links for 2008-04-09

• Oblicore Announces Revolutionary ITIL Based Service Catalog Solution
  Anybody have compare/contrast documentation of CMDB’s vs. Service Catalogs?
  (tags: CMDB)
• Cisco and EMC announce data-leak prevention partnership
  multiple security & prevention initiatives outline between Cisco & EMC.
  (tags: security prevention)
• The Forrester Wave Service Desk Management Tools, Q2 2008 - Forrester Research
  Axios, BMC, CA, HP, IBM, And Infra (now EMC) are the leaders quoted. Would love to read about the vision for how each of these are tying into their investments in Data Center Automation (e.g., Run Book, CMDB, etc)…but I don’t have $795 laying around
  (tags: CMDB)
• Rolling Review Kickoff: Network Behavior Analysis Systems
  In essence, these vendors provide the missing piece–behavioral detection–to the IDS world that antivirus vendors discovered was a necessity more than a decade ago
  (tags: application-performance-management)
• Tripwire Enterprise Maximizes IT Expertise Through Policy-Based Management
  Tripwire enhances it’s policy management capabilities
  (tags: security change)
• Does Green IT Matter?
  Caldwell called green IT a myth made up by people that want to believe they are doing something good for the environment and by businesses that want a new way to sell more products. I would have to side toward Ronnie’s view; it’s simply comes down to mon
  (tags: datacenter)