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Vendor Beware … Never Piss-off the ITIL Gods

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Managed Objects has the IT Skeptic all riled up over their new MyCMDB.  I find it’s always best not to use the words ITIL and CMDB in my blog to avoid potential conflicts like this…
MyCMDB? What are they smokin’ over at Managed Objects?

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CA best CMDB of 2007

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

To quote Napoleon Dynamite:
You Idiot, Gosh!

Mission Impossible

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

The IBM ESM Integration Story
Last night, I attended a Tivoli User Group (TUG) meeting in Atlanta. One of the presentations was on IBM’s new Tivoli Service Request Manager product. During the presentation, my mind started to wander, and I wondered  how difficult it must have been for IBM just to get this […]

An Open Source CMDB

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Great post by Cote’ about CMDB.
An Open Source CMDB

Infrastructure 2.0

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Last Sunday, the day after BarCampNashville, I had lunch with Luke Kanies, the owner of Reductive Labs and the author of Puppet. It became a working lunch due to all my questions about his product. I first met Luke at OSCON 2007 during his Puppet session. I hadn’t planned to attend the Puppet session because […]

My Views on OSS ESM (Part 3)

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Coincidentally, I had a conversation yesterday with two of the ten largest banks in the world. Both told me that 2008 looks to be a possible greenfield for some of their ESM initiatives, or, in other words, a do-over. Before I could even ask, they started talking about open source. One of […]

To CMDB or not to CMDB

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

Top 10 reasons NOT to implement CMDB

To CMDB or not to CMDB,  personally I prefer the former… 

Back to the Future IV

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Yep, that old Marty McFly has gotten him self into a fine mess again and yes he has a skateboard.  This time he has got his work cut out for him.  He was sent back in time not to Hill Valley but to Houston Texas to rescue a software company called BMC.  His best friend […]

OSCON 2007 - Sessions I plan on attending …

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Wednesday:

Open Source on the O’Reilly Radar
OpenNMS Case Studies
Network Monitoring with Nagios
Playing by the Rules: Getting Corporate Blessing to Use Open Source Software
Using Puppet to Manage Your Network
BOF Session - Business Collaboration - Rod Beckstrom
Thursday:
State of Lightning Talks
Building an Open Hardware Platform
Dispelling Legal Myths: Things OSS Developers […]

OSCON 2007 BOF Session- ESM OSS Big 4 vs. Little 4

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Big 4 vs. Little 4
I have put togenther an outline for the BOF session and a draft topic template for my  session Thursday, July 26 from 7:30-8:30pm in Room F150. O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 • July 23-27, 2007 • Portland, Oregon.
If anone is intered contributing please fee free to post here or call me at 919 […]

Talking at TalkBMC

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Here are some posts and the questions I posted…
ITIL Worship  
Tom Bishop, CTO
My Comment:
With the advent of all the new vendor specific CMDB’s (IBM, HP, EMC, ManagedObjects, Quest,…) how will customer’s be able to integrate their multi-vendor environments?
 
The Bugatti Principle
William Hurley, Chief Architect, Open Source Strategy
My Comment:
The thing is I keep hearing about […]

John’s ESM BLOG Episode 1:

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Sorry folks… I am going to have a little fun with this one…
 
ADVICE : If you are a EVP CDO you might want to think twice about blogging??
 
 ARNnet - EMC exec targets open source for sustainable innovation
 
You know how sometimes you meet a person and within about five minutes you can size them up […]

Links

Friday, June 29th, 2007

     
When is a CMDB not a CMDB? — TalkBMC
Let me guess … When you don’t have discovery …
   

Eclipse releases annual open source project - vnunet.com
Europa

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Netstat on Steriods!

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

I am purposely trying my hardest not to do deep dives on this blog and save those for my day job.  However, this one deserves a comment.  Some one described the lsof program as a netstat on steroids.  The lsof has no license (see first comment).  I have used it many times as a life […]

Managed Objects is playing the CMDB Game

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Everyone’s gotta have one.  Image a future where a single company has a number of different departmental based CMDB’s from a number of well know vendors (e.g., IBM, BMC, HP, Managed Objects, …).  Sound silly; take a look at your monitoring environment. http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/8173/166/
    

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