by delicious
on November 24, 2009
Links that I have found interesting for November 24th:
- BSM Review Launch – This week we launch a new website called www.BSMReview.com.
We believe that only through an exchange of ideas that is unfettered from the revenue and branding objectives of vendors and from the research agenda of any one analyst firm can BSM become a dynamic contributor to the evolution of IT as a welcomed business partner within the enterprise community.
This website is focused on identifying the “next thing to do” to achieve a desirable level of BSM. Dialogue is open to whoever wishes to participate. There is no fee to join …no content that requires a subscription …and no censorship of reasonable ideas and questions. We welcome the addition of qualified contributors to our panel of experts. More importantly, we welcome the content contribution of any person, company or association that can move BSM forward in its goal of reducing IT’s cost, increasing IT’s efficiency and lowering IT’s risk as judged by IT’s customers …which are the business units.
- BMC Communities: Blog: The BSM Continuum: Tales from the Field: No Shortcuts – I came across this pretty good site (Doug McClure) containing clear definitions of Business Service Management and many of its constituencies. What I like about this blog piece is not just the explanation that Doug provides. I like the fundamental truth that he says about it being an evolution and the implication he makes that you have to be patient. The whole exercise takes time and energy and any vendor who tells you otherwise is simply not telling the truth. As I continue to grow in this industry, as I build my personal library of stories from customers, I have yet to come across any evidence that there are any shortcuts in the orchestration of significant change (of the magnitude required by BSM).
- Integrien Alive 7 Provides Unprecedented Enterprise System Performance Management – Integrien Corporation, the leader in real-time performance analytics, today announced the next major version of its flagship software, Alive 7. The offering includes new root cause and problem isolation algorithms, as well as powerful new visualizations that provide unprecedented insight into the performance of IT infrastructure, applications, and business services across the entire enterprise.
- SL Corporation Launches RTView® for APM|BW Monitor™ s – SL Corporation®, a leading provider of real-time monitoring, analytics and visualization software, today announced the general availability of RTView® for APM|BW Monitor™ designed to take the time and guesswork out of monitoring and troubleshooting TIBCO® ActiveMatrix® BusinessWorks™ implementations. This out-of-the-box solution provides a centralized view of both real-time and historical performance metrics across numerous BusinessWorks (BW) engines and related services, processes and activities.
- INETCO and Stratus Partnership Delivers Critical Business Transaction Information with Exceptional Availability – INETCO(TM) Systems Limited, the only business transaction management (BTM) provider that delivers cross-tier visibility into ATM, POS, and card processing applications and networks, and Stratus Technologies, the Availability Company(R), today announced a new product bundle that promises no-compromise continuous availability of the financial industry's most critical transaction information.
by delicious
on November 24, 2009
These are my links for October 28th through November 24th:
- Oblicore Sets Record Growth in Service Level Management – Further, OVUM Butler Group identified Oblicore as one of the leaders in this marketspace and noted five key product strengths for Oblicore Guarantee:
* Impressive pre-defined content supports and simplifies the formulation of contracts and SLAs.
* Correlates the financial implications of performance against SLAs, such as service costs, and penalties and rewards.
* Provides good reporting capabilities, including forecasting and alerts.
* Provides out-of-the-box adapters to common business applications and infrastructure management solutions.
* Graphically represents service dependency on infrastructure elements and other service interdependencies.
- SevOne Names William J. Conners Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development – SevOne, the leading provider of innovative network performance management solution for optimizing application delivery, today announced that it has appointed William J. Conners, Jr. as its Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development. His arrival underscores the explosive adoption rate of affordable and scalable network performance management solutions and illustrates SevOne's commitment to the expansion of its solution into global markets.
- Correlsense SharePath Adds Enhanced Application Domain Support as Part of Its Fall 2009 Release – For the Line of Business or Application Owner, the new Application Domain Support feature can zoom in on the location of the infrastructure or application components where the business transaction or business service is beginning to degrade. By displaying this information visually to the appropriate support teams enables them to address the problem proactively before SLAs are violated.
Application Domain support also provides Application Owners and Application Support teams the application-specific views they need even when multiple applications are using shared or virtualized infrastructure.
