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by delicious on July 3, 2007

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The Open Source Advocate: Another reason I love open source software

ZipTie is a network management application that allows you discover and manage the devices on your network. I am always interested in open source network management applications, so I decided to test out ZipTie on our network.

(tags: ziptie alterpoint nccm discovery networkdiscoveryandtopology networkmanagement OSS)

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by delicious on July 2, 2007

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Homegrown applications are prime culprits to downtime

The company surveyed some 200 U.S. IT managers and senior leaders in June to discover what brings their networks down and the results show that homegrown applications are behind a majority of downtime in today’s networks. *How are apps taking netwk down?*

(tags: managedobjects businessimpactmgmt)
IBM, CA champion ITIL v3 with new products and services

CA Inc. and IBM Corp. have announced products and services designed to help organizations incorporate ITIL v3 concepts

(tags: IBM CA services itil servicemanagement)

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by delicious on June 30, 2007

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Project Zero

Project Zero is an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next generation of dynamic Web applications.

(tags: ajax development dojo ibm mashup php project web web2.0)
TouchGraph

TouchGraph’s powerful visualization solutions reveal relationships between people, organizations, and ideas.

(tags: visualization search tools web2.0 touchgraph charts data)
CMDB Federation of the Planets

“The interop test was an anti-climax.” – CA account of interop testing

(tags: cmdb cmdbf IBM HP CA Microsoft Fujitsu BMC cmdbfederation)

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