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EMCWorld and Interop Las Vegas 2103 Going Soft(ware)

During the week of May 5th, EMC held its fast-growing user conference in Las Vegas, while just down the strip the Interop 2013 event was also underway. Lacking an ability to clone myself, I did my best to attend both, in the process actively supporting the local contingent of taxi drivers and putting in more than a few miles of walking (not sure my shoes will ever be the same). In short, both events were heavily focused on programmability of network and storage – two of the three “legs” of the IT infrastructure stool, the last being servers. The big ...

Dell’s Clean Slate Approach to Enterprise IT

Breaking News: Dell Acquires Enstratius to Further Complete Its Cloud Story Today, on May 6, 2013, Dell acquired Enstratius, a company aimed at deploying, automating and managing applications in complex hybrid cloud environments. Enstratius enforces governance and security in the cloud, offering automated scaling, disaster recovery and cloud bursting. The Enstratius solution supports all popular public and private cloud offerings such as VMware vCloud, Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, HP Cloud Services, Google Compute Engine, OpenStack and CloudStack. Enstratius enables developers and operations staff to keep using their monitoring, configuration management – e.g. Opscode Chef and Puppet- and other operations ...

Network Management Goes BIG at CAWorld 2013

This year’s theme for CAWorld 2013 was “Go Big: IT with Impact.” So I thought what the heck – let’s go big. I stepped back and took a much broader look across the CA Technologies portfolio than I normally would. Usually, I focus on the network management solutions, which live primarily within CA’s Service Assurance group, and almost all under the heading of Infrastructure Management. That’s where Spectrum lives, along with Performance Center, which is a latest-generation update to eHealth and ReporterAnalyzer. Nimsoft was recently added to this list as well. But as I was to find out, that is ...

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When Breaches Affect a Lot More than the Victim: How Much Security Is Enough?

posted by Scott Crawford | February 3, 2012 | 0 Comments

Another report of a breach at a technology vendor much of the industry depends upon for security and trust; this time, Verisign. The most immediate concern about this incident was that the attacks in question occurred in 2010, and were not widely known until Reuters discovered the disclosure in the company’s reporting as required to...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford

Security and Big Data: Two Sore Points and Seven Questions

posted by Scott Crawford | February 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

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There’s no question that the intersections of Big Data and security have grabbed a lot of attention in the year-plus since I’ve been blogging on this topic. Indeed, it seems that Big Data will be one of the major focus areas at the RSA Conference a month hence: I count at least three sessions and...

Posted in Application Management, IT Management, Scott Crawford Tags: bigdata, Information security

Get the data once! An unappreciated CMDB value proposition

posted by | February 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

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So, I’ve implemented a couple CMDBs. One even before I’d heard of ITIL. We called it a metadata repository, but it was essentially a CMDB. Making the business case for such systems is never easy. ITIL and the various CMDB authors provide a number of what I call “motherhood and apple pie” justifications: Reduce downtime...

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management Tags: CMDB, CMDB justification, ITIL

Virtualizing the Edge

posted by Tracy Corbo | February 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

There is no question WAN optimization technology was a game changer. It took away a major pain point for the most popular and common protocols that suffered noticeable performance degradation over WAN connections. While the technology has been very successful in optimizing specific traffic types, there are others that have remained underserved, most notable are...

Posted in IT Management, Network Management, Tracy Corbo Tags: Riverbed Technology, WAN optimization, Wide area network

Adaptive Case Management and IT process

posted by | January 31, 2012 | 0 Comments

I’ve been reading Mastering the Unpredictable: How Adaptive Case Management will Revolutionize the Way That Knowledge Workers Get Things Done. This interesting book brings several current topics together, including complexity theory, business process management (BPM), and the evolving practices around knowledge work. Adaptive Case Management (ACM) argues that in knowledge work, processes need to be...

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management Tags: Adaptive Case Management, BPM, Incident Management, IT process management, Service management

Blurring the Lines Across Traditional Boundaries: Top IT & Data Management Trends of 2012

posted by Dennis Drogseth | January 27, 2012 | 0 Comments

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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,...

Posted in Dennis Drogseth, IT Management Tags: Business Intelligence, mobile, trends

The CMDB is not a data warehouse

posted by | January 26, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Managing IT data is maddening. IT organizations are hamstrung right and left by lack of complete and high quality information, yet approaches to resolve this have been only partially successful – at best! One approach that has had less attention is the idea of a data warehouse for IT data. As big data and analytics get...

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management Tags: Bill Inmon, Configuration management database, Datawarehouse, ODS, Service Desk, ServiceNow

On Deck for 2012: Data-Driven Security, and the Synergies of Security and IT Management

posted by Scott Crawford | January 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Happy (belated) New Year! (Well, maybe not so happy if you buy shoes online or are having second thoughts about source code escrow.) Like many, I’ve been contemplating my expectations for 2012. But rather than just play armchair quarterback (a popular pastime among NFL fans here in Denver of late), I thought it would be more useful...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford Tags: Data-Driven Security, EMA Research, Security and IT Management

MicroStrategy World 2012: Miami

posted by Shawn Rogers | January 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

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Yesterday I tweeted “Most software CEO’s are technologists at some level. Saylor is a passionate nerd. It’s a compliment.” I’ve covered MicroStrategy for years and have attended many of CEO Michael Saylor‘s keynotes and the reoccurring theme is his deep understanding of emerging technologies and how they will disrupt the business intelligence space. He has...

Posted in Business Intelligence, Shawn Rogers Tags: Big data, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, Facebook, Michael Saylor, Microstrategy

EMA APM Radar Part 2: “Cloud-readiness” and Application Performance Management (APM) vendors

posted by Julie Craig | January 25, 2012 | 0 Comments

Cloud adoption is challenging traditional application management models and the APM solutions that support them. Private Cloud drives new requirements for depth of visibility to virtual environments and to dynamic change. Public Cloud presents unique management challenges since APM solutions engineered for visibility to on-premise-hosted apps often lack visibility to public Cloud environments. Hybrid cloud...

Posted in IT Management, Julie Craig