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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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11-10-2009
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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 read an interesting article in eWeek on “ HP vs. Cisco: Polar Opposites in Data Center Strategies .” The article focused on whether it is better for companies to choose from a collection of partners or a one-stop shop. From my personal experience with my home electronics purchases, I prefer...
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We have written about the challenges of managing Black Berry Enterprise Server environments, mostly because of all the disparate elements that must work together properly to ensure that people receive their email. For a user to successfully send or receive a message, the following applications must interact...
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10-29-2009
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Filed under: Jon Haworth, Peter Spielvogel, Research in Motion, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, RIM, EMA, Dennis Drogseth, HP Operations Manager, BlackBerry management, Jonathan Evans, Pierluigi Buonicore
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Last night I watched the U2 live concert webcast on YouTube ( www.youtube.com/u2 ). During the show, I just enjoyed the concert, which of course comes with Bono’s philosophizing. ( BBC News review of the concert .) Afterwards, I marveled at the technology that made it all possible. Billed as “the...
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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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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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10-16-2009
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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
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Thank you to everyone who attended the joint HP-VMware webinar on how to “ Reduce Costs and Gain Control of Your Virtualized Infrastructure with Consolidated Management .” The speakers were Terry Lyons, Technical Alliance Manager, Enterprise Systems Management, VMware Corporation and Mike...
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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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It seems that every conversation about IT infrastructure management eventually turns to virtualization. To help you better understand how we help you reduce the cost of administering virtualized environments and better manage performance of applications running in a virtual machine, we have two virtualization...
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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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He’s back. This time, comic genius and Director of Solutions Marketing, Mark Leake, interviews Mark Ferrer, Head of Worldwide Sales for HP Software & Solutions. They give 10 ways to optimize costs using HP Software . The video includes cameo appearances from two screen legends. For HP Operations...
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This post includes the last of my recordings from VMworld. - Peter Since so many of the sessions focused on capacity planning and its importance in both gaining executive sponsorship up front and in ensuring smooth implementation, I thought it would be appropriate to share information about a product...
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At VMworld last week, I spent some time with my marketing counterpart at Hyperformix , Rob Carruthers. We discussed why capacity management is so important for virtualization. In this podcast (3:13), Rob discusses: What is capacity management? How does it relate to virtualization? How does performance...
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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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09-14-2009
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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