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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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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 […]

My Top 17 Favorite Posts of 2007

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

The first question is, “If you are the only person who laughs at your joke is it still funny?” If your answer is “No,” then I strongly advise you not to read this blog entry.

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An Open Source CMDB

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

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

Does ITIL Really Matter - The Debate on the Tivoli Mailing List

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

I actually posted this question a few weeks ago on the Tivoli mailing list. Here is a clip of some of the responses from that thread.

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… 

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 […]

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 […]

Good Artical About ITIL

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

The only bad part is they forgot to mention TADDM. 
 http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=54013