
User Experience Management (UEM) continues to capture interest in the marketplace. And yet it remains somewhat elusive. So, what is User Experience Management really? It’s gone by many other names in the past, such as Quality of Experience (QoE), and has other incarnations in the present such as Real User Management (RUM). Older, typically network-centric [...]
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Posted in UEM, Uncategorized Tags: cloud computing, Customer experience, Quality of Experience, User experience
See Dennis’ recent article on User Experience Management (UEM), posted at APM Digest, here: http://www.apmdigest.com/the-many-dimensions-of-user-experience-management-uem
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Posted in UEM, Uncategorized Tags: UEM
On the one hand, many in the industry have begun todismiss the CMDB as well past its prime, at least in terms of industry hype and attention. For this rather significant population, the CMDB has evolved into a complex and demanding data store with tangible but difficult-to-justify benefits, with questionable relationships to cloud computing and [...]
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Posted in CMS, Uncategorized Tags: CMDB, CMS

At the beginning of this month, EMA analysts were asked for their predictions about what 2012 might bring. Responses spanned management solutions across applications, systems, network, security, services, assets, desktops, and mobile devices, as well as business intelligence and content management. The results were surprisingly cohesive, and as a whole reflected core requirements in analytics, [...]
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Posted in IT Megatrends Tags: Big data, cloud computing, Enterprise Content Management, Hadoop, Mobile, Trends, Workload Automation
See Dennis’ recent article on APM and BSM, posted at APM Digest, here: http://www.apmdigest.com/apm-and-bsm-evolution-confusion-and-business-ownership
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The industry seems to be nearing an inflection point in its attitudes towards cloud computing—as best I can tell from headlines, commentaries and ongoing dialog with IT deployments and vendors. If I had to put a few simple words around it, the era of “mythic hype” surrounding cloud is nearing its end and diffusing into a much [...]
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Posted in Cloud Computing, Uncategorized Tags: cloud computing, VMware, VMware vSphere
See Dennis’ recent blog post on the state of BSM Analytics, posted at BSM Digest, here: http://www.bsmdigest.com/bsm-analytics-what-are-they-and-why-should-you-care-part-one
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Posted in BSM, Uncategorized Tags: analytics, BSM
See Dennis’ recent blog post on the state of cloud computing, posted at BSM Digest, here: http://www.bsmdigest.com/clouds-iron-fist
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Posted in Uncategorized Tags: cloud computing, IBM, VCloud, VMware, VMware vSphere
Maybe the 21st Century is the Age of Ecosystems. I suppose the largest for now is our planet. Taken abstractly, the term “ecosystem” can apply well beyond natural and manmade interdependencies, to political, religious and business- and organizational-driven ecosystems. And while the concept is a good one, and in some senses a cause for optimism— [...]
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The notion that the CMDB is now entering a “mature” phase
is naïve, and in many respects refuted by the high levels of innovation
attested to here. We are admittedly looking at toddlers learning
to walk, but what a transformation they may bring to the market, and to our
whole view of service management, as they take their first few steps!!
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Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Change management, Configuration management database, service management
