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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...
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At VMworld , HP announced its virtualization smart plug-in (SPI) for Operations Center. For companies using Operations Manager as the consolidated event and performance management console, this allows them to see events from VMware Virtual Center in the Operations Manager console. The implications of...
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Filed under: Operations Center, Virtualization SPI, Operations Bridge, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, Dennis Corning, Consolidated Event and Performance Management, VMware, VMworld, Consolidated Management, Virtualized Infrastructure
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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 EMA webinar on “What is New in the Not-so-New Area of Event Management: Five Tips to Reduce Incident Resolution Costs” (view the archived webinar by clicking on the link). We had many great questions at the end, some of which we did not have time to...
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Filed under: Operations Bridge, Peter Spielvogel, SiteScope, Dennis Drogseth, HP Operations Manager, incident management, EMA webinar, SPI, HP OMi, cloud computing, smart plug in
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We just released a new white paper called “Consolidated IT event management: five requirements for greater efficiency.” It talks about the challenges of managing IT with severely constrained budgets and how to make better use of your existing resources. The main premise is to create a centralized...
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In this case, when we say NOC, we are focusing on the narrower Network Operations Center definition and not the broader Operations Bridge concept that consolidates events from servers, storage, networks, and applications into a single console. Here is a great promotion from my colleagues in the Network...
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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...
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Over the past few weeks, I have been involved in many conversations with both customers and colleagues about innovation. So, I wanted to highlight several new products that demonstrate how managing IT operations continues to evolve (contrary to some opinions). First, I’ll start with the foundation...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I have been getting many questions from both customers and colleagues about how Operations Manager and SiteScope work together. This is a very timely topic as we have some new capabilities connecting SiteScope and Operations Manager. Since many readers will not be attending my talk about this topic at...
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With all the doom and gloom in the news these days, it was a bright spot in my week to have a meeting with a customer that is planning to build a new data center next year. Even more surprising is that the company is in the financial services industry. And no, they are not receiving any government money...
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Dell recently issued a press release announcing its plans to launch an enterprise console that uses a single console vs. “up to 9 for HP”. HP’s approach has been to provide role-based tools that are optimized for a specific functional area. Each of our tools shares information across related domains...
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Last week, I posted about VMware’s move toward becoming one of the major infrastructure management vendors . Since then, there has been much dialog about virtualization and the vendors that provide management consoles for virtual servers and their physical counterparts. Virtualization.info responded...