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Lean IT
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008Maybe I have been asking the wrong questions. Instead of asking how will a CMDB work with commodity like infrastructures, (e.g., clouds), maybe the real question should be how do we adapt to get what we really need?
Rob England (The IT Skeptic) has an interesting article on ITSM Watch called “On Demand Data [...]
Novell and Managed Objects: Vision, Convenience, Need or ?
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Novell and Managed Objects: Vision, Convenience, Need or ?
Doug McClure
IT Skeptic Calls Out BMC!
Friday, August 1st, 2008Crap Factoid Alert: CMDB savings of more than $1 million per year
This is a CATEGORY 1 Crap Factoid alert from Chokey the Chimp at the IT Skeptic’s Crap Factoid Warning Service. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Be on EXTREME danger alert for CF “CMDB savings of more than $1 million per year”. BMC [...]
Burning questions: myCMDB
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Guest SME Author Abbas Haider Ali – Burning questions: myCMDB
I wish I would have read this before we recorded the IT Management Guys podcast #15 today. Coté and I talked about ManagedObjects myCMDB on this soon to be posted IT Management Guys Podcast #15.
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Vendor Beware … Never Piss-off the ITIL Gods
Thursday, June 26th, 2008Managed 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?
CA best CMDB of 2007
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008To quote Napoleon Dynamite:
You Idiot, Gosh!
Mission Impossible
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007The 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, 2007Great post by Cote’ about CMDB.
An Open Source CMDB
Infrastructure 2.0
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Last 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, 2007Coincidentally, 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, 2007Top 10 reasons NOT to implement CMDB
To CMDB or not to CMDB, personally I prefer the former…Â
Back to the Future IV
Friday, July 27th, 2007Yep, 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 [...]
OSCON 2007 – Sessions I plan on attending …
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Wednesday:
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, 2007Big 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, 2007Here are some posts and the questions I posted…
ITIL Worship Â
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, 2007Sorry 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, 2007Â Â Â Â Â
When is a CMDB not a CMDB? — TalkBMC
Let me guess … When you don’t have discovery …
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Eclipse releases annual open source project – vnunet.com
Europa
Netstat on Steriods!
Thursday, June 28th, 2007I 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, 2007Everyone’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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