Links List 3.28.08

March 28th, 2008 by Julia Lim

Chuck Hollis at EMC takes a look at the future of IT in his post comparing the benefits of big and small enterprises.

The virtual implementation of HA using VMware and Microsoft’s Cluster Server are compared on IT 2.0. Application monitoring appears to work with VMware and not with Microsoft.

If you have a 10gb network, you may want to check out this post by Network Observations which highlights a report on real-time analyzers handling increasing network speeds. According to the article, the challenges outlined include the facts that software-only analyzers are no longer an option and the amount of information analyzed could increase 10-fold leaving the engineer swamped in analysis, making it more difficult to identify the cause of performance problems.

Daily Life in an Ivory Basement discusses the “testing death spiral”, which basically consists of: Write a bunch of code & manually test it (good so far), start adding features over here, Watch code break over there, Rinse, lather, repeat! The scenario is thoroughly analyzed for a (hopefully) happy solution.

Network monitoring challenges are reviewed at the Open Management Consortium which reveals that “network monitoring is far from being a commodity and on the contrary needs innovation to cope with the increasing complexity.”

Performance management vendors are lined up by Sevick and Wetzel on their Network World blog. Check out the differences between IPM and APM vendors.

One of our favorite ZDNet bloggers is leaving, we wish him the best!

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