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Virtualization management seems to be the hottest topic for discussion, among both customers, partners, and my product marketing and product management peers. I was recently involved in a conversation with some sales people about why HP’s approach is unique. The reference platform for virtualization...
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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
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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...
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Automation has become a hot topic in IT. The NY Times recently posted a blog titled “ Beware, Humans. The Era of Automation Software Has Begun ”. It contains quotes from HP’s Ann Livermore , Executive Vice President, HP Enterprise Business. I am speaking at a webinar tomorrow that discusses...
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Podcast added on 9/16/09 Shay Mowlem, Director of Virtualization for HP Software, presented on his “ Vision for virtualization aware IT management .” During his talk, he made the case that Virtualization goes beyond the surface objective of server consolidation. The real promise of virtualization...
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I attended a great session at VMworld called “ Conquering cost and complexity in virtualized environments ”. It was a panel discussion moderated by Mark Linesh, VP at HP. The key speakers were Michelle Bailey, VP at IDC, and Rob Taylor EDS (an HP company). Michelle ran thorough some statistics...
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The first main day of the VMworld show was great. Over 10,000 people filled Moscone center to learn about how the hottest trend in IT can help them reduce their operating expenses and improve the quality of service. (Follow us at the show on Twitter #hpvmw) In the main keynote, Paul Maritz , President...
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Virtualization is a hot topic for all our customers. In every customer meeting, we discuss their virtualization plans and how to make sure they are monitoring the virtual infrastructure using the same tools they use to monitor the physical infrastructure. In this blog, I have discussed how to use Operations...
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The absence of posts over the past two weeks was a result of traveling to meet customers as well as some of our partners. This is the first of several meeting summaries. Look for more examples of how customers use Operations Manager in upcoming posts. - Peter I was recently part of a team that spent...
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Many SiteScope customers have been asking about the value of adding Operations Manager to their existing SiteScope implementation. Many Operations Manager customers have been asking about how the new SAM Admin helps them manage their SiteScope. The bottom line is that combining agent-based and agentless...
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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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07-31-2009
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Filed under: Smart Plug-in, TBEC, event correlation, Jon Haworth, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, UCMDB, OMi, Dave Trout, OM, SPI
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When I hear about innovation, I think about a breakthrough product or a significant update in functionality. In marketing parlance, this means a new version number 8.x to 9.x, or maybe a major “dot” release 9.0 to 9.1. So, when my colleague Amy Feldman in Business Availability Center told...
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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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07-13-2009
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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
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My colleague and consolidated event management guru Jon Haworth has recorded a podcast with Dennis Drogseth of EMA about the benefits of consolidated IT event management. During this 15 minute podcast, Dennis and Jon discuss: Benefits of an integrated approach to IT Operations Key groups, titles, organizations...
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Today was a packed day of sessions, roundtables, and demos in the solution center. The highlight of the day was a breakfast meeting that Dennis Corning and I had with a customer. He works for a large services company, employing over 100,000 people. Their IT infrastructure is pretty typical: several silos...