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Friday, September 5th, 2008Filipino co-founder of Tivoli Systems dies of cancer
Tivoli Layoffs
Thursday, July 10th, 2008IBM lays off 150 workers, 30 in RTP
The workers were part of IBM Tivoli, a division that offers services such as storage, security and system management.
Boxers or Briefs?
Friday, June 27th, 2008The Evil Genius of BMC (a.k.a. Marty McFly) called out Google yesterday on Twitter regarding their basic systems management principals and bad systems management practices. Not soon after the Evil Genius’ tweet, Heath Newburn from IBM Tivoli posted a quick tweet response. I’ll have to admit sometimes we “enterprise” boys […]
Open Source Monitoring and The Art of War
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 […]
Off Topic - Thoughts on ITM 6.2 FP1
Friday, May 30th, 2008I am just completing an ITM 6.2 workshop today in Germany and we decided to use FP1 for the class exercises. I love doing this kind of training because I can get the students to try out a lot of the new features that I don’t have time to get to. Here are some initial […]
IT Management Podcast #11 - Tivoli Training and Zenoss
Monday, May 19th, 2008As always lots-o-fun getting the 11th podcast done. For more details see Cote’s write up.
IT Management Podcast #11 - Tivoli Training, Zenoss in Austin, System Center
Podcast here…
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Intelligium Managed Services
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008document.write(’‘);
Read this doc on Scribd: Intelligium - Tivoli Manged Services
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Chicago Tivoli User’s Group Meeting This Week
Saturday, March 29th, 2008If you are in Chi-town this week, ping me. I will be attending the TUG all day Wednesday and Thursday (I promise no fireworks on Thursday). I am also presenting an ITM 6.2 Agent Builder class on Friday.
For more information see …
Tivoli North Central User Group
Is IBM’s Blue Cloud a Cloud?
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Last year IBM announced their Blue Cloud. Since then a few of their Blue Clouds have showed up around the world. A few months ago IBM announced a Blue Cloud in Wuxi China and today they announced another one in Dublin. The question is, are these really clouds or just steroid […]
A Distributed Control Dispatching Framework (CTL) from ControlTier
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008I usually say that Tarus of OpenNMS is the hardest working man in open source, but ControlTier, with its new open source CTL offering, would make the original godfather quite proud. I first met the ControlTier guys at BarcampESM. They had come to BarcamESM to ask a very simple question, a question […]
DevCampTivoli Updates
Friday, March 14th, 2008Robert Barron on IBM Israel has some really cool ideas for DevCampTivoli. Unfortunitly he will not be able to attend. However we have a couple of request for remote participation. We are going to setup an IRC channel and a Twitter feed prior to the Devcamp so that remote users can […]
Enterprise Beware!
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008There was an interesting article yesterday in SearchDataCenter.com about how Motorola is using Splunk to troubleshoot IT management problems. Enterprise Search technologies are being used more and more by large customers to apply Google-like search technology to traditional data center analytics. Companies like Coke and Comcast are using Enterprise Search technologies to […]
IMO NMS is not Lost
Thursday, March 6th, 2008While catching up on my Google reader this morning I stuck one foot in the muck (yuk yuk). Coté sure knows how to get this internet moving. :) He sent Tarus this blog post the other day and Tarus responded with this post. Here are my thoughts…
Not exactly sure what is lost?Â
Micromuse products are going […]
DevCampTivoli Game On
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008Break out the hockey sticks its game on for DevCampTivoli. The problem we are going to try and solve is - how to get proper business information from the resource into the service management dashboard.
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