% conversion rate from downloads. That is high by any standards. In those larger deployments: NASDAQ and Slumberland are customers – Firescope offers a deeper range …
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The Megavendors In IT Management Software by Jean-Pierre Garbani, Peter O’Neill – Forrester Researchweakness of the US domestic market will lead to increased competition between these megavendors in both the US market and abroad, where currency exchange rates make markets even more attractive.
**Anyone have access?*
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This white paper summarizes the BMC Foundation Discovery and BMC Topology Discovery 1.5.01 performance and scalability lab test results.
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Challenge: “Make Managed Object’s products available for download as part of a free trial, publish your prices and the real cost of and the timeframe of implementing your products. Then let the customers decide what solution delivers against their needs”
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No one wants to put themselves through so much pain to end up with a solution that’s collecting dust a year after deployment because it was too hard to maintain.
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announced that it has named Abbas Haider Ali as Vice President of Product Strategy
** Hmm, little mention of a BSM background? **
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Some things which are bad and make no sense:
* Lack of clarity in strategy for Webtop vs TBSM (which customers seem to build BSM on Webtops).
* ITCAM is total junk, and is years behind competing products from HP (Mercury).