{"id":1845,"date":"2009-04-03T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/interesting-links-for-april-3rd\/"},"modified":"2009-04-03T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T20:00:21","slug":"interesting-links-for-april-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/interesting-links-for-april-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links for April 3rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for April 3rd:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/searchdatacenter.techtarget.com\/news\/article\/0,289142,sid80_gci1352769,00.html\">BMC updates CMDB software in down economy<\/a> &#8211; Michael Cot&eacute; of RedMonk, an IT research firm in Seattle, Wash., agreed. &quot;Getting set up in a CMDB is a long, expensive process. The benefits kick in long term:better decision making power over your IT. In a climate where you read about layoffs every day, no one in the IT department thinks long term: their focus is on making short-term wins that justify their job and the overall IT budget,&quot; Cot&eacute; said. &quot;If the ax man comes around and asks for your status, and you tell them you&#39;re six months into an 18-month ITIL[IT Infrastructure Library]\/CMDB\/BSM [business services management] project, things start to look grim.\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s better to have immediate, here-and-now cost savings or, even better, revenue generating projects to report on. Large-scale IT projects, like CMDBs, are like flossing: if you&#39;re smart enough to know that you should do them, you&#39;ll have more teeth in later years. But how many people floss each day? Not many,&quot; Cot&eacute; said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for April 3rd from 14:36 to 14:36<\/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-1845","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\/1845","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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}