links for 2008-06-07

• Network management SaaS provider pushing into U.S.
  In the same way that Apple is trying to make phone functionalities easier with the iPhone, we’re trying to take a similar approach
• Tool Replacements
  We are a HP NNM shop, and we’ve decided to finally get rid of it, due to the numerous problems we’ve been dealing with over the past several years. The amount of work that this tool needs is immense.
• BMC drops traditional identity management, focuses on Business Service Automation
  BMC believes that there is a huge potential to automate the way that IT departments are being run, and is implementing its vision of Business Service Automation to offer its customers a complete solution to do just that.
  (tags: bmc bsm)
• EMC Sees Gold in Network Management
  “Model-based management changes how management is done, and it’s more vendor neutral,” said Quillan. It’s quicker to deploy and EMC “is the only network manager in the space to [provide] tools for standard configuration across the entire infrastructure,”
  (tags: emc)
• Vizioncore working on automated capacity planning, application monitoring and VM lifecycle management | virtualization.info
  (tags: virtualization)