My name is Sonja Hickey and I just joined the HP Operations Center team 3 days ago. I will be focusing on the data collection aspects of the Operations Center product line and working with Peter Spielvogel and Jon Haworth as a Product Marketing Manager. I’m really excited to be working for Hewlett...
12-October-2009 update This position is now filled . Thank you to everyone that applied for this position. I really appreciate your interest. Stay tuned for an announcement on this blog in early November when the new person joins the blogging roster. - Peter As a reader of this blog, you already know...
In a meeting last week with our partner AlarmPoint , we were talking about how innovations in mobile computing are driving people to do more on their mobile devices, both professionally and personally. I asked Christel Mes, Director of Marketing at AlarmPoint, to share her thoughts about mobile management...
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Filed under: HP Operations Center, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, AlarmPoint, Christel Mes, BlackBerry, OMU, mobility, Android, AlarmPoint Express, mobile computing, iPhone
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, in our survey results, automated infrastructure...
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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
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 working on strategic projects and less on keeping...
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 for positioning, messaging, strategy, enablement...
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, in the distributed computer systems world, a...
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 behaviors and in some ways undermine one of the primary...
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Filed under: Business Service Management, HP Operations Center, ROI, performance, consolidated operations, availability, BSM, IT dashboard, return on investment, metrics, Peter Spielvogel
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. Why? If virtual servers are just like the legacy...