links for 2008-04-03

• 5 Steps to Transparent Metrics
  nice write-up on IT metric formulation
• CA hints at data center automation product plans
  “We have outlined key areas around data center automation and incorporated it into key products. Then we have a new product we will be talking about in the coming months that further ties our products together,” says Sam Somashekar, a director of product
  (tags: DCA)
• Small Flood of New Data Latency Monitors
• With predictive analytics tool, a data center troubleshoots proactively
• Network pros spend months on troubleshooting
  The majority of networking professionals spend more than two months a year troubleshooting network performance problems. They spend more than 25 days a year just replicating problems on the network in order to understand what’s going on. And spend more t