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Digging into the DCAB’s 6 functional areas: Resource Reconciliation

 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...

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Quick Monday Summary of events from late last week/weekend

 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 side of...

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Couple recent notes on CMDB, aka Resource Reconciliation

Another 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! 2007 TechTarget Products of the Year – Data Center...

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Top 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...

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EMC 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...

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BMC makes the big move, buys BladeLogic for $800M

So BMC is the one, not IBM or EMC that decides to piece it all together.  Responding to HP acquiring Opsware (July ’07); BMC, in less then a year, has acquired RealOps (July ’07), Emprisa (Oct ’07) and...

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Performance 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,...

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Mapping HP Software to the Data Center Automation Blueprint – take 2

I recently took a pass at mapping HP Software’s offerings to the Data Center Automation Blueprint after a call I had with a product executive from the Business Service Automation group (majority of the...

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AlterPoint: The End of An Era

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...

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IT Process Orchestration Revisited

I decided it was time to review and make an update to the IT Process Automation, Process Orchestration, Run Book Automation, Data Center Automation, IT Process Integration, or whatever name each...

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