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Sun to open source Ops Center
In a previous post, I mentioned the announcement of the Sun's Ops Center product targeted to the management of virtual environments. In this post, I said that Ops Center was a re-branded N1 System Manager, while in fact, it seems that this is a merge ... |
06-Dec-2007 |
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BMC announce Service Automation
Today, along with the acquisition of Emprisa Networks, and following the acquisition of Realops, BMC announced the Service automation suite of solutions. This includes : Discovery and mapping of the complete IT environment, including its relationship... |
08-Oct-2007 |
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BMC acquires Network Configuration Automation company Emprisa Networks
Today, BMC is announcing that it acquires Emprisa Network. It will complement the client and server Configuration Automation products, as well as the recent Realops acquisition to provide the Service Automation set of solutions. Emprisa Networks, Inc... |
08-Oct-2007 |
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Survey of Configuration Management Tools
A while back, I tried to list the various open source configuration management tools. I just found an interesting report written by student of the Catholic University of Leuven. In this report Thomas Delaet and Wouter Joosen are reviewing BladeLogic, ... |
14-Sep-2007 |
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BMC acquires Realops
Today, BMC announced the acquisition of Realops to build up the datacenter automation capabilities: RealOps AutoPilot products automate the business of operations allowing IT organizations to deliver higher levels of service at lower costs to busines... |
19-Jul-2007 |
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BMC to acquire ProactiveNet
Today, BMC Announced the acquisition of ProactiveNet : ProactiveNet provides a very pragmatic approach to root cause analysis by guiding the user along the process, reducing the knowledge required to diagnose events or alarms raised by various systems... |
29-May-2007 |
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Opsware patent challenged
Yesterday, the Public Patent Foundation announced that they are challenging patent # 7,124,289 issued to Opsware in 2006: The challenged Opsware patent claims methods for automatically configuring or installing software on a plurality of computing d... |
13-Feb-2007 |
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Parallels acquired by SWsoft
According to this article, Parallels was acquired 3 years ago by SWsoft: The tectonics of virtualization are shifting. It turns out that Parallels is not such a little company after all. About three years ago it was quietly purchased by an enterpris... |
22-Jan-2007 |
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Service Containers in Sun Grid Engine
During SuperComputing 2006, Sun announced the open source release of project Hedeby. This project introduce the concept of service container: A Service Container is a container for a service, functionality or application which can act with a variabl... |
08-Jan-2007 |
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Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring survey results
Zenoss published the LISA 06 Survey Results on Open Source Network & Systems Monitoring: The survey results included responses from over 100 LISA attendees both on paper surveys and via an electronic survey mechanism. Surveys were offered in th... |
05-Jan-2007 |
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open source configuration automation
While looking at some open source projects in the area of configuration management and automation, I stumbled upon several projects and links, which I think might be useful to the community. Bcfg2, developed in the Argonne National Laboratory. Licens... |
03-Jan-2007 |
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VMWare for Mac Beta has opened
Today, the VMWare Fusion Beta program opened : The new VMware desktop product for the Mac, codenamed Fusion, allows Intel-based Macs to run x86 operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, NetWare and Solaris, in virtual machines at the same time as Ma... |
22-Dec-2006 |
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CA acquired Cendura in September
Last month, CA acquired Cendura to complement its CMDB offering. This comes after a string of consolidations in the discovery space (see my previous post about Applications and Asset discovery landscape). It will be interesting to watch how CA integra... |
10-Oct-2006 |
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Scalent release V/OE 2.0
Today, Scalent announced Scalent Virtual Operating Environment(TM) (V/OE) version 2.0. With Scalent V/OE, infrastructure repurposing becomes nearly instantaneous. Changing system function and topology doesn't require touching physical cables or machi... |
30-Aug-2006 |
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Service Modeling Language (SML)
Today, Microsoft announced, along with other vendors, the publication of, or their intend to publish later, a new language to model data center resources and their management in XML. This language is called Service Modeling Language, and is based on ... |
31-Jul-2006 |
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HP to acquire Mercury Interactive
Today, HP announced their acquisition of Mercury Interactive. HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Mercury Interactive Corp., a leading IT management software and services company, through a cash tender offer for $... |
25-Jul-2006 |
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System Management Taxonomy
In a recent post titled OMC Should Drive a New Systems Management Taxonomy, the author makes the case for the creation of a taxonomy to classify and describe the various open source projects that the Open Management Consortium (OMC) is hosting. This i... |
20-Jul-2006 |
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Opsware acquires CreekPath
Today, Opsware announced their acquisition of CreekPath. it complements an already comprehensive solution with storage management automation. Creekpath's software has many of the necessary pieces for a strong application storage automation solution. ... |
11-Jul-2006 |
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Functional breakdown of virtualization offerings
In a previous post I tried to capture the functions required to manage datacenters and services across their lifecycle. In a subsequent one, I tried to map the VMWare virtual infrastructure 3 functions. Obviously, the granularity was not the right one... |
26-Jun-2006 |
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VMWare acquires Akimbi
Last week, VMware announced their acquisition of Akimbi and their Slingshot product: VMware adds Virtual Lab Automation, Configuration Management and Self-service Provisioning to its Portfolio PALO ALTO, Calif., June 16, 2006 -- VMware, the global l... |
20-Jun-2006 |