Links List 6.13.08

June 13th, 2008 by Julia Lim

Nothing to do with monitoring, but completely funny. I have not been following the Broadcom ex-CEO Henry Nicholas’ exploits, and now I think I should have been. Not only did this bad boy add a fictional $2.2 billion worth of revenue to his company’s bottom line, a second indictment also charges him with a slew of stuff including “spiking customer and employee drinks with ecstasy and other drug-related charges”. The best one: during a trip to Vegas on his private plane, Nicholas and others smoked so much pot that the pilot had to put on an oxygen mask.

Sevcik and Wetzel have a consistently interesting column on Application Performance Management at NetworkWorld. This week, they unveiled the results of a benchmarking survey that tells them mid-sized enterprises have it harder when it comes to deploying such solutions.

We agree; it’s why we exist. Mid-sized enterprises have the same IT problems but not nearly the same amount of resources as the really big guys to throw against solving them.

VMWare’s acquisition of B-hive continues to generate buzz for performance management and virtualization. I love this quote from the CEO of Aternity, “The next big frontier is the ability to transform huge amounts of data into actionable business intelligence that correlates across platforms.” Um, we’re already doing this. What would be the purpose of collecting hundreds of millions of data points if you couldn’t actually present the data in a meaningful way? Maybe his comment was taken out of context and it’s more about the fact that it’s often difficult to get consistent and accurate info on virtualization resource utilization stats in particular. That we totally agree with. Another take on the B-hive acquisition: VMTN blog gives a quick overview of what it means for infrastructure groups and virtual environments.

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June 13th, 2008