Enterprise IT
Apica: Cloud-based Web Performance Services
Apica, an established web performance cloud service provider based in Sweden, is making a major push into the U.S. market. Far from a startup, Apica has been delivering load testing and web performance monitoring services in Europe since 2005. Their customer base of over 250 worldwide customers includes well-known names such as Price Waterhouse Coopers, [...]
IBM Tivoli’s Predictive Analytics Strategy for Enterprise IT Operations
IBM customers are significantly improving business outcomes by applying analytics to business projects. Similar results should be achievable by enterprise IT organizations when analytics technologies are applied to IT-specific challenges and operational processes. Delivering IT-ready solutions based on predictive analytics has been part of IBM Tivoli’s strategy since 2008. This paper outlines IBM Tivoli’s progress [...]
ITCAM for Microsoft Applications Customer Implementation Review
No matter what is driving a project, it is important for implementers to understand how to sidestep trouble by learning from prior experiences. This paper describes the experiences of an early adopter of IBM Tivoli’s Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for Microsoft Applications. ITCAM for Microsoft Applications is built using the same enterprise class base infrastructure [...]
IBM’s ISM Workshop: Prepping for Pulse 2011
The day before the annual Pulse event is usually spent reviewing notes from the previous year and preparing a plan to absorb the deluge of data that IBM, its partners and customers would shower on the attendees. This year, I had a different experience. For the past few years, IBM has invited a selection of [...]
Perspectives on IBM Pulse: What a Difference a Year Makes
This year’s IBM Pulse conference was interesting because it reflected changes that are happening in the industry – one of them being the shifts from vision to reality. Last year, two of IBM’s major initiatives promoted the ideas of cloud computing and Dev Ops to IBM’s mainstream customers. This year, many of IBM’s customers shared [...]
What’s Not, Will Become Hot
The fast pace of change in the Information Technology industry sometimes clashes with our natural human predilection to resist change. We prefer the comfortable and familiar, over the uncomfortable, unfamiliar and what we deem unimportant right now. So even though the technology advances rapidly, our human nature either blocks, delays or ignores change. (It’s the [...]
CloudPassage: First Security/Compliance Assurance Solutions for the Elastic Cloud
On January 26th, CloudPassage emerged from stealth mode to announce the first products specifically designed to provide server vulnerability and firewall protection in highly virtualized, dynamic elastic Cloud computing environments. CloudPassage announced Halo™ SVM (Server Vulnerability Management) to automatically provide virtual server vulnerability management with the speed, consistency and scalability required for virtual servers. The [...]
A tale of microprocessors and DevOps
At an IBM analyst event earlier this week, Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP & Group Executive, Software and Systems, made some interesting observations about how the microprocessor industry makes no distinction between design and fabrication anymore. He noted that it is simply impossible to produce new high density, high performance microprocessors without tightly integrating fabrication [...]
Thoughts on Virtualization – Sprawl, Stall, Mainframes and Servers
Virtual sprawl is primarily a problem of management – determining and implementing the policies, procedures and workflows necessary to monitor and maintain control over the proliferation of logical assets. The problem comes from the uncontrolled reproduction of virtual devices – it’s like letting all your users or the IT department buy a new physical m/c [...]
The zEnterprise System: Delivers Business Value
For a number of years now, the mantra has been that some 70% (and frequently more) of the effort of IT operations has been devoted to simply maintaining existing infrastructure. This leaves a maximum of 30% of IT’s time available to apply their creative energies to achieving business goals in new and innovative ways. Every [...]
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