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links for 2008-03-12

• Taking the Next Step with BSM

  BSM meets dinner analogy, nice writeup by Paul Burns who I met during his HP days, now at EMA.

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EMC adds Service Desk to Data Center Management portfolio

EMC made a move yesterday that continued to show their intent and desire to compete against the Big 4 in IT Infrastructure Management (e.g., BMC, CA, HP, IBM).  All those other players have their own Service Desk offering, so it was time to join those ranks.

links for 2008-03-06

• Change management software eases PCI compliance burden
  nice write-up on change/configuration mgmt...

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  March 5, 2008  7:59 PM
  
  

  Top Enterprise Management Tools vs. Data Center Automation Blueprint

  
  
  Posted by: Ryan Shopp
  Analytics, Application monitoring, BMC, CA, CMDB, DataCenter, DCAB, HP Software, IBM Tivoli, InfoVista, IT Process Automation, NetQoS, Netuitive, Network Configuration, Network monitoring, Networkingchannel, Opnet, Performance management, RBA, RealOps, Run Book Automation, Systems monitoring, Tideway

  I was doing some "light" reading this morning and came upon this recent article:  Top 10 Enterprise Management Tools It's focused on Complete Enterprise Management, not...

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  March 3, 2008  5:00 PM
  
  

  Month in Review – February 2008

  
  
  Posted by: Ryan Shopp
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  Quick summary of the month.  Always looking for more feedback or comments in each thread so please mark down a action item in your task list to go throw in a nickel or dime of insights. Data Center Automation Blueprint - Progress Reports
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  February 28, 2008  4:55 PM
  
  

  Analytics; What are the top capabilities?

  
  
  Posted by: Ryan Shopp
  Alterpoint, Analytics, BMC, Configuresoft, DataCenter, DCAB, Integrien, NCCM, Netuitive, Opnet

  Recently, I made some adjustments to the Data Center Automation Blueprint where we combined 2 original areas and added a new one for Analytics.  Steve Henning just posted a great guest blog entry...

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  links for 2008-02-27

  
  
  Posted by: Ryan Shopp
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  • Aperture Technologies acquired
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  links for 2008-02-25

  
  
  Posted by: Ryan Shopp
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  • VMware has a 2-years lead over competitors but will face a harsh price war
    nice summary of new Yankee report on...

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    February 21, 2008  11:18 PM
    
    

    IT Resource Reconciliation (CMDB) – Top 5 Capabilities

    
    
    Posted by: Ryan Shopp
    CMDB, DataCenter, DCAB, Tideway

    The crew over a Tideway offered up and impressive in-depth product demo last week. It made me realize I haven't

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