On your blog you have a few really good ideas that would benefit the current CAMLET and UtilityStatus products with bsm features. I agree it’s a logical next step for event management and application management to add additional BSM features i.e. application resource discovery, applicaiton maps and identify/creating infrastructure maps. Also tools such as network auto discovery will help manage applications better. A lot of the BSM benefits mentioned here really help to align IT resources to business objectives.

Thanks for the pointer to your blog and articles. I am sure to stop by more often.

JM

I’d like to recommend a couple posts for you and get your feedback. Maybe you can be the first to incorporate some of these thoughts into your product.

http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2008/08/bsm-in-the-clouds/

Not directly related, but you mentioned SOA in one of your pages.

http://dougmcclure.net/blog/2008/08/the-state-of-soa-monitoring-and-management/

Catch me over at my blog anytime!

Doug
BSM/ITSM Blog: http://dougmcclure.net

Here’s a link to the redbook http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/SG246764.html

Just my 2cents to help improve cloud applications.

JM
Monitoring-as-a-Service(TM)
http://www.camsolutionsinc.com

I noticed there is a need in the cloud to provide deep-dive monitoring and diagnostics for EC2 and other cloud based applications and utilities.

You can find access to cloud enterprise application monitoring here
http://www.utilitystatus.com. This tool provides actual diagnostics for your applications located in the cloud.

CAM Solutions mission is to provide Monitoring-as-a-Service(TM) to Production/ QA and Developers in the Cloud on an as needed basis with focus to minimize the cost of ownership. Basically, only pay for what you use and still get the deep-dive application monitoring functionality.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

JM
Monitoring-as-a-Service(TM)
http://www.camsolutionsinc.com

Just my 2 cents.