Application Mapping in 2008 and Beyond
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 6:20AM Current State
Application mapping technologies have continued to mature throughout 2008. Due to the economic issues facing businesses around the world, most vendors in this space have spent 2008 shoring up their current offerings and improving upon features already found in the product. As the economic environment begins to improve over the next 12 - 24 months, vendors will start to add additional functionality into their mapping solutions. These innovative features will include better visibility into virtual server environments, management of high capacity computing environments such as grid computing environments. SOA will start to become a prominent technology that will be implemented in many of the Fortune 500, so firms will require mapping technology in order to have a better understanding of what components are running in their SOA environment and what the interdependencies of the components are.
The major players in this space continue to be IBM with their Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), EMC with their Smarts with their Application Discovery Manager, HP with the Application Mapping component built into their Business Availability Center solution, and Tideway Systems with their Tideway Foundation.
Reader Comments (3)
This is a very insightful post. I would like to talk to you some more about your experiences with these technologies if you are interested.
I have started to get interested in Application Mapping. It all started in early 2008 I became involved in a business that used IBM's application mapping software. I was forced to use it, but had no idea what I was doing. Now after much research, I have become interested in the industry and enjoy visiting blogs that deal with application mapping. You have put out a lot of great information on this post. Stuff that helps me and many other people as well. I think that 2009 will be a breakout year for many application mappers and look forward to seeing what lies ahead. Again, thanks for a great post.
VMWare:
Thanks for stopping by and reading the post. I have enjoyed blogging about my experiences with this technology. Spread the word, as I would like to hear from others as well.
Cheers!