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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on 11-18-2009
Filed under: Virtualization SPI, virtualization, Jon Haworth, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, Consolidated Event and Performance Management, virtualization management, VMware, vCenter
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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pspielvogel
on 11-10-2009
Filed under: Operations Center, virtualization, Peter Spielvogel, Operations Manager, OMi, Software Universe, Operations Manager i, OM, Linux, OML, VMware, Hamburg, Roadmap
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...
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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pspielvogel
on 10-29-2009
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
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...
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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pspielvogel
on 10-16-2009
Filed under: TBEC, CMDB, service desk, Peter Spielvogel, OMi, SiteScope, agentless, agents, topology-based event correlation, OMW, Operations Manager on Windows