January 2009 - Infrastructure Management Software Blog -

EMA’s Top IT Trends for 2009 - Connecting the Dots

Enterprise Management Associates , an IT research company (that HP engages occasionally), published their list of 12 Hot IT Management Trends to Watch for 2009 . Not surprisingly they highlight: IT management initiatives that deliver measurable cost savings...

Published 01-30-2009 11:51 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: BSM, CMDB, adaptive infrastructure, IT trends, service desk, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel

Automated Infrastructure Discovery - Extreme Makeover

Good Discovery Can Uncover Hidden Secrets Infrastructure discovery has something of a bad reputation in some quarters. We've done some recent surveys of companies utilizing a variety of vendors’ IT operations products. What's interesting is that...

Published 01-28-2009 1:03 AM by pspielvogel

Filed under: HP Operations Center, consolidated operations, Operations Bridge, automated infrastructure discovery, HP Network Node Manager, Topology Based Event Correlation, NNM, TBEC, topology, event correlation, Jon Haworth

What the heck happened to Mercury World?

My colleague, Michael Procopio, received this question as a comment on his blog. The quick answer is that it is now part of HP Software Universe. You can read his full response on the Network Management Blog . For HP Operations Center , Peter Spielvogel...

Published 01-23-2009 12:58 AM by pspielvogel

Gaining Insight into your IT Operations

Here are some links to recent press coverage of HP’s latest infrastructure management software. HP extends virtual systems management Network World, 1/15, Denise Dubie Means to an end: New HP management tools address green IT challenges ZDNet's GreenTech...

Published 01-21-2009 6:46 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: consolidated operations, HP management tools, virtual systems management, HP SIM, HP Systems Insight Manager, Peter Spielvogel

Making Infrastructure Management Less Taxing

I bought my copy of TurboTax over the weekend. While waiting in the long checkout line, it occurred to me that the United States tax code has several similarities to IT infrastructure management. Let me explain. At the beginning, there was a needs assessment...

Published 01-20-2009 12:29 AM by pspielvogel

Filed under: server virtualization, infrastructure management, IT infrastructure, datacenter consolidation, Peter Spielvogel

Does Virtualization Consolidate Your IT Operations Or Fragment Them?

Customers tell me constantly they are consolidating their tools sets to drive efficiency and reduce operating costs. They tell me they do not want hundreds of point tools that they have to integrate themselves. They tell me they want to spend more time...

Published 01-15-2009 2:06 AM by pspielvogel

Filed under: server virtualization, HP OpenView, infrastructure management, HP Operations Center, reduce operational expenditures, data center consolidation, Dennis Corning

The Infrastructure Management Blogging Team

Here are some short bios for the new HP Infrastructure Management Software team. Dennis Corning For the past year Dennis has led the product and solutions marketing efforts for HP Operations Center (formerly OpenView Operations). In this role he is responsible...

Published 01-14-2009 3:59 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: HP Operations Center

Consolidated IT Operations: Return of the Prodigal Son

Let's face it, the concept of bringing together all of your IT infrastructure monitoring into a single "NOC" or Operations Bridge has been around for years. Mainframe folks will tell you they were doing this stuff 30 years ago. Unfortunately...

Published 01-13-2009 11:44 AM by pspielvogel

Filed under: HP Operations Center, consolidated operations, Operations Bridge, infrastructure monitoring, reduce operational expenditures, Jon Haworth

ROI for IT Infrastructure Monitoring - Measuring what Matters

I read an interesting post and related ebook by David Meerman Scott on why traditional marketing ROI measures lead to failure. His premise is that measuring marketing metrics such as number of sales leads captured and press mentions lead to the wrong...

Published 01-12-2009 6:30 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Business Service Management, HP Operations Center, ROI, performance, consolidated operations, availability, BSM, IT dashboard, return on investment, metrics, Peter Spielvogel

Is Managing Virtual Servers Just Like Managing Physical Servers?

As I travel and speak with customers, partners and analysts firms, I keep hearing that ownership for virtualization management is fragmented within the IT organization. Some companies have even created a new role called the Virtualization Administrator...

Published 01-09-2009 11:30 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Smart Plug-in, server virtualization, HP OpenView, infrastructure management, Virtualization SPI, HP Operations Center, Dennis Corning

Relaunching HP Infrastructure Software Blog

Welcome to the restart of the HP Infrastructure Software blog. HP Infrastructure Software includes a wide variety of tools from element managers that provide granular control over every aspect of a server through enterprise managers that give business...

Published 01-09-2009 11:00 PM by pspielvogel

Filed under: Operations Center, Infrastructure Software, Business Service Management

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