Vendor Perspectives
On this page we present a wide variety of content that pertains to vendors, their products, and the
Systems Management industry opinions that we think
reveal something interesting about a product or a vendor's strategy. Most importantly,
we'll evaluate if and how the news benefits our clients. We'll
also evaluate if and how it impacts the vendor's competition.
Baroudi Bloor Group's commentary on Opalis Data Center Integration (October 2005):
Lights Out On
Lights Out Computing is an incisive summary of the integration challenges facing IT managers trying to
reduce costs and increase efficiency by automating their data center processes.
NetIQ's KBSA White Paper (July 2005): NetIQ
Knowledge-Based Service Assurance Solutions White Paper presents NetIQ's argument for the convergence
of security monitoring and traditional Systems Management approaches. KBSA targets critical
ITIL objectives through the coordination of
four "distinct but interrelated assurance-focused disciplines": Operational Integrity, Service Management,
Policy Compliance and Risk Management.
Microsoft DSI White Paper (March 2005): Microsoft Dynamic Systems Initiative
Overview present's Microsoft long-term vision of how DSI will deliver self-managing dynamic systems.
Simply stated, all of Microsoft's future systems and applications will include a complete XML-based
definition, or model, which engineers can leverage to stress-test their applications over dynamic
infrastructure components. It will enable Systems Management products to test realtime observations
against design parameters. This will be a long story to follow
over the coming years.
Netuitive Analytics White Paper (November 2003): Automated
Tools for Adaptive Infrastructure Monitoring describes the next step in systems
monitoring as the introduction of automated analysis products that can work in
conjunction with existing system monitoring tools. This is a good introduction
to the unique capabilities that Netuitive Analytics offers in terms of augmenting the
Logical approach of scripted monitoring with a Statistical approach based
on the actual performance of a monitored component over time.
Veritas APM White Paper (October 2003): Application
Performance - Key to Business Efficiency. This presentation
describes the Veritas entry into the Systems Management space, Veritas
i3. This vendor has a
critical mass of products in the inter-related areas of data protection,
storage management and disaster recovery, so we would expect that
this tool will provide good metrics and alerting in the lower levels
of the infrastructure. Veritas i3
claims its methodology allows you to find it, fix it and prevent
it from happening again, which ostensibly goes beyond the component
monitoring approach of conventional Systems Management products
such as AppManager and MOM.
InfoWorld Special Report (September 2003): The
Real Cost Of Linux. This analysis relates to Systems Management on the level of platform
characteristics. Most migrations today are occurring from Unix to Linux to realize the savings on hardware
costs.
NetIQ Presents Future Direction for Systems Management Products
(September 2003):
Systems Management Analyst Meeting. David Pann, Vice President Product
Management and Product Marketing and Scott Hollis, Director of Product Management, host
analysts and investors at the Grand Hyatt in New York.
IDC White Paper (August 2003): Customer
Study of ROI from NetIQ Management Software. This analysis offers six abbreviated
case studies covering a range of IT management issues. It includes a detailed breakdown of the ROI
formula employed. A key lesson from this paper is that managers have to assign a cost to their outages.
NetIQ White Paper (February 2003): Managing
UNIX Servers with AppManager. This document explains the exciting Unix module with which Appmanager
customers can monitor most of the popular flavors of Unix and Linux from their AppManager console. NetIQ
reports that this module has had good traction from existing customers and new customers alike. As of 2003,
AppManager modules are available to monitor all the leading database and web servers running on Unix/Linux.
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