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Tivoli Monitoring for Green Energy

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

One of the first signs of concern of a new ‘Product’ offering is when the only documentation you can find on the product are white papers (w/no screen shots).
Oh well …
Tivoli Monitoring for Green Energy
UPDATE…
Me and my big yap… Heath Newburn spanked me good on this one…

Looks Like Someone Believes in MRO

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

OAK BROOK, Ill., May 27 /PRNewswire/ — Oak Brook-based generationE
Technologies, a leading provider of IT Service Management and Service
Assurance solutions, recently announced a definitive agreement to divest its
BMC Remedy division to TuringSMI Group Limited, as part of its final step in
moving to become an end-to-end IBM Tivoli solution provider.
Looks like generationE is betting the bank […]

Coté Reviews Pulse

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

IBM Tivoli Pulse Wrap-up - Product Updates, Green Metrics, and Cloud Confusion

Move Over Henry … Says Al

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

In his keynote address to more than 4,000 IBM clients, business partners and employees, IBM Tivoli Software General Manager Al Zollar detailed how, much like the assembly line and automation transformed the automobile and telecommunications industries over the past century, IT operations are ripe for industrialization.
IBM Declares New Era for IT Industrialization at Pulse 2008

Google and IBM - Keeping it Real

Monday, May 19th, 2008

If you have been listening lately you would think that IBM and Google have been recently married. However, I would like to ask some simple questions…

How many Mainframes does Google have?
How many copies of AIX are running in those 1 million core Google data centers?
Does Google run Tivoli Provisioning Manager to provision their 1 […]

Catching Up on Cloud: An Interview with IBM

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Catching Up on Cloud: An Interview with IBM

The World is on Crack #5

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

IBM to make Cognos accessible from Blackberry
Need I say more!

Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe

Microsoft - CIM Lives

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

I have always been impressed with Microsoft’s early adoption of CIM (ala. WMI). While everyone else was talking the talk back in the day Microsoft was getting it done with WMI. ESM and performance guys like me were able to make a lot of use out of Microsoft’s WMI implementation specifically with thier […]

The WEB 2.0 Big Five - Yuk!

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

IBM introduces new cloud offerings
In his post on Rough Type titled [“McKinsey surveys the new software landscape”], Nick Carr discusses the growing acceptance in the marketplace for Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS. He summarizes the results of McKinsey’s recent [Enterprise Software Customer Survey 2008]. IBM is already well established as part of the Web 2.0 […]

Worst Vendor or Worst Vending?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Worst. Vending. Company. Ever.
Interesting little tidbits about how Tivoli slowly changed over time after IBM purchased them.  Although I have never worked for IBM I have done a few residencies for Tivoli and I used love the free soda and those Friday beer bashes omthe patio the Arboretum.

IBM and SignPosts…

Monday, April 21st, 2008

I typically have to literally run over a signpost before I actually see it however; with all this talk of IBM trying out the Mac lately and their constant unloading of Leveno I am just wondering if these might be signposts.

IT Management Podcast #10 - Tivoli and the Little 3

Friday, April 18th, 2008

We 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

Tivoli’rs Meet Coté

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

He has lots-o-questions for you guys.  He will be attending Pulse this year as an analyst.  He is a great guy and you should introduce yourself to him if you run nto him.
Outsourcing and Tivoli - File Under “Tea Leaves”

Top 10 Why Tivoli Will Not Invest The Framework

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

There is a recent discussion on the Tivoli mailing list about what IBM/Tivoli is going to do about the old Tivoli Framework product. There have been some suggestions from customers that IBM keep a lighter version of the product and support it. As I close in to about 15 years of working with […]

Mark Hinkle on Open Source Systems Management

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Mark has written a great article for Linux Today summarizing some of the open source activities over the last few weeks.  He gives a little history of the “Little 4″ and he also does a good job summarizing some of the recent Gartner analalysis on Microsoft and open source.
The Little “3″ of Open Source Systems […]

If It’s Wednesday It Must Be Vegas - Another SOA Story

Friday, April 11th, 2008

While cleaning up my Google alerts I noticed some poor soul trying to make sense of IBM’s SOA management stack at Impact in Vegas this week. On Twitter yesterday our good friend and top-notch analysts Coté was asking similar questions. Here is a mashup of some of my comments out in the blogoshpere on […]

The Fastest Chip on Earth

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

IBM pulls some old tricks out of their hat to trump the competition and it’s called “water-cooling systems”. Yes Virginia this is the way the old IRON use to work.
World’s Fastest Chip

Businessweek Cloud Smackdown

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Is like me trying to sing RAP music. Last night Businessweek posted an article about “Clouds”. I know this is not supposed to be a technical publication however there are far too many inaccuracies in this article to be ignored.

Amazon’s EC2 cost is .010 per hour not .020.
IBM, HP, and SUN have not long […]

Rumors swirl of Citrix takeover by IBM or Cisco

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Rumors swirl of Citrix takeover by IBM or Cisco

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