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Seven Steps to become a BSM Super Hero

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Seven Steps to become a BSM Super Hero

Why Are You Here?

Monday, February 11th, 2008

In 1987, I took my first crack at starting my own business. At the time, I lived in northern Virginia and had completed my apprenticeship with some local software startups. I was lucky enough to meet an excellent mentor named Ray Padron, who helped me create a business plan and do the VC snake dance.

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Doug is on Fire!

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Help us help you. Check out DevCampTivoli. We are looking for the following help:

We want to round this out with about 25 to 30 developers who are interested in gluing monitoring (plumbing) with business service management (Holy Grail type stuff). Add yourself to the Wiki.
Help us get the word out. We intend […]

Intelligium forms a Strategic Alliance for Tivoli services

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Intelligium forms a Strategic Alliance for Tivoli services
ATLANTA, GA. (February 06, 2008)— John Willis, an IBM Tivoli veteran with over 25 years of experience in the software industry has entered into a long term exclusive partnership with Intelligium, a leader in providing Tivoli and Websphere services globally. As a result of this partnership, John will […]

IT Management Podcast #004 - Cloud-crazy!

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

IT Management Podcast #004 - Cloud-crazy!
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BarcampESM - Monitoring, the good, the bad, and the ugly

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

All I want for the new year is a BSM Profile for ITM 6.x

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Easy enough, Doug.  Ask and you shall receive

DevCamp Tivoli - Collaborative Development of End-to-End BSM Solutions

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Some more information about DevCampTivoli…
DevCamp Tivoli - Collaborative Development of End-to-End BSM Solutions

DevCamp Tivoli IBM Monitoring and BSM Podcast

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

IBM Tivoli Administrators - Monitoring and BSM
Doug McClure and myself are promoting a DevCampTivoli on May 17th 2008 the Saturday before the IBM Tivoli conference. The idea is to invite about 20 to 30 IBM Tivoli monitoring and BSM experts to develop monitoring-to-business-intelligence  solutions based on ITM 6.2 and TBSM 4.1.1. It […]

They Might be Giants

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie.

Uber BSM Guru

Friday, September 21st, 2007

Doug McClure once called me an Uber Tivoli Guru after seeing me present at an Atlanta Tivoli Tug meeting. Since then, we have met for lunch a number of times to talk about our favorite subjects (ESM and BSM). This morning, we met again and talked and talked some more. The only […]