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IT Process Orchestration Revisited

I decided it was time to review and make an update to the IT Process Automation, Process Orchestration, Run Book Automation, Data Center Automation, IT Process Integration, or whatever name each vendor, customer or analysts choose to call it.  Since my last update to the

Performance and Availability Management vs. Analytics – Part 1 of ?

I've had an opportunity to be briefed over the past couple months by a number of current Data Center Automation Blueprint's Performance & Availability vendors (e.g., CITTIO, eG...

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.

Couple recent notes on CMDB, aka Resource Reconciliation

Another great post by Glenn O'Donnell; CMDB is the new integration mechanism. I'm looking forward to seeing his forthcoming book on the same topic!

Quick Monday Summary of events from late last week/weekend

 Symantec to sell off Application Performance Monitoring group.  Looks like Precise Software is back and the Symantec Data Center group will focus in on the configuration and change management...

What are the most desired features in IT Process Orchestration (e.g. RBA)?

Alright, looking for feedback on this one. After talking about the players in the IT Process Orchestration space, I'm wondering what are...

Digging into the DCAB 6′s functional areas: Process Orchestration

Alright, back on track with our review of the 6 functional DCAB areas. We are now onto the hottest, fastest growth areas! First up, Process Orchestration or what Gartner has coined as Run Book Automation?

These...

Digging into each of these 6 functional areas: Performance and Capacity

First things first, we have many of the same vendors from the Availability & Notification functional area of this Data Center Automation Blueprint in this category. Which probably begs the question, do we combine Availability & Notification with Performance & Capacity? I know in the...

So let’s start to dig into each of these 6 functional areas: Availability and Notification

So it's time to start refining the Data Center Automation Blueprint. One way I hope to do that is through these next 6 blog posts (one for each functional DCA category) that will: 1) create list of vendors I know about that have some capabilities for the data center in the specified functional...

What are the Six Functional Areas of Data Center Automation

Alright, here is my first pass at a graphic I'm attempting to build that will capture the spirit of my previous posts (this is a work still in progress as previously mentioned);