{"id":681,"date":"2008-05-23T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/links-for-2008-05-24\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T04:31:00","slug":"links-for-2008-05-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/links-for-2008-05-24\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2008-05-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkcomputing.com\/blog\/dailyblog\/archives\/2008\/05\/the_bsm_debate.html;jsessionid=NHEGABZMDJAYEQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN#more\">Network Computing Blog | The BSM Debate<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">My recent article on BSM generated more e-mail than just about any other story this year. What was most interesting were the different (and diametrically opposed) perspectives that I saw.<\/p>\n<p>** Where&#8217;s my comments on this post? **<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(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\/networkcomputing\">networkcomputing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/windward-consulting-group\">windward-consulting-group<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/146181\/vendor_goes_after_smbs_with_bsm_offering.html\">Vendor Goes After SMBs With BSM Offering<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;You can look at the &#8216;health&#8217; of all your data-center stuff in relation to how smoothly, or not, the business is running,&#8221; said Michael Cot\u00e9, an analyst with Redmonk.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(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\/firescope\">firescope<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/firescopebe\">firescopebe<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/redmonk\">redmonk<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idgconnect.com\/index.cfm?pid=48&amp;pk=3267\">Business Service Management: A New Approach for Quick Wins<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">despite their potential benefits, BSM initiatives can be daunting. This session presents practical advice designed to help you avoid pitfalls and achieve quick wins right now!<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(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\/analyst\">analyst<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/netuitive\">netuitive<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/forrester\">forrester<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ovum.com\/news\/euronews.asp?id=7002\">Pulse 2008: IBM simplifies IT service management to facilitate business and IT convergence<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/ovum\">ovum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/ibm\">ibm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/tivoli\">tivoli<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/pulse\">pulse<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/enterprisealley\/?p=172\">Firescope crushes the BSM price point<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">I can\u2019t help but think Firescope is onto something. The company is achieving an 8% conversion rate from downloads. That is high by any standards. In those larger deployments: NASDAQ and Slumberland are customers &#8211; Firescope offers a deeper range &#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/firescope\">firescope<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/firescopebe\">firescopebe<\/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\/bsm4smb\">bsm4smb<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/bsm4lob\">bsm4lob<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/bsm4bu\">bsm4bu<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\/Research\/Document\/Excerpt\/0,7211,43904,00.html\">The Megavendors In IT Management Software by Jean-Pierre Garbani, Peter O&#8217;Neill &#8211; Forrester Research<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">weakness of the US domestic market will lead to increased competition between these megavendors in both the US market and abroad, where currency exchange rates make markets even more attractive. <\/p>\n<p>**Anyone have access?*\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/big4\">big4<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/forrester\">forrester<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/analyst\">analyst<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/management\">management<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/vendors\">vendors<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/market\">market<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/developer.bmc.com\/jiveProd\/entry.jspa?externalID=3274\">BMCDN : BMC Foundation Discovery and BMC Topology Discovery 1.5.01 Performance and Scalability<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">This white paper summarizes the BMC Foundation Discovery and BMC Topology Discovery 1.5.01 performance and scalability lab test results.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/bmc\">bmc<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/discovery\">discovery<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/appdisco\">appdisco<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/topology\">topology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/relationships\">relationships<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/firescope.typepad.com\/cotton\/2008\/05\/mr-strong-you-a.html\">100% Cotton: Mr. Strong you Arrogant Bad Boy!!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Challenge: &#8220;Make Managed Object&#8217;s products available for download as part of a free trial, publish your prices and the real cost of and the timeframe of implementing your products.  Then let the customers decide what solution delivers against their needs&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(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\/firescope\">firescope<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/firescopebe\">firescopebe<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/managedobjects\">managedobjects<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/firescope.typepad.com\/fireblog\/2008\/05\/toss-it-over-th.html\">The FireBlog: Toss it over the wall<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">No one wants to put themselves through so much pain to end up with a solution that\u2019s collecting dust a year after deployment because it was too hard to maintain.<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(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\/firescope\">firescope<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/firescopebe\">firescopebe<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openpr.com\/news\/45054\/Managed-Objects-Names-Vice-President-of-Product-Strategy.html\">Managed Objects Names Vice President of Product Strategy<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">announced that it has named Abbas Haider Ali as Vice President of Product Strategy<\/p>\n<p>** Hmm, little mention of a BSM background? **<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(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 class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techmm.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/ibm-pulse-2008-review.html\">Adventures of a Technical MasterMind: IBM Pulse 2008 &#8211; Review<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Some things which are bad and make no sense:<br \/>\n*  Lack of clarity in strategy for Webtop vs TBSM (which customers seem to build BSM on Webtops).<br \/>\n* ITCAM is total junk, and is years behind competing products from HP (Mercury).<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/ibm\">ibm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/tivoli\">tivoli<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/pulse\">pulse<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/review\">review<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/opinion\">opinion<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/feedback\">feedback<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/netcool\">netcool<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/tbsm\">tbsm<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/dmcclure\/webtop\">webtop<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network Computing Blog | The BSM Debate My recent article on BSM generated more e-mail than just about any other story this year. What was most interesting were the different (and diametrically opposed) perspectives that I saw. ** Where&#8217;s my comments on this post? ** (tags: bsm business-service-management networkcomputing windward-consulting-group) Vendor Goes After SMBs With [&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-681","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\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}