{"id":1764,"date":"2009-02-26T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2009-02-26T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T10:00:29","slug":"interesting-links-for-february-25th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2009\/02\/interesting-links-for-february-25th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links for February 25th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for February 25th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/spaces\/cloud\">developerWorks spaces: cloud, cloud computing, saas, software as a service<\/a> &#8211; snazzy developerworks site for all things cloud<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communities.hp.com\/online\/blogs\/mbsmreality\/archive\/2009\/02\/24\/bsm-evolution-paths-auto-industry-sample.aspx\">BSM Evolution Paths: Auto Industry Sample &#8211; Making Business Service Management a Reality<\/a> &#8211; The VPITops needed a quick win.  He believed that visually demonstrating and reporting performance and availability from a business service perspective -versus an infrastructure perspective- would be a catalyst for driving &ldquo;aligned&rdquo; IT behavior.  The current network and infrastructure products didn&rsquo;t have this capability, so VPITops leveraged the tools already proven by the application test and level 3 support team.\n<p>VPITops established a new team within Operations (parallel to infrastructure event management) to own and run the end-to-end business service visibility\/accountability solution.  Integration was established between the two teams and tools.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtual-strategy.com\/Insights\/Is-Your-Monitoring-Solution-Virtualization-2.0-Ready-Heres-How-To-Find-Out.html\">Is Your Monitoring Solution &ldquo;Virtualization 2.0 Ready&rdquo;? Here&rsquo;s How To Find Out<\/a> &#8211; What to Look for in a Virtualization 2.0 Ready Monitoring Solution\n<p>A Virtualization 2.0 Ready management solution must offer superior automation and root-cause diagnosis to enable administrators with limited expertise to be effective in spotting problems and taking the proper corrective action quickly.  The following is what a Virtualization 2.0 Ready monitoring and management solution should be able to do.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsworkbench.com\/\">FireScope BSM &#8211; Slashing IT Costs and Saving Your Sanity<\/a> &#8211; If you haven&#39;t experienced FireScope Workbench 3.0, then you haven&#39;t experienced the best integrated collection of diagnostic and modeling tools available for IT Professionals today. Twice the feature set, a completely redesigned interface are just a few of the features of this latest release. Download now and dare to compare Workbench against it&#39;s over-priced competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for February 25th from 22:41 to 22:45<\/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-1764","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\/1764","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=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}