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June 23, 2008  3:00 PM

So let’s talk a little about Traffic Flow Reporting and Analysis



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Accellent, Alcatel-Lucent, Application monitoring, Compuware, DataCenter, HP Software, InfoVista, NetQoS, NetScout, Network monitoring, Opnet, Packet Design, Performance management, SolarWinds, Xangati

Next up, I plan to dig into this sector a little deeper (as always from a purely data center centric perspective - aka no End-User Monitoring that requires a desktop agent). The priority for these products is to provide an end-to-end service/application perspective on traffic performance and...

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May 20, 2008  10:47 PM

Performance and Availability vs. Analytics – Part 4 of 5



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
DataCenter, Firescope, Integrien, Managed Objects, Opnet

Sorry for the delay but family time called as we were blessed with a baby boy a couple weeks ago.  So back on track; in part one we hit data collection,

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April 21, 2008  3:11 PM

Performance and Availability vs. Analytics – Part 2 of ?



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Analytics, BMC, DataCenter, eg innovations, HP Software, Indicative, Integrien, NetQoS, Netuitive, Opnet

So in part 1 we talked through the collection of performance/capacity/availability data. Next up is focused on where innovations using this collected data are taking us. The next level of Performance...

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April 17, 2008  9:58 PM

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



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Alcatel-Lucent, Analytics, Apparent Networks, Application monitoring, BMC, Brix Networks, CA, cittio, Compuware, DCAB, eg innovations, Entuity, Firescope, Fluke Networks, Gomez, Groundwork, HP Software, Hyperic, IBM Tivoli, Indicative, InfoVista, Integrien, Keynote, Nagios, NetIQ, NetQoS, NetScout, Netuitive, Network Instruments, Network monitoring, nimsoft, OpenNMS, Opnet, Packet Design, Performance management, Quest Software, SolarWinds, Systems monitoring, Xangati, ZenOSS

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...

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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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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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December 28, 2007  11:31 PM

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



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Alcatel-Lucent, Apparent Networks, BMC, Brix Networks, CA, Compuware, DataCenter, EMC, Entuity, Fluke Networks, Gomez, Groundwork, HP Software, Hyperic, IBM Tivoli, InfoVista, Integrien, Keynote, Nagios, NetIQ, NetQoS, NetScout, Netuitive, Network Instruments, Network monitoring, OpenNMS, Opnet, OSS, Packet Design, Performance management, Quest Software, Symantec, Systems monitoring, Xangati, Zabbix, ZenOSS

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...

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