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.
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...
January 5, 2008 7:40 PM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
ArcSight,
Configuresoft,
DataCenter,
Ecora,
EMC,
HP Software,
IBM Tivoli,
LogLogic,
nCircle,
NetForensics,
Reconnex,
Skybox Security,
Symantec,
Tripwire,
VericeptThe massive number of security management vendors make simply covering this portion of the DCAB a very intimidating task. So many technology approaches and different data center technology focuses (e.g., networks vs. system vs. applications etc). I've attempted a first pass at sub-dividing this...
December 28, 2007 11:31 PM
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,
ZenOSSFirst 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...
December 27, 2007 6:04 PM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
EMC,
HP Software,
IBM Tivoli,
Security,
Securitychannel,
SymantecI have Security as one of the 6 DCAB Functional Categories. This article does a great job highlighting some key landscape changes in the overall...
December 7, 2007 6:52 PM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BladeLogic,
BMC,
Cassatt,
DataCenter,
HP Software,
IBM Tivoli,
InfoVista,
Microsoft Windows,
Netuitive,
PlateSpin,
Quest Software,
Stratavia,
Symantec,
Veeam,
Virtualization,
VizioncoreI just saw this snippet from the 451 consulting group and WOW! In December 2006 they were covering 6 players in the Virtualization Management arena,...
December 3, 2007 11:41 PM
Posted by: Ryan Shopp
BMC,
CA,
DataCenter,
EMC,
HP Software,
IBM Tivoli,
Integrien,
Microsoft Windows,
Netuitive,
Quest Software,
SymantecAs mentioned in my November 2007 round-up, I haven't given any love to automation products watching for outages, faults or other availability of the infrastructure oriented events.
Part of the reason for this oversight is these days most data centers are locked into a product from the "big 4"...
