by delicious
on June 15, 2009
These are my links for June 12th through June 15th:
- IBM Smart Business Press Release (DRAFT) | CloudBzz – IBM today introduced the industry’s first set of “cloud” services and integrated products for the enterprise. This will give clients a reliable way to standardize IT functions that are rapidly becoming too costly or difficult to use.
- Tomorrow’s IBM “Smart Business” #CloudComputing Strategy – Today | Linux – The NY Times broke IBM’s embargo this morning by publishing their story on IBM’s new cloud computing initiatives. I’ve posted the full release here on CloudBzz.
The diagram below gives a bit of insight into where IBM is today and where they are heading.
- With a Big Push, IBM Gives Cloud Computing Its Blessing – IBM’s approach to cloud computing: task-specific clouds. The company will offer business processes as cloud services, according to a company press release. Here are the highlights of IBM’s announcement:
* Smart Business Test Cloud — A private cloud behind the client’s firewall
* Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud
* IBM CloudBurst — a pre-integrated set of hardware, storage,
virtualization and networking.
- IBM Redbooks | Implementing the Poughkeepsie Green Data Center: Showcasing a Dynamic Infrastructure – The IBM® Design Center Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, was running out of cooling capacity and needed to address continuing IT growth requirements. Innovative change was required and transformation of this infrastructure was achieved through IBM’s smarter planet and dynamic infrastructure vision. Energy efficiency for data centers has become an imperative area of focus as the price of energy increases and systems grow beyond the capacity of current facilities to supply their power and cooling needs.
by delicious
on June 12, 2009
These are my links for June 10th through June 12th:
- Who’s Hot In Business Service Management – Enterprises continue to invest in BSM projects, even with the economy going into recession, and BSM has been the battle cry of IT management software vendors for several years now. As a technology, it is founded on the ability to map business services to infrastructure components: This should provide visibility into IT from a business standpoint and give IT the ability to become more efficient and better aligned with the needs of the business. The vendor landscape for BSM has changed dramatically since the last Forrester Wave™ in Q1 2007. Forrester therefore interviewed 20 vendors and their customers to document the current vendor landscape for enterprises planning a new BSM project. The right solution depends on the chosen enterprise route to BSM, the existing infrastructure resources to be monitored, and the reporting needs. Also, only one-third of the effort for BSM is technological. The rest is addressing organizational challenges and establishing BSM processes.
- IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact and Netcool Omnibus Training for Tivoli User Group Members – June 17th 9am-4pm
- Vantage for Business Service Management by Compuware – Vantage for Business Service Management correlates disparate data sources across multiple platforms and delivers real-time and historical business-relevant information.
- Knoa Drives Proactive Resolution of Application and End-User Performance Issues – “The focus of Version 5.5 is proactive resolution,” said Lori Wizdo, vice president of Marketing for Knoa Software. “Knoa EPM 5.5 introduces advanced end-user analytics, the most comprehensive alerting available in the performance management industry and enhanced correlation and analysis capabilities – all of which enable customers to quickly turn the Knoa end-user and application performance metrics into proactive remediation initiatives to both improve performance and reduce costs.”
by delicious
on June 9, 2009
Links that I have found interesting for June 9th:
- Best practice to instrument transactions with Transaction Tracking API (TTAPI) – Applications with high availability and good performance are very important to enterprise businesses. However, the architecture of the application system is very complex at the present time, and can involve many components or servers in a production environment. Providing a high quality of service and improving the service level across an enterprise is a challenge for any IT management team.
IBM® Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for Transactions 7.1 Transaction Tracking (ITCAM for Transaction Tracking), is a tool that can help with these challenges. ITCAM for Transaction Tracking offers an API called TTAPI, which is a key component of ITCAM for Transaction Tracking that enables the on demand, end to end transaction tracking capability. This paper introduces a best practice for using the TTAPI.
- Novell® SalesTalk™ » Overview of Business Service Management – Ross Brunson give an overview of Business Service Management.
Novell Business Service Management solutions let you excel at your business by providing you with solutions to more effectively monitor and manage your IT infrastructure.
- Compuware launches new evolution of Vantage – Specifically, Vantage 11 unifies the performance management and business service management sides, so that the IT department not only checks that the applications are performing, but also ensures that this performance is aligned with the business goals.
"It is a monitoring solution, and our monitoring software watches the entry and exit points of the data centre, to measure real users and all transactions, all the time," he said. "The other approach is that we can stimulate end user actions, so called dummy or synthetic users."
"The Vantage 11 release combines end user experience (eue), with Proxima's business service management product, combining it all into one cohesive suite," he said.
"It is a large step forward and it is what makes us unique, by combining comprehensive eue (both real and synthetic) monitoring and business service management, as a single solution,"
- Compuware sees business in end-to-end service monitoring – He explained the toolset unifies what where previously the separate product lines of Vantage Service Manager, Server Vantage, Network Vantage and Client Vantage Active and Agentless, with Compuware’s Changepoint application portfolio management (APM) line.
