{"id":607,"date":"2008-02-25T23:19:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T04:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/links-for-2008-02-26\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T23:19:46","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T04:19:46","slug":"links-for-2008-02-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/links-for-2008-02-26\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-02-26"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/42internetworks.com\/blog\/?p=67\">Review of ZenOSS v2.1: has the features, but usability is challenging<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Bottom line, even though the community product is free, we came to the conclusion we rather pay $2500 (to Solarwinds for Orion) and get something that has been polished up and is much, much easier to use then work with ZenOSS when it comes to monitoring..<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/zenoss\">zenoss<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/oss\">oss<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/monitoring\">monitoring<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/reviews\">reviews<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/tech\/2008\/022008-tech-update.html?page=3\">A top-down approach to IT management<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Continued dependence on a bottom-up approach to IT operations will cost enterprises millions of dollars in lost revenue and productivity annually<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <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\/alignment\">alignment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/top-down\">top-down<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/bottom-up\">bottom-up<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/management\">management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/monitoring\">monitoring<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/bsm_value\">bsm_value<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xangati.com\/\">XANGATI<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Xangati focuses on delivering its RPI solution by providing IT with knowledge of the application experience of every endpoint. By taking an &#8220;endpoint-in&#8221; approach, the IT organization is in a position to be the First to Respond instead of their end users.<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/xangati\">xangati<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/monitoring\">monitoring<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/application_performance\">application_performance<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/top-down\">top-down<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/marketwire.com\/mw\/release.do?id=822475\">Netuitive Beefs up Service Analyzer With Added Support for CMDBs<\/a><\/div>\n<div>announced a new innovation for companies implementing Configuration Management Databases. Netuitive Service Analyzer now helps maximize the return on CMDB investments by augmenting Configuration Item (CI) data for end-to-end IT performance management<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/netuitive\">netuitive<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/cmdb\">cmdb<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/performancemgt\">performancemgt<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/analytics\">analytics<\/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:\/\/www.ebizq.net\/blogs\/bda\/2008\/02\/beware_the_alignment_trap.php\">Beware the &#8220;Alignment Trap&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n<div>pursuing business-driven IT, don\u2019t lose sight of the fundamentals, effectiveness, simplicity (to the degree possible), and constant communication. Host cross project\/initiative forums with key players (project managers, architects and business analysts)<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/alignment\">alignment<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/business-service-management\">business-service-management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/bsm\">bsm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/it-alignment\">it-alignment<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/servicecatalogs.typepad.com\/servicecatalogs\/2008\/02\/big-announcemen.html\">The Service Portfolio and Catalog Language<\/a><\/div>\n<div>The Service Portfolio and Catalog Language (SPACL) proposal provides a standards-based framework that will allow Service Catalog information to be shared with other IT functional areas and to promote the exchange of Service Portfolio and Catalog content<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/servicecatalog\">servicecatalog<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/serviceportfolio\">serviceportfolio<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/SPACL\">SPACL<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/itmanagementguys\">itmanagementguys<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideria.com\/2008\/02\/sciencelogic-using-flex-for-co.html\">ScienceLogic: Using Flex for Complex Data Visualization &#8211; InsideRIA<\/a><\/div>\n<div>Cynergy Systems was brought in to help with the task of visualizing complex computer network topologies in a web interface. The Flex framework provides everything that you need to dynamically load and render complex socially related data structures .<\/div>\n<div>(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/flex\">flex<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/flash\">flash<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/adobe\">adobe<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/visualization\">visualization<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/dashboards\">dashboards<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of ZenOSS v2.1: has the features, but usability is challenging Bottom line, even though the community product is free, we came to the conclusion we rather pay $2500 (to Solarwinds for Orion) and get something that has been polished up and is much, much easier to use then work with ZenOSS when it comes [&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-607","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\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}