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EMCWorld and Interop Las Vegas 2013 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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Security: A Big Data Problem?

posted by Scott Crawford | October 20, 2011 | 0 Comments

Last week, I had the opportunity to spend a few days with a truly interesting and diverse group of practitioners, who I think are on to the future of information security. It will come as no surprise to anyone who follows this blog that I believe that future is centered on the ability to do...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford Tags: bigdata, Data-Driven Security, trends

Viva la Mobile Revolution!

posted by Steve Brasen | October 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Put this picture in your mind’s eye – It’s a beautiful sunny weekday and you’re sitting by a pool catching the sun’s rays and a cool breeze. Strategically placed within arm’s reach beside you is some kind of fruity drink with a tiny bamboo umbrella in it. You are working (yep, I said working!). You...

Posted in Cloud Computing, IT Management, Steve Brasen, Systems Management Tags: Android, iOS, IPad, IPhone, Mobile device

Oracle Continues MA Activities with Endeca

posted by John Myers | October 19, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Yesterday, Oracle announced their intent to purchase Endeca, a vendor of unstructured data management and web commerce solutions. The purchase aligns well with Oracles recent announcements relating to unstructured data integration. Specifically, the press release states: “combination of Oracle and Endeca is expected to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search and analyze structured...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Customer experience, Endeca, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Oracle

IT Asset Management: the IAITAM conference

posted by | October 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Spent last Tues-Fri in Las Vegas at the Aria, at the annual IAITAM (International Association of IT Asset Managers) conference. It was a good show. There was some buzz at the opening keynote about a major announcement, which turned out to be the establishing of a program for IT Asset Management via Taft University. (I...

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management Tags: IAITAM, IT asset management, IT service management

Discussing SAM with Steve Klos of Tagvault.org

posted by | October 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

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At the recent IAITAM conference, I spent some time with Steve Klos of Tagvault.org. Steve has been working on and advocating for software tagging standards, doing the long march through the ISO standards processes. He’s passionate on the topic of software asset management and how standardized software tagging is essential to improving the current state...

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management Tags: asset management, ICANN, IT asset management

Begin with End in Mind for Big-Data Analytics

posted by John Myers | October 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

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Many times when discussing the topic of big-data, the focus is on the volume of the data, the structure of the data or the near real-time analysis requirements of the data. We toss around buzzwords like Hadoop, structured vs unstructured, etc…. However, often times what is missed are the analysis goals of the big-data environment....

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Analytics, Big data, Data Warehousing, Peppers and Rogers

Bom Dia! Views from 5430ft

posted by John Myers | October 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

It is fantastic to part of the Enterprise Management Associates team and with that comes the opportunity to share insights and opinions via blog on the topics of: Business intelligence Data Warehousing Big Data Analytics Data integration In this world of “Crossfire” intellectual engagement (ie i yell louder therefore i win the argument), I will offer my opinion(s)...

Posted in Business Intelligence, John Myers Tags: Business Intelligence, Data warehouse

This Week in New York: A Real-World Workshop on Big Data and Security Intelligence

posted by Scott Crawford | October 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

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With the acquisitions of Q1Labs and NitroSecurity last week, the industry’s attention has been drawn anew to the value of security information and event management (SIEM). In the enterprise, SIEM is often the focus of security operations, collecting data from a variety of point products, management and monitoring systems. But as I wrote on Tuesday,...

Posted in IT Management, Scott Crawford Tags: Big data, Data-Driven Security, Hadoop, Zettatest, Zions Bancorporation

Simply a Matter of Passion

posted by Scott Crawford | October 6, 2011 | 0 Comments

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We often talk about our world, the world of technology, as the business it is. Money to be made, fortunes won and lost, empires large and small that rise with spectacular swiftness – and often fall just as fast. But what often gets lost in all the chatter about the business of technology is what...

Posted in Scott Crawford Tags: Apple, Steve Jobs

Second edition of Architecture and Patterns for IT

posted by | October 5, 2011 | 0 Comments

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This week marked an event I’ve been anticipating for a long time: the general availability of the revised edition of my book, Architecture and Patterns for IT: Service Management, Portfolio Management, and Governance (Making Shoes for the Cobbler’s Children). (Amazon should go live on Friday, including the $9.99 Kindle version, such a deal – but...

Posted in Charles Betz, IT Management Tags: Enterprise architecture, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, ITIL, Project Management, Service management