links for 2008-06-04

• Does a “Proactive/Predictive” Tool make for a “Proactive/Predictive” Organization?
  Discussion around Performance & Capacity Analytics solutions
  (tags: analytics performance-and-availability-management performance)
• Making the Most Out of IT Automation
  HP view on why manual approaches no longer scale in the enterprise, and what to do about it in terms of consolidating data center functions through virtualization.
  (tags: virtualization rba run-book-automation process+orchestration)
• the IT management Vendor Landscape Becomes More Cloudy
  discussion around impact of virtualization management software companies with the old guard (e.g., BMC, CA, HP, IBM)
  (tags: virtualization)
• What Business Service Management means to IBM Tivoli
  what BSM is and how he’s driving IBM Tivoli’s BSM direction in current and future releases of the BSM portfolio from IBM Tivoli
  (tags: ibm bsm analytics)