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February 27, 2009  4:07 AM

AlterPoint: The End of An Era



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BladeLogic, BMC, CA, EMC, HP Software, IBM Tivoli, NCCM, SolarWinds

Well 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...

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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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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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October 31, 2007  8:12 PM

Activities in Application, System & Network Performance Monitoring



Posted by: Ryan Shopp
Accellent, Application monitoring, BMC, CA, DataCenter, EMC, HP Software, IBM Tivoli, InfoVista, Microsoft Windows, Network monitoring, Networking, Performance management, Quest Software, SolarWinds, Symantec, Systems monitoring

Big item to post about right out of the gate!  We all are familiar with the "Performance Management" sector within the Data Center.  Quick couple sentence summary.  Software that automates the collection and identification of potential performance bottlenecks within the data center. ...

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