- IT process automation, data center automation
- Server hardware monitoring
- Application performance management
- Configuration and change management tools
- Data center capacity planning
- Data center server virtualization
- Storage Virtualization
- Systems management for virtual servers
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BMC expands DevOps portfolio with release automation buy
BMC has made another DevOps play with the acquisition of VaraLogix, a closed-source provider of application release automation software.News | 08 Aug 2012
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Will BMC buy Puppet Labs for DevOps?
Puppet Labs and Opscode are tightly associated with the DevOps movement, and BMC is shopping for DevOps tools. A BMC-Puppet acquisition is possible.News | 07 Aug 2012
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Data center budgets reflect increased IT infrastructure demands
Data center budgets are up as IT infrastructure capacity is reached, according to the Uptime Institute survey. But how will the extra money be spent?News | 16 Jul 2012
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Facilities management team to the IT department: Let's work together
For the business to run smoothly, facilities management and IT must learn to use automation tools to cooperate.Tip
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Data center pros push systems automation limits with Chef
Data center pros push Opscode's Chef beyond simple configuration management.News | 21 Jun 2012
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Revlon CIO details private cloud success story
Cosmetics company CIO details his private cloud’s disaster recovery and transaction capabilities at Gartner summit.News | 14 Jun 2012
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GitHub
GitHub is a Web-based revision control hosting service for software development and code sharing. Definition
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Puppet Labs offers bare-metal provisioning to enterprises via EMC
Puppet Labs surprises some IT pros with a new EMC partnership that open-sources automated bare-metal provisioning for servers.News | 23 May 2012
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Wayne Kernochan
Wayne Kernochan is the President of Infostructure Associates, an affiliate of Valley View Ventures and has been an IT industry analyst for 22 years.Expert Contributor
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DevOps, Opscode Chef automate online auction site’s private cloud
A darling of the DevOps crowd, the Opscode Chef cloud configuration and automation tool is now the central point of IT control for MercadoLibre’s sprawling online auction site.News | 09 Feb 2012
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HP unveils cloud-based IT service management product Service Anywhere
HP's Service Anywhere joins several other cloud-based ITSM offerings, but questions about total cost of ownership could hamper potential sales.News | 22 Oct 2012
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What are DCIM tools? Test your knowledge with this quiz
Vendors talk about DCIM tools like they're going out of style, but what do you actually know about them? Take our quiz to find out and learn more.Quiz
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Mainframe monitoring tools get a new sibling with zEC12's zAware
Learn more about the IBM zEC12 mainframe's addition to the pantheon of mainframe monitoring tools. Here's a deeper look at zAware.Tip
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Assimilation Monitoring Project hopes to ease 'monitoring sucks' woes
Alan Robertson discusses how his Assimilation Monitoring Project may bring about the demise of the "Monitoring Sucks" movement.Q&A | 20 Aug 2012
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Remote reboot: Tips for colocation and emergency service
When the data center is far away and you need server maintenance, there's a simple fix. Explore two methods for performing a remote reboot.Tip
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Can you cut data center infrastructure costs with new analytics tools?
Leveraging new tools based on 'big data' analytics could help companies save money on data center infrastructure.Tip
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IPMI can remedy remote server access issues in your data center
IPMI can help with server management across many servers when proprietary tools can't do enough.Tip
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'Monitoring Sucks' movement rallies for better systems monitoring tools
IT pros have long suffered subpar systems monitoring tools, but they're not taking things lying down.News | 19 Jul 2012
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Facilities management team to the IT department: Let's work together
For the business to run smoothly, facilities management and IT must learn to use automation tools to cooperate.Tip
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IT personnel grapple with business uptime demands: Podcast Q&A
A survey finds the high availability demands of business technology means IT personnel have difficulty finding a balance between work and life.Podcast
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interrupt latency
Interrupt latency, also called interrupt response time, is the length of time that it takes for a computer interrupt to be acted on after it has been generated. In most computers, a trade-off exists among interrupt latency, throughput, and processor utilization.Definition
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BMC expands DevOps portfolio with release automation buy
BMC has made another DevOps play with the acquisition of VaraLogix, a closed