People are talking more about consolidated event management. Think about that. What could be driving these discussions after 30 years? Isn’t event management old news?

It depends on who you talk to. The people I work with live and breathe consolidated event and performance management or CEPM as we refer to it. So, we always talk about event management. Most customers I talk to politely ask what is new, but I suspect they really don’t expect us to have any real breakthroughs that will help them reduce the cost of managing events or streamline their operations. But others are starting to talk too.

Dennis Drogseth of Enterprise Management Associates monthly online column is titled “Consolidated Event Management: Why It’s more Interesting than You Think”. He talks about cross-domain event consolidation and how new technologies are giving event management a new life. We are seeing other analyst reports too talking about the important role an operations bridge plays in managing a complex enterprise IT infrastructure.

In the next few posts, I’ll focus on some of the new products and functionality that have people talking about consolidated event management again.

For Operations Center, Peter Spielvogel.