links for 2008-02-27

• Aperture Technologies acquired
  Data Center Asset and Facilities Management vendor acquired
  (tags: acquisitions)
• When Application Management Collides with SOA
  write-up that talks about some differences around discovery/asset management capabilities. Specifically mentions some of the DCAB Resource Reconciliation vendors; Collation (now part of IBM), Relicore Inc. (acquired by Symantec), Tideway Systems and a ne
  (tags: Resource-Reconciliation)
• A top-down approach to IT management
  write-up by Xangati talking about values/benefits/differentiators with their Application Performance Management solution
  (tags: application-performance-management)