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Thursday, May 29th, 2008One 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, 2008OAK 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, 2008IBM Tivoli Pulse Wrap-up - Product Updates, Green Metrics, and Cloud Confusion
Move Over Henry … Says Al
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008In 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, 2008If 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, 2008Catching 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, 2008Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe
Microsoft - CIM Lives
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008I 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, 2008IBM 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, 2008Worst. 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, 2008I 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, 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
Tivoli’rs Meet Coté
Thursday, April 17th, 2008He 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”
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Top 10 Why Tivoli Will Not Invest The Framework
Thursday, April 17th, 2008There 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, 2008Mark 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, 2008While 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, 2008IBM 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, 2008Is 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, 2008Rumors swirl of Citrix takeover by IBM or Cisco
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