Additionally, for IT managers, the new Application Domains support allows accurate charge-backs by applications, as the view of transaction activity or transaction workload can be provided for each application. Moreover, capacity planners can have application specific views to see the trends or anomalies within transaction activity, based on which they can accurately plan ahead.
- 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
- IBM – TBSM 4.2 Console Basics – Abstract:
This STE will cover:
– TBSM Pages
– TBSM Portlets
– TIP console layout
– Custom Views, folders, pages and portlets
Presented by: Joy Hawkins
Date: November 2, 2009
11:00 AM Eastern US
- WebSphere Business Monitor (WBM) REST API Guide – Business Monitor REST API reference
This section outlines the set of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) provided by the Business Monitor API. The Business Monitor API is implemented using Representational State Transfer (REST) Services, and the resulting data returned is in the format of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). The URIs are a set of REST services that open access to Monitor data.
by delicious
on October 20, 2009
Links that I have found interesting for October 20th:
- Nimsoft Provides Visibility into the Cloud – Nimsoftis launching a benchmarking service today for enterprise customers that will help them define and measure the actual costs of cloud computing and monitor the performance of IT infrastructure.
The benchmarking service monitors the multiple systems of an enterprise and pulls them into a unified view. These include internal systems, managed service providers, cloud-based and Software-as-a-Service investments.
The service offers visibility where to distribute workloads, identify problems in the infrastructure and look at performance metrics.
- Nimsoft takes another step forward in cloud monitoring – The initial release will cover the Amazon cloud and Rackspace, but Read said the company is taking measurements on Salesforce.com and has plans to expand to Microsoft and Google cloud offerings.
Read insisted this is not like those “cloud weather reports” we wrote about last year.
“You haven’t been able to monitor a single customer’s usage, and you haven’t been able to pull all the different threads, and combine that with an internal environment, into a single integrated view of the service delivery.
That’s the big play. It’s not about one provider. It’s about pulling all the threads together, because everything then becomes part of the same fabric of service delivery.”
- IBM Announces New Software for Managing Data Centers – The introduction of IBM's new VMControl product for enterprises, combined with IBM Tivoli software, gives businesses for the first time a single point of control across multiple types of IT systems and virtualization technologies. It spans UNIX/Linux, mainframe, x86 and storage systems and networks.
VMControl helps companies that have turned to virtualization – the creation of multiple virtual servers or storage on a single physical system – to reduce infrastructure costs, but have encountered new struggles as they try to manage enterprises made up of disparate platforms, each with their own virtualization technology.
- New Relic Sets the Standard for IT Management Tools with Next-Generation On-Demand Solution RPM Version 2 – New Relic, Inc., the leading software-as-a-service provider of application performance management solutions, today announced the general availability of New Relic RPM Version 2, the next generation of its leading application performance management product. Used by IT operations and development teams around the world to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize web applications, RPM Version 2 offers the first cross-platform performance management solution and includes significant enhancements such as scenario-based workflows, long-term SLA reporting, intuitive interface, and support for Java applications.
- Oblicore Guarantee Positioned as a Market Leader in OVUM Butler Group Technology Audit – Oblicore Guarantee has received a positive Technology Audit from OVUM Butler Group. The Technology Audit is OVUM Butler Group's industry-leading technology evaluation report that delivers OVUM Butler Group's thought leadership, opinion, and best practice through in-depth technical analysis.
Further, OVUM Butler Group identified Oblicore as one of the leaders in this marketspace and noted five key product strengths for Oblicore Guarantee:
• Impressive pre-defined content supports and simplifies the formulation of contracts and SLAs.
• Correlates the financial implications of performance against SLAs, such as service costs, and penalties and rewards.
• Provides good reporting capabilities, including forecasting and alerts.
• Provides out-of-the-box adapters to common business applications and infrastructure management solutions.
• Graphically represents service dependency on infrastructure elements and other service interdependencies.
- Correlsense SharePath Adds Enhanced Application Domain Support as Part of Its Fall 2009 Release – as part of its SharePath Fall 2009 release it has added Application Domain Support. With this new capability, application owners, application performance and IT operations managers can analyze how application transactions perform across the different components of the data center. It will also provide information for how each application's transactions can be fine-tuned, in order to optimize performance and reduce costs.
