People Over Process

• Cisco Tries to Break Out of the Data Center Role - NYTimes.com
• Macworld | Mac Gems | Spotlight Control
• Microsoft Makes San Antonio “A Force”
• Real ITSM | Making IT real
• What do all the sites without a CMDB do? | The IT Skeptic
  The continuing semiotic quest to figure out what exactly "CMDB" means now-a-days.
• Why is Project Management almost invisible in ITIL V3? | The IT Skeptic
• Microsoft ups the ante on ITIL by releasing MOF into the public domain | The IT Skeptic
  "Consultants, trainers and service providers are now free to create products based on MOF without paying licence tithes and without accreditation."
• PacketTrap gives enterprise “Perspective”
  Dennis gives the PacketTrap Perspective overview.
• Oracle collaborates with Beehive | IT Project Failures | ZDNet.com
• Dell Heaven
  Brief round-up of Dell's launch into social media over the past year.
• Is Surgient's success causing them to exit the hosting business? |Virtualization Report | David Marshall | InfoWorld
  Surgient is an interesting story of a company lasting long enough to jump into a new market and having the right tech at the right time. Go Austin!
• Sun expanding its virtualization portfolio with xVM Server |Virtualization Report | David Marshall | InfoWorld
  Nice coverage of Sun's current virtualization offerrings.
• Dell delivering quite a punch with its virtualization expansion |Virtualization Report | David Marshall | InfoWorld
  Dell specializing boxes for virtualization: more cores, better access to storage. The question becomes: does virtualization make commodity boxes less attractive and drive the desire for "luxury" servers and blades, like Sun equipment?
• FiveRuns and Morph Labs Partner to Elevate Rails Performance in the Cloud
  More on FiveRuns and Morph partnership: using private and public groups for FiveRuns TuneUp and then, in the future, using FiveRuns Manage with Morph.
• Start-up takes on application management in virtual environments
  "According to the start-up, FactFinder helps companies struggling to optimize application performance in a less static environment, such as those featuring both physical and virtual servers." Now's a great time to have any type of virtualization management technology that works - the Big 4 & Co. will be acquiring that kind of stuff right and left.
• Hyperic in Europe
• Most Mainframe MIPS Installs are Linux « Adventures in systems land
• Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM) - Sneak Peak - Geek Speak
  Solarwinds gets into network configuration management.
• Distributed network monitoring introduction
  Monitoring from multiple sources to get a better picture of performance from different parts (geographic, usually) of your network. As Jack notes, this is trickling down into the SMB space for IT Management.
• Brand New Fancy Social Web 2.0 OpenNMS.com Website Portal Thingie
  The OpenNMS's brand is "Zero Bull." Nicely done.

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