Links List 5.30.08

May 30th, 2008 by Julia Lim

We gave a nod to IBM Tivoli for its Big Green initiative in a post last week. Here’s Michael Cote of RedMonk weighing in on the Tivoli’s green announcement. “The impressiveness…is twofold: bringing actual metrics to the question of power consumption and building out an ecosystem of vendors to service reacting to those metrics.” And then my favorite line “Much green-in-the-data-center talk often comes off as fluffery that can’t be executed.”

Charlie Babcock at Information Week reported that VMWare just acquired an application performance management company. What is it with VMware and the little companies they purchase? Actually, comments like that aside, I think this is a very interesting acquisition. Clearly moving in the right direction to take advantage of virtualization features to help optimize app performance/availability and maybe even automate remediation based on the info coming out of B-Hive and policies set up in VI3. We’ll see.

A new series called “OpsMgr Answer This” began this week on Windows’ Operation Manager blog. The first question asked, “Why should one go to Operations Manager 2007? You may be using MOM 2005 and be perfectly happy with it. There is an adage: "if it works, don’t break it" - so why go to Operations Manager 2007?” Kerrie Meyler answered with this, “The biggest change in OpsMgr 2007 versus MOM 2005 is in its approach to monitoring. OpsMgr incorporates end-to-end monitoring - not just server monitoring with MOM 2005… but the health of applications (including identified components across the network) and services. Which would you prefer to know?” We already know our answer.

Virtualization implementation needs more strategy behind it, says Michael Vizard of eWeek’s Masked Intentions. “Instead of thinking of virtualization as glorified system software, IT organizations need to take a more holistic approach to virtualization.” We couldn’t agree more – in fact, we talk about virtualization as a technology strategy in and of itself. A successful virtualization strategy combines people and process changes with the right tools for a company’s unique computing environment and goals.

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May 30th, 2008