Over the last several years, firms have been attempting to embrace new ways of looking at the systems deployed on their IT platforms and relate those systems to the business functions that they support. That is to say, to answer the question that business leaders constantly ask; What systems in the data center are used [...]
It has become apparent to me, through talking with clients, chatting with IT executives while traveling, as well as reading in the IT press, that CIOs and CTOs within large organizations are going to be challenged to do more with the same in 2010 and beyond. Sure, we say this is the common paradigm in [...]
So I am attending the Gartner Data Center conference in Las Vegas this week. So far, the show has been great. One of the common themes during the show has been APM – Application Performance Management. The conference has an entire track focused on SOA and virtualization strategies for the data center. In addition to [...]
The consolidation in the network and systems management space continues. This morning, BMC announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Tideway Systems, Ltd. based in the United Kingdom. Not much is know about the integration of the two firms and the technology stack, but Tideway did announce they expect transaction to [...]
