May, 2008

nice writeup that gives credit to all the great work done by Doug on BSM.

“Data centers generally run in 10-year cycles. A lot of them were built in the late ’90s for the Internet boom, and now those are way outdated—especially when it comes to conserving power,” he said. “It’s very expensive to renovate the old ones

Unfortunately, EDS brings nothing to the table when it comes to SaaS, managed services or other utility-based offerings. Instead, it saddles HP with lots of aging people, facilities and business ideas that haven’t kept pace with today’s realities.

Crouchman said Opalis is seeing much of its market opportunities come from firms that are struggling with configuration management, server provisioning, fault and incident management and an emerging trend around high availability and disaster recovery.

Close to 80% of attendees are either using virtualization now or planning to use virtualization in 12 months, and a plurality of respondents – 38% - said the virtualization presented the greatest monitoring challenges.

“BMC Software chose to work with TIBCO because of their commitment to, and participation in, the creation and support of open standards. ActiveMatrix will power a SOA-enabled solution that will position BMC far ahead of our competitors

Cirba now caters to users that run IBM’s System z. At an IBM event last year, System z General Manager James Stallings revealed that of the mainframes IBM ships today, about 25% of their workloads are designated to run Linux.

You told us that Windows is great, and Windows might be a large part of your data center, but for many of you, you have heterogeneity out there. So we’re taking a step towards allowing you to have one single solution with System Center

Dell also has enhanced partnerships with VMware Inc. and Citrix Systems Inc. And it has added a new partnership with Egenera, whose products virtualize an entire data center, beyond the servers and storage devices.

“Splunk brings change audit events and configuration data together with activity and error logs so you can connect change with actual system and user behavior