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Data Center Automation Blueprint status
This is a work in progress as always, but here is a first stab at a round four graphic for the Data Center Automation Blueprint DCAB). As always comments are welcome but it’s time to migrate to a wiki...
View Articlelinks for 2008-02-18
Less than 23% of North American VARs sell virtualization another survey on virtualization to chew on (tags: virtualization) Also, I’ve taken my second pass at updating the wiki page for the Data...
View ArticleIT Resource Reconciliation (CMDB) – Top 5 Capabilities
The crew over a Tideway offered up and impressive in-depth product demo last week. It made me realize I haven’t circled back to throw down my top five features for this functional area of the Data...
View ArticleAnalytics; What are the top capabilities?
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 over...
View ArticleTop Enterprise Management Tools vs. Data Center Automation Blueprint
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 specifically focused on the Data...
View ArticleEMC adds Service Desk to Data Center Management portfolio
EMC 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...
View ArticleData Center Automation Blueprint – made a round of updates
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve taken a pass at the Data Center Automation Blueprint, so it was time for some additions and clean-up.First up I added descriptions for some of the categories and made...
View ArticleMapping HP Software to the Data Center Automation Blueprint
I had the chance to recently chat with an executive at HP to breakdown what pieces and parts ended up where post Peregrine, Mercury and Opsware acquisitions. Here is my attempted and mapping them to...
View ArticlePerformance and Availability Management vs. Analytics – Part 1 of ?
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 Innovations,...
View ArticlePerformance and Availability vs. Analytics – Part 5 of 5
Finally, the last installment of this 5 part series (which was originally a ? part series). This last segment took a little more time then expected to get to. These days you can find BSM definitions...
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