{"id":471,"date":"2007-10-08T23:18:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T04:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/links-for-2007-10-09\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T23:18:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T04:18:39","slug":"links-for-2007-10-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/links-for-2007-10-09\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2007-10-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/BMC\/News\/CDA\/hou_PressRelease_detail\/0,3519,8573740_8630060_93686316,00.html\">BMC Software acquires Emprisa Networks<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Wonder why they choose these guys over local Alterpoint or nearby Voyence.  This is the second acquisition in the NCCM space after Opsware picked up Rendition Networks.  IBM still lacking in tihs area IMO.<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/BMC\">BMC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/emprisanetworks\">emprisanetworks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/alterpoint\">alterpoint<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/voyence\">voyence<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/nccm\">nccm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/changemanagement\">changemanagement<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/networkmanagement\">networkmanagement<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/discovery\">discovery<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/ITSM\">ITSM<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/M&amp;A\">M&amp;A<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/BMC\/News\/CDA\/hou_PressRelease_detail\/0,3519,8573740_8630060_93686304,00.html\">BMC Software announces BMC Service Automation<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Service Automation is a super-set of device-focused datacenter automation. While datacenter automation offerings are essentially limited to server provisioning, Svc Automation delivers a much broader and deeper IT and business service delivery capability.<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/BMC\">BMC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/servicemanagement\">servicemanagement<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/automation\">automation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/provisioning\">provisioning<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/e2e\">e2e<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/bsm\">bsm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/business-service-management\">business-service-management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/itsm\">itsm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/M&amp;A\">M&amp;A<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnnet.com.au\/index.php?id=1257726500&amp;rid=-100\">BMC buying out configuration management company<\/a><\/div>\n<div>By combining BMC software, Emprisa technology and RealOps&#8217; AMP IT process automation software will help BMC provide the orchestration layer to automate such configuration management tasks across various IT domains.<\/p>\n<p>*What&#8217;s IBM&#8217;s play here???*<\/p><\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/BMC\">BMC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/M&amp;A\">M&amp;A<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/emprisanetworks\">emprisanetworks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/realops\">realops<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/automation\">automation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/nccm\">nccm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/provisioning\">provisioning<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2007\/100807-sap-buy-business-objects.html?netht=100807dailynews2&amp;&amp;nladname=100807dailynews\">SAP to buy Business Objects for $6.78 billion<\/a><\/div>\n<div>The deal will also allow SAP to integrate BI capabilities, which allow companies to analyze large amounts of data to improve business performance, more deeply in its own software applications, analysts said.<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/SAP\">SAP<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/BusinessObjects\">BusinessObjects<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/M&amp;A\">M&amp;A<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/home.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20071008005457&amp;newsLang=en\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection Selects Managed Objects<\/a><\/div>\n<div>&#8230; through Managed Objects \u201csingle pane of glass\u201d service perspective, the agency will ensure high availability and performance for those applications associated with port of entry operations \u2013 including passenger and cargo entering and leaving the<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/managedobjects\">managedobjects<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/bsm\">bsm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/business-service-management\">business-service-management<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/firescope.typepad.com\/cotton\/2007\/10\/wanted-great-vi.html\">100% Cotton: Wanted: Great Visionaries with Passion<\/a><\/div>\n<div>right candidates with great experience and passion, candidates willing to re-think about how IT operations and BSM tools have historically been delivered to the customer-  proprietary framework vs an open framework leveraging Web 2.0, Mash-Up\u2019s, AJAX, e<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/FireScope\">FireScope<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/bsm\">bsm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/business-service-management\">business-service-management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/itsm\">itsm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/careers\">careers<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMC Software acquires Emprisa Networks Wonder why they choose these guys over local Alterpoint or nearby Voyence. This is the second acquisition in the NCCM space after Opsware picked up Rendition Networks. IBM still lacking in tihs area IMO. (tags: BMC emprisanetworks alterpoint voyence nccm changemanagement networkmanagement discovery ITSM M&amp;A) BMC Software announces BMC Service [&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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}