Roundup Article | May 2007 | 0 Comments
Network Management Changing the Course for ‘Framework’ Vendors
Dennis Drogseth discusses what sets BMC, CA, HP, and IBM apart from other network management vendors, including evidence that they are all beginning to leverage enabling technologies that will potentially support everything from a more evolved CMDB system to advanced service performance diagnostics.
Network World, 10/06
Roundup Article | May 2007 | 0 Comments
Heavyweight Rivals Gang Up for Mgmt. Spec But How Much of a Standard Will It Be?
Arch-rivals BEA, BMC, Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Sun team up to develop Service Modeling Language (SML), an XML-based modeling language that provides a consistent way to document the hardware and software resources that make up business […]
Roundup Article | May 2007 | 0 Comments
IBM to Invest $1B in Data Management Services
IBM joins other large corporations, including Wachovia and Panasonic of North America, in acknowledging data management as a top IT issue for improving business processes—announces plan to invest an additional $1 billion in data management.
Computer World, 02/06
Peter Goldin | December 2006 | 1 Comment
Nothing more clearly indicates whether a service is succeeding or failing than the end-user experience—and yet most companies do not have the monitoring technology in place to really know what is happening to their customers online right now.
“When end-user monitoring tools are correctly configured, they provide the most direct indication of the performance of the business service,” says Rich Schofield, Practice Director for Managed Services, Dimension Data North America, a technology integrator that implements monitoring systems.
