February 27, 2009 4:07 AM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BladeLogic,
BMC,
CA,
EMC,
HP Software,
IBM Tivoli,
NCCM,
SolarWindsWell AlterPoint has found a home. The last of the early/original NCCM (Network Configuration & Change Management) vendors, focused on Enterprise, has been acquired. Others have come along in the later days, but...
April 17, 2008 9:58 PM
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...
March 17, 2008 1:22 PM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BladeLogic,
BMC,
CA,
EMC,
HP Software,
IBM Tivoli,
RealOpsSo BMC is the one, not IBM or EMC that decides to piece it all together. Responding to HP acquiring Opsware (July '07); BMC, in less then a year, has acquired RealOps (July '07), Emprisa (Oct '07) and now BladeLogic...
March 11, 2008 1:27 PM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BladeLogic,
BMC,
DCAB,
EMC,
HP Software,
NetIQ,
NetQoS,
Packet Design,
Performance management,
Symantec,
XangatiEMC 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.
March 5, 2008 7:59 PM
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,
TidewayI 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...
January 25, 2008 9:00 AM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BMC,
CA,
CMDB,
DataCenter,
NetIQ,
Opalis,
Scalent,
SymantecAnother 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!
January 21, 2008 1:43 PM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BMC,
Compuware,
Indicative,
NetIQ,
NetQoS,
NetScout,
Quest Software,
Symantec 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...
January 18, 2008 4:14 PM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BMC,
CMDB,
DataCenter,
EMC,
HP Software,
IBM Tivoli,
ITIL,
Symantec The second up and coming area goes by many names these days. Some call it next-generation asset management, many others call it CMDB.
I'm calling it resource reconciliation as I would like to see it extend beyond a discovery engine, IT asset database, dependency mapping and the necessary...
