Adventures in Data Center Automation:

December, 2007


December 31, 2007  6:47 PM

Month in Review – December 2007



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
DataCenter

Thanks for all your feedback and ideas during this months postings. Keep them coming. Development of Data Center Automation Blueprint (DCAB)

December 28, 2007  11:31 PM

Digging into each of these 6 functional areas: Performance and Capacity



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Alcatel-Lucent, Apparent Networks, BMC, Brix Networks, CA, Compuware, DataCenter, EMC, Entuity, Fluke Networks, Gomez, Groundwork, HP Software, Hyperic, IBM Tivoli, InfoVista, Integrien, Keynote, Nagios, NetIQ, NetQoS, NetScout, Netuitive, Network Instruments, Network monitoring, OpenNMS, Opnet, OSS, Packet Design, Performance management, Quest Software, Symantec, Systems monitoring, Xangati, Zabbix, ZenOSS

First things first, we have many of the same vendors from the Availability & Notification functional area of this Data Center Automation Blueprint in this category. Which probably begs the question, do we combine Availability & Notification with Performance & Capacity? I know in the...


December 27, 2007  6:04 PM

Great write-up on Security Managment activities this year



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
EMC, HP Software, IBM Tivoli, Security, Securitychannel, Symantec

I have Security as one of the 6 DCAB Functional Categories.  This article does a great job highlighting some key landscape changes in the overall...


December 24, 2007  5:52 PM

So let’s start to dig into each of these 6 functional areas: Availability and Notification



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BMC, CA, DataCenter, EMC, HP Software, IBM Tivoli, NetIQ, Quest Software

So it's time to start refining the Data Center Automation Blueprint. One way I hope to do that is through these next 6 blog posts (one for each functional DCA category) that will: 1) create list of vendors I know about that have some capabilities for the data center in the specified functional...


December 21, 2007  9:36 PM

BarCampESM, January 18-20th – Austin, TX



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
OSS, Systems monitoring

Just learned about this and it sounds really cool!  Thanks for the heads-up Doug, and to think it's just down the road basically in my backyard. http://barcampesm.org BarCampESM will throw users, developers, vendors, and anyone else interested in systems...


December 19, 2007  8:42 PM

Great IBM Tivoli ESM Recap, quick stab at mapping to DCAB



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
IBM Tivoli

John Willis posted a great recap of Enterprise System Management moves IBM Tivoli has been doing over the recent years. This has great applicability to my attempt at defining a Data Center Automation Blueprint. Here...


December 17, 2007  5:59 PM

Next pass on Data Center Automation “Blueprint”



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Application monitoring, CMDB, DataCenter, eTOM, FCAPS, IT Process Automation, ITIL, Network monitoring, Performance management, RBA, Run Book Automation, Security, Storage, Systems monitoring, Systemschannel, Virtualization, WAN optimization

Thanks for the feedback, I've incorporated some points that have been made into an updated version of the Data Center Automation Blueprint (DCAB).

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December 14, 2007  4:50 PM

Recent activities in Configuration Management, tis’ the season of webinars



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Alterpoint, BladeLogic, BMC, CA, Configuresoft, DataCenter, Ecora, EMC, mValent, NCCM, Network Configuration, Solidcore

December is a time when things typically "slow" down for the holidays.  Many data centers are under a freeze where no major changes can occur (or should occur), etc.  So I guess it's a great time to do a little research for next year.  Bring on the webinars which many vendors seem to...


December 12, 2007  8:32 PM

Pondering Cisco and their play in Data Center Automation…



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BEA, BMC, Cisco, DataCenter

Great article by Jim Duffy, NetworkWorld, called "Cisco to accelerate shift to software and data center in 2008" had some really interesting thoughts. One statement that got those...


December 10, 2007  6:44 PM

2 of 10 are “disruptive” according to Gartner



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
CMDB, DataCenter, IT Process Automation, RBA, Run Book Automation

Gartner held their Data Center conference during the last week of November where a presentation was given by Research Vice President Carl Claunch on his view of the top 10 disruptive technologies for the data...