Software Universe is only five weeks away. We hold this event twice each year, alternating between a United States and European location. The upcoming event is in Hamburg at the Congress Centre Hamburg (CCH) from Wednesday, December 16th – Friday, December 18th 2009. (If you missed our last Software...
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Filed under: Operations Center, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, OMi, Software Universe, Operations Manager i, OM, Linux, OML, VMware, Hamburg, Roadmap
I spent the past two days in a planning meeting with my product marketing peers from different product groups including infrastructure monitoring , application monitoring , network monitoring , CMDB , service management , and IT financial management . We reviewed all our respective product plans and...
As I was getting ready to leave yesterday, a colleague stopped by my desk and asked “do you want to be a hero?” That certainly peaked my interest. It turned out we had a customer downstairs in our executive briefing center that wanted some clarification about all the pieces of our stack fit...
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Filed under: TBEC, CMDB, service desk, Peter Spielvogel, OMi, SiteScope, agentless, agents, topology-based event correlation, OMW, Operations Manager on Windows
My colleague, Aruna Ravichandran, in Network Management Center Product Marketing, asked me to share information about a customer webinar in which they describe their success in upgrading to NNMi. Since many Operations Bridges also manage networks in addition to the server infrastructure, I agreed. As...
Thank you to everyone who attended the Vivit webinar. The recording is now available for viewing on Vivit’s web site . You can also download or view the presentation slides in PDF format . There were many questions from the audience. Jon Haworth and Dave Trout's answers appear below. I have...
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Filed under: Smart Plug-in, TBEC, event correlation, Jon Haworth, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, UCMDB, OMi, Dave Trout, OM, SPI
While OMU 9.0 represents evolutionary innovation, Operations Manager i 8.1 (OMi) is truly revolutionary. Operations Manager i is a set of add-on products which extends existing HP Operations Manager to provide advanced event correlation and system health capabilities. It uses the proven causal engine...
My colleague and consolidated event management expert Jon Haworth is the guest speaker at an upcoming Vivit webinar on Tuesday July 21 . Vivit is the independent HP Software users community. Jon will talk about using an operations bridge effectively and how the latest advanced correlation and visualization...
On Tuesday July 28, I will be participating in an EMA webinar with researcher and Vice President Dennis Drogseth . The official title “ What is New in the Not-so-New Area of Event Management: Five Tips to Reduce Incident Resolution Costs ” is very telling. Many people believe that there is...
Today was the first day of Software Universe . I attended the parts of the Customer Advisory Board meeting that pertained to Operations Manager. Some common issues emerged from the discussions: Customers still face challenges regarding integrating information from disparate IT silos. They are looking...
There has been some FUD thrown around by one of our competitors about HP’s commitment to our Operations management products. This nameless competitor is calling for HP customers to migrate to this competing suite of BSM products. They even have specific plays for HP OpenView Operations (now called...
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Filed under: BSM, TBEC, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, IT infrastructure monitoring, OMi, SiteScope, topology-based event correlation, rip and replace, OpenView Operations, OM
Every time I speak to customers about consolidated event and performance management, they want to know HP’s vision. What does the end-state look like? How do all the pieces fit together to save my company money? How does an Operation Bridge drive efficiencies? How does OMi extend my existing monitoring...