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HP Software Universe - Free Online

Michael_Procopio — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:58:00 GMT

by Michael Procopio

If you missed HP Software Universe 2009, here’s your chance to get the session information from the comfort of your computer.

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· Session PDFs and audiocast recordings to more than 180 presentations delivered by HP experts, customers, and partners. Topics included implementation best practices, new releases, and product roadmaps.

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Network Management at HP Software Universe

Michael_Procopio — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:46:00 GMT

by Michael Procopio

HP Software Universe is next week, 16-18 June, in Las Vegas. Network Management will be well represented.

Aruna Ravichandran is speaking in three sessions, you can see information on those at her post HPSoftware Universe/HP Technology Forum (HPTF) - Network Management sessions.

Here is the list of sessions, I have marked Aruna’s with an –A next to the session number:

Session ID	Title	Presenting company
1028	Deploying HP Performance Insight in large scale environments	HP
1076	HP Network Node Manager-i SPI for performance: become a power user in less than an hour	HP
1081-A	HP Network Node Manager 7 to 8i: a migration story	Melillo Consulting
1092	Melillo: how to deploy data center infrastructure monitoring in small and medium business environments	Melillo Consulting
1299	Integrating voice and video management into network operations	EMA
1345	NetScout: unified service-delivery management for improving application performance in the modern IP network	NetScout Systems
1353	Automated network lifecycle management: transforming network management to a fully integrated and automated approach with breakthrough ROI	HP
1354	HP Performance Insight: techniques to drive performance management productivity	HP
1403-A	HP Network Node Manager-i: a review of functionality that can yield significant ROI to your network management operations	HP
1404-A	Network Node Manager-i 8.11 Smart Plug-Ins: adding value to your network and fault management operations when deploying NNMi	HP
1410	HP Network Node Manager-i upgrade tips and tricks	HP
1411	HP Network Node Manager-i deployment by example	HP
1488	HP Network Node Manager-i upgrade tips and tricks	HP

You can get the details of all the Network Management sessions at the HP Software Universe Track Session Catalog.

I hope to see you there, but if you can’t make it we will be doing follow-up posts. You can also follow on Twitter, the hashtag is #HPSU09. There are already a number of Tweets and the show hasn’t started yet. The Twitter account for the show is HPSU09, if you’d like to follow us. Or visit the HP Software Universe Facebook page.

Dog lover sees bright spot in Network Management economy

Michael_Procopio — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:20:00 GMT

I was just reading an article by a fellow dog lover Tracy Corbo of IDC called Technology That Is Relevant in a Recession - Network Infrastructure Management

She points out something that I have been thinking about, that is, in this recession the more selling and other operations that can be moved to the network, the more money can be saved.

There are a couple results of that sentence. One, we are in a recession. That means budgets are tighter including for IT so throwing hardware at a performance problem to make it better –- maybe not.

Two, the network's importance goes up. The American saying is "don't put all your eggs in one basket" – in this case don’t put everything on the network, but we don't have much choice. The cost of moving all those network interactions to phone calls would be astronomic. According to the book Net Income Cut Costs Boost Profits By Wally Bock and Jeff Senné, the average cost of going through a customer call center is US$20. I don't have an exact reference for a number for web transactions but I bet it is less than $1, that is a 20:1 cost increase.

Three, therefore managing the network becomes critical to organizations. And that means network management software is pretty important to have.

The support for this conclusion: a number of network management vendors have recently reported strong earnings. Actually, this was Tracy’s main point.

Here are some tidbits from our customers on how NNMi helped them (paraphrased):

·Health Care Customer: It is nice to have NNMi find a down device before someone needs to go use that lab.
·Beta customer: We found 6 bad power supplies and a couple bad fans using the software, if the redundant units had gone down we have a network down and a scramble. Now we can send a tech out to replace the units in a planned way.
·Internal testing - using the NNM iSPI Performance we found links with duplex mismatch. [Duplex mismatch will create packet errors due to collisions and can exhibit as weird performance problems.] We found them before we put the links into production saving a lot of headaches trying to track them down.

If you have any cost savings examples please put in a comment. Or if you like contact us about being a guest blogger.

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What the heck happened to Mercury world?

Michael_Procopio — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:07:00 GMT

I received this comment on the blog:

Q: I would like to attend the equivalent of Mercury world this year, but I cannot find anything about it. Has it been canceled?

A: No. When Mercury was acquired by HP the HP OpenView Forum and Mercury World were combined into HP Software Universe. HP Software Universe is currently held twice per year, once in the U.S. and once in EMEA. The last event was HP Software Universe Vienna, Austria. The next event will be HP Software Universe Las Vegas, NV USA 16-18 June 2009.

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