by delicious
on March 5, 2009
Links that I have found interesting for March 4th:
- AT&T Selected as Netuitive "Best Implementation of the Year" for 2008 – AT&T has been selected by a committee of Netuitive executives and technical services staff for its first annual Best Implementation of the Year Award for 2008. AT&T uses Netuitive self-learning performance management software to proactively monitor hundreds of applications across multiple data centers, spanning thousands of servers and databases. Netuitive software is correlating and analyzing more than 1 million key performance indicators at AT&T simultaneously.
The Netuitive solution is used by AT&T to manage some of their most mission-critical employee and customer services. “While there were other excellent candidates for the award, AT&T was definitely a standout this year,” said Nicola Sanna, president and CEO of Netuitive. “Their comprehensive use of Netuitive across hundreds of critical applications, along with the level of automation and operational efficiency they’ve achieved, made them the clear winner.”
- System Management by Exception: Real-Time Statistical Exception Detection – Does that make sense to apply statistical filtering to real-time computer performance data? I did not try as I believe analyzing last day data against historical baseline (based on dynamic statistical thresholds) would be enough to have good alert for upcoming issue and at the same time classical alerting system (based on constant thresholds, for instance, patrol or sites-scope ) captures severe incidents if something completely dying.
But I see some companies do that using the following three (at least) products available on a market:
by delicious
on March 4, 2009
Links that I have found interesting for March 4th:
- VMware is becoming an infrastructure management company – All these elements point to a single direction.
Of course VMware denies such ambitious project. Admitting today that within 5-7 years it will become the biggest competitors of its partners BMC, CA, HP and IBM is not a good idea.
But the reality is that the company wants virtualization to be ubiquitous and wants to satisfy every necessity its customers have inside the virtual sphere.
This is why VMware feels the need, for instance, to acquire B-hive and provide a performance analysis tool for the applications running inside its virtual machines.
Or why it feels the need to acquire Determina and Blue Lane Technology to stack up a number of security products.
Or why it has to deliver a patch management solution that does much more than just updating the ESX hosts.
The list may go on and on (and will do in the near future).
by delicious
on March 3, 2009
Links that I have found interesting for March 2nd:
- Centina Systems – *** Anyone have any feedback on these guys? ***
NetOmnia™ is a carrier-class customer-centric service assurance system. Designed with a web-based, multi-tier architecture, NetOmnia™ can scale to manage several thousands of heterogeneous devices and handle event loads of over 200 million events a day. When deployed in clusters, the system offers 99.999% availability.
- BDNA Corporation – *** Anyone have experience with this stuff? ***
BDNA’s patented technology creates a complete and relevant view of IT, delivering the insight that the Office of the CIO needs to operate effectively.
BDNA delivers a comprehensive fact base of the technology distributed throughout your business, even that outside of the traditional bounds of IT. By combining high speed, agentless discovery with business-specific and market information, we make the complex simple, with relevant and timely insight into technology.
BDNA’s applications and role-based analytic solutions help CIOs, IT Operations and Management, Procurement, Security and Risk Management executives make informed decisions that power better business performance.
