novell today announced a definitive agreement to acquire the business service management leader managed objects. the acquisition will extend novells portfolio of data center solutions by adding tools to provide a unified view of all information and workloads. the acquisition of managed objects by novell illustrates novells commitment to an expanded management strategy and makes them a strong compe...
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novell has agreed to buy managed objects a mclean va. maker of bsm business service management software. terms of the deal announced tuesday were not disclosed.bsm software helps companies map the performance of their it systems against daytoday business processes. the bsm market has become dominated by a handful of large players ibm hewlettpackard ca and bmc but is also populated by a range of ...
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sometimes ingenuity leads to alternative uses of new products in ways the original designer never imagined. the classic business school example is 3ms postit note which was originally conceived as pressure sensitive adhesive a novel idea with few practical uses until someone slapped the adhesive on a piece of paper and found utility in a reusable bookmark.a many customers use managed objects...
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you might remember managed objects mycmdb announcement from a little while ago. in my view mycmdb is trying to provide a layer ontop of cmdbs managed objects own bmcs and custom that pulls features from the consumer web 2.0 world. as you go through the overview and then demo you can pull out that the main idea with mycmdb is to get people using the cmdb more. there are other things of course like ...
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download the episode directly right here or subscribe to the feed in itunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatica lly. th is week john and i return to our laxidasical agenda covering a disparate range of topics i start out asking john about the it skeptics recent book and new website since john mentioned it to me the other day. the mycmdb screencast i recorded th...
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when i saw the yammer present and subsequently win at techcrunch 50 earlier this month i immediately signed up managed objects and sent out invites to the people i communicate with most including the rest of our management team. whats a yammer and why was i all over it if you use twitter or other microblogging services user skip the rest of this paragraph the short version is that its a communi...
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we had a great week at the itsmf fusion 2008 show in san francisco this past week certainly time well spent. we had some really insightful conversations with current and prospective customers engaged a handful of analysts scoped out the competition and sat in on a handful of very interesting sessions which unveiled some rather unique data points. for example in one session on cmdbs in excess of...
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i get to have some very interesting and varied discussions with people interested in bsm. they generally start off with a high level strategic goal for their it organization and go from there. a common theme thats emerged in a large percentage of them lately is the topic of application performance management apm and its relationship with bsm. more specifically ive been spending a lot of time ta...
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i made fun of managed objects new socialnetworking influenced cmdb interface product mycmdb when it was announced last month critiquing both the kindergarten playground name of the software and the fact that something as prosaic as a configuration management database product was jumping on the seemingly ubiquitous social networking bandwagon in the wake of successes such as myspace facebook and li...
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sometimes people learn to live with pain. the pain may be real enduring and chronic but people choose to ignore the pain which isnt the same thing as making it go away. i was speaking with a prospect recently about our bsm solution and though after listening carefully to our presentation this persons first reaction was we just dont have the pain to drive this sort of initiative. however as co...
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daily updates keep rolling in and all indicate that our early evaluation program eep for mycmdb continues to progress nicely. we have been contacted numerous times by both customers and internal employees with feature suggestions questions and bug reports. a handful of folks with whom we have never spoken with previously have even sent inbound requests to give the software a try. in many ways ...
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specific numbers portraying cmdb adoption rates may vary from report to report but they all seem to indicate that implementations are on the rise. for example a recent poll at gartners iom conference found that 33 of respondents are currently implementing a cmdb another 19 plan to do so in the next six months while another 12 percent will do so within a year. a separate study summarized ...
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the rsvps for tomorrows twin tech party at local 16 has blown the capacity limits at 610. the organizers are shunting 70 people from the waiting list to nearby chi chi lounge. the sample list of attendees below shows good representation from the tech media and politics sectors. sarah lacy who famously interviewed mark zuckerberg at sxsw will be in attendance to launch her user generated book to...
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download the episode directly right here or subscribe to the feed in itunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically. in this episode john and i start out talking about training for it departments. we then get into a discussion of managed objects mycmdb for which james governor and i had a briefing earlier this week. the first question people have been asking me john includ...
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abbas haider ali has recently joined the managed objects team as their new vp of product strategy. weve been communicating over the past few months and while he doesnt bring direct bsm experience his vision for shaping and guiding managed objects is likely to bring a fresh perspective to a well established company and to the overall bsm marketplace. ive been after some technical practitioners at...
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were thrilled to see the buzz gathering around our newest announcement analysts and media alike seem to agree that weve added something new and noteworthy to the market. we think this kind of innovation is especially welcome in a market that has little confidence in those larger competitors. with mycmdb weve really unleashed the power of the cmdb by adding the community features that should log...
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techsmart emite analytics anyone heard of these guys tags techsmart emiteanalytics dashboards analytics automation integration monitoring ibms entuity cornerstone solution manages risk and improves quality of service ibm uses eye of the storm as their core network management solution along with other strategic partners to quickly deliver a range of managed network solutions from ip convergence...
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managed objects announced mycmdb today with the aim of further breaking down of the barriers to cmdb use and adoption within the typical it organization. this innovative approach to easing the rough edges and increasing the transparency of a typical cmdb deployment looks like a great step forward to ensuring a successful cmdb deployment that provides value. with initial details introduced here in...
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recently edward lorenz who popularized the concept of the butterfly effect passed away. the butterfly effect according one article is when small differences in a dynamic system like the weather could trigger vast and often unsuspected results. in other words lorenz theorized a mere flap of a butterflys wings while generally insignificant could given the right set of conditions cause a subtle chang...
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weeks after the announced acquisition much of the coverage and analysis surrounding the proposed hp and eds deal still focuses almost exclusively on the effect this transaction will have on the respective companies. what missing is the impact this will have on their customers. as the economist wrote culture aside edss big selling point is to be the largest services firm that is independent of any ...
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for contemporary computer usage the saas model has many attractive advantages that account for its growing popularity. for instance saas avoids the initial up front cost of purchasing software and the associated hardware the ongoing maintenance and salary costs for employees to maintain a new systems are all avoided. at the expense of it as competitive differentiation these cost advantages are c...
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firescopes countdown excitement was revealed today a little bit late and their next steps in business service management innovation are now visible. it appears that there will be a 28 day launch cycle of numerous new products and tools. firescopes business edition be concept consists of a couple key components aimed as initial entry points for smaller enterprises. the fuller featured enterprise...
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in many ways technologists are fighting for the same ideals just on different levels. the single source of truth is one of those ideals and i find it fascinating to know that other members of the it community are tacking a similar problem in parallel. consider the following erp ceos look to enterprise resource planning software to provide a single version of the truth with regard to a companys ...
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does process matter in the case of bsm both technology and process are inextricably linked. on one hand bsm technology brings together integration modeling automation and analytics so it operations have the necessary tools to quickly associate it component failures with relative business services. without technology root cause and impact analysis must be manually discerned which for at least one ...
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its not surprising to us that analyst firm forrester has predicted that companies will spend nearly 5 billion on web 2.0 technologies blogs wikis podcasts etc over the next five years. social networking has become the next generation of knowledge management but it is one where user adoption is driven by the end user think wikipedia. social networking has dramatically changed the media landscap...
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