{"id":1254,"date":"2008-12-19T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2008-12-19T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T10:00:14","slug":"interesting-links-for-december-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/interesting-links-for-december-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links for December 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for December 18th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2008\/121808-bmc-tools-cisco-california-blade-server.html?hpg1=bn\">BMC tools will be key to Cisco&#39;s &#39;California&#39; blade server &#8211; Network World<\/a> &#8211; BMC is so strategic to California, and California so strategic to Cisco that Cisco may look to acquire all or parts of the systems-management company, sources say.\n<p>&quot;If they could bolster their data center story by acquiring BMC, they would,&quot; said one source. &quot;It&#39;s always on the radar.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprisemanagement.webex.com\/ec0509l\/eventcenter\/recording\/recordAction.do?theAction=poprecord&amp;confViewID=29204777&amp;rnd=2479827199&amp;siteurl=enterprisemanagement&amp;servicename=EC&amp;recordKey=F7BA6699640B929DEBDFDEBAA0F4A9F2A36773D55882A8C6DBDAA9A1C7D17404&amp;RecordingID=29204777&amp;AT=VR&amp;needFilter=false\">EMA QoE Webinar Replay with Dennis Drogseth<\/a> &#8211; ** TOO MUCH STUDY\/CHART FOCUS AND NOT ENOUGH MARKET FOCUS **\n<p>Understanding Quality of Experience (QoE) helps IT and business planners better assess how effectively IT services &ndash; from Web applications and client\/server ERP applications to VoIP and rich media &ndash; are being utilized by their service consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Join Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) Vice President Dennis Drogseth for a discussion on this topic and to hear highlights from the latest EMA QoE research report. During this one-hour Webinar, Dennis will provide insights into how businesses and IT professionals can:<\/p>\n<p>*Leverage QoE-related technologies<br \/>\n*Establish better processes for working together<br \/>\n*Prioritize technology and organizational priorities, as well as processes<br \/>\n*Common roadblocks and recommendations to overcome them<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligententerprise.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/will_ibm_add_a.html\">Will IBM Add Analytics to its Toolbelt?<\/a> &#8211; The gist of Ambuj Goyal&#39;s message in this Q&amp;A interview is that predictive and statistical modeling &mdash; key offerings for the likes of SAS and SPSS &mdash; are overrated. IBM has what Goyal describes as better, cheaper alternatives in a mix of techniques developed for industry- and domain-specific challenges.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/getdoc.jsp?pid=23571113&amp;containerId=215738\">Correlsense &#8212; IDC &#8211; Document at a Glance<\/a> &#8211; This IDC Vendor Profile analyzes Correlsense, a company playing in the BTM market, and reviews key success factors: market potential, technology\/solution, corporate strategy, force multipliers, and customers. Leveraging IDC&#39;s expert understanding of the competitive landscape and future outlook, this document highlights company and market information tailored to the investment professional&#39;s needs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pr-inside.com\/aternity-reports-2008-milestones-signals-r973995.htm\">Aternity Reports 2008 Milestones, Signals Industry-Wide Embrace Of Next-Generation Application Performance Management<\/a> &#8211; &#39;We are extremely gratified that our Frontline Performance Intelligence platform continues to be embraced by industry-leading organizations world-wide,&#39; said Trevor Matz, President and CEO of Aternity. &#39;Our exponential growth in 2008 is a testament to the rapid ROI our user-centric, proactive IT management platform delivers, by enabling customer to optimize their business processes, increase productivity and dramatically reduce business disruptions. Server-based computing, desktop virtualization, and thin-client computing initiatives have also been significant catalysts for our business growth in 2008, and we believe this growing trend will continue throughout 2009 and beyond.&#39;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for December 18th: BMC tools will be key to Cisco&#39;s &#39;California&#39; blade server &#8211; Network World &#8211; BMC is so strategic to California, and California so strategic to Cisco that Cisco may look to acquire all or parts of the systems-management company, sources say. &quot;If they could bolster their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[989,926,600,604,936,601,603,602],"class_list":{"0":"post-1254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-bsm","8":"tag-business-service-management","9":"tag-delicious","10":"tag-itmanagement","11":"tag-itsm","12":"tag-links","13":"tag-read","14":"tag-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}