links for 2008-05-09

• Opalis offers data center automation data to execs
  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.
  (tags: process+orchestration Run-book-automation RBA)
• Polling at Interop.Network Performance Blog, Network Performance Management News, Tutorials, Resources - Network Performance Blog
  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.
  (tags: virtualization)
• BMC Software to Embed TIBCO’s ActiveMatrix into BSM Platform
  “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 server consolidation software targets mainframes
  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.
  (tags: virtualization)