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Thursday, June 19th, 2008I get this question a lot when I visit a Tivoli customer…
We are thinking of looking at that Open Source vendor you are always talking about for some of our servers.
Then I ask them which one and they say jeez I can’t remember the name. Then I rattle off a few of the […]
The Mighty Two - Zenoss
Monday, April 21st, 2008And then their were two…
With Qlusters gone and IMHO, Groundwork feeding off the bottom there are only two commercially viable open source enterprise systems management (ESM) monitoring tools left on the market. Back in Feburary I did a post about Hyperic and now I wanted to get up to speed on the other - […]
IT Management Podcast #10 - Tivoli and the Little 3
Friday, April 18th, 2008We finally made it to podcast #10. A lot of Tivoli talk on this one however we did talk a little about my best friends on the west coats Groundworks. It all about revue baby revenue. I hope you enjoy.
IT Management Podcast #10 - Tivoli and the Little 3
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Cloud Computing Vendors A to Z
Thursday, March 20th, 2008I HAVE A REVISED VERSION OF THIS POST…
Cloud Vendors A to Z (Revised)
Groundwork Man Up #2
Friday, March 14th, 2008Come on guys don’t make me have to go 40rag on your ass.
See also Man Up #1
GroundWork - Man Up
Monday, March 10th, 2008I heard this weekend that Groundwork is afraid of me. Wasup with that? Guys, I am a 48-year-old nobody who is still looking to score my first backyard built-in swimming pool. No series “D” funding here. Come on guys, if you don’t like what I am saying, let’s debate it. […]
Why Are You Here?
Monday, February 11th, 2008In 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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“Adventures” in Open Source
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Tarus is shaking things up a little bit on his blog:
Show Me Da Money (a Cautionary Tale)
Why All the Hate?
451 Are you a Redmonk or a Gartner?
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008A lot of people I have met over the last year keep telling me that the 451 group is one of the good guys. I have always enjoyed Matthew Aslett’s posts. I am very suspicious, however, when I notice that, for certain companies, I hear only the good and never the bad. Here […]
Groundwork the Mystery Continues
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008I noticed in one of Tarus’ latest blogs that he mentioned that Ranga Rangachari, the ex CEO of Groundwork, is no longer listed on the Groundwork management team. In fact, I looked at Groundwork’s management team page, and it looks like Dave Lilly (one of the founders) is back at the helm. I […]
GroundWork Monitor Professional 5.1 wins Gold in SearchEnterpriseLinux.com’s “Products of the Yearâ€
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008This is the same outfit that gave CA the Gold for its CMDB. Talk about a club that I wouldn’t want to be in. For more thoughts on this, see CA best CMDB of 2007
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You should let me wet my beak a little.
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Don Fanucci: Young man, I hear you and your friends are stealing goods. But you don’t even send a dress to my house. No respect! You know I’ve got three daughters. This is my neighborhood. You and your friends should show me some respect. You should let me wet my beak a little.
The other day, […]
Zabbix Finds a Home in USA
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Zabbix is an interesting open source monitoring product that is primarily developed in Latvia.
About two years ago, I had a venture called OpenESM where we were trying to partner with Zabbix, but, quite frankly, I could not understand a word they said and felt in the end that we were going to have communication/support issues. […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Thursday, November 15th, 2007Sergio Leone couldn’t have scripted this one any better.
Nagios Enterprises and GroundWork Open Source Forge Strategic Partnership
Wow #1
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I have been linked from O’Reilly Radar. Cool…
Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!)
This is a really good article about how to do a WEB 2.0 startup “The WEB 2.0 Way” (i.e., the Secret Sauce).
Here is my comment…
There are some really interesting companies working around S3/EC2. Now you add a little […]
The World is on Crack #4
Friday, October 19th, 2007So, I am brought in by a “Big Four” to help close a deal for an OS monitoring and services gig. Then, at the end of the meeting the customer starts to rant about how he has already spent a half-million dollars on a network management tool that doesn’t work. Furthermore, he says that […]
GroundWork Open Source Selected by …
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007GroundWork Open Source Selected by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software. There is a big difference between Group 1 Software, a small company based in Maryland, and the mother-ship Pitney Bowes in Connecticut. This is, however, a step in the right direction.
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They Might be Giants
Friday, September 21st, 2007Did you ever see the move They Might be Giants with George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward? It is a great movie.
ITNMIPEE for the SMB
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007“IBM Tivoli Network Manager Entry IP Edition 3.7†- ITNMIPEE (Now that’s an acronym).
On 9/11/2007, IBM announced an entry (SMB) version of its recently announced enterprise product IBM Tivoli Network Managed IP Edition (ITNMIPE). ITNMIPE is the enterprise replacement product, formally Precision from MicroMuse, for the old IBM Netview product. […]
Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus
Saturday, September 15th, 2007“`There are going to be times,’ says Kesey, `when we can’t wait for somebody. Now you’re either on the bus or off the bus. If you’re on the bus, and you get left behind, then you’ll find it again. If you’re off the bus in the first place–then it won’t make a damn.’ And nobody […]
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