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Austin-based SolarWinds has bought Neon Software, a Lafayette, Calif.-based provider of mapping and visualization technology. With the acquisition, SolarWinds will expand its existing network management products.
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Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:QSFT) today announced its entry into the business services management (BSM) market, one of the fastest growing segments of IT systems management, with the acquisition of BSM vendor Magnum Technologies. The addition of Magnum a
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Also, IBM’s expanded Business Activity Monitoring software includes adapters that monitor activity from a variety of sources, including third-party software, can provide a single comprehensive view of business activity across an enterprise regardless of i
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ProactiveNet, the David of the Business Service Management realm, on May 30 will launch a new version of its namesake software to compete with BSM Goliaths such as Mercury Interactive and BMC Software.
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Quest Software announced their intentions to acquire Business Service Management vendor Magnum Technologies today.
I’m not sure of how much penetration Quest has ever gotten into the larger enterprise accounts with their full Foglight solution, but they have had broader success across the board with their various point tools for databases/applications, Java and Windows. Foglight (and it’s counterpart Big Brother) and the Spotlight products/plugins play firmly into the IT organization silos. They’ve got some great diagnostics capabilities and very “geek” oriented dashboards for managing, tweeking and tuning databases and applications. I’ve never seen too much of a top down, business oriented, non-IT focus other than messaging from Quest’s Foglight line in what I’d say was a true Business Service Mangement manner like other vendors have today. In my past, I helped break in Foglight 4 into an environment with upwards of 2000+ servers and hundreds of services/processes/transactions and it wasn’t a painless process. Foglight 5 is out now and at least looks like they’ve done some of the things they talked about in roadmap sessions I was familiar with in 2004-05. I am not sure how the backend architecture changed which was where all the problems existed for large deployments. A great product for environments with a few hundred servers!
It looks like the Magnum acquisition could be what Quest needs to get a real business and top down story in place and to broaden out from the pure play systems and application management space. If they play their cards right, having purpose built Business Service Management plays that are in line with Quest’s strengths that visibility into systems/application/databases, Java and Windows and SMART pricing/packaging could be very attractive for the SMB market. I know little about Magum’s Business Service Management solution and do not know anyone who uses it. I do know IBM Tivoli OEM’s some of their network discovery technology in the IBM Tivoli Netview family. More emphasis on network monitoring and management would also be a plus for Quest as well. They could easily take on share from the likes of the What’s Up Gold, Solarwinds and Open Source Software folks if they can find a way to “unify” the IT organization silos into a single vendor/solution strategy.
Should be interesting to follow the integration messaging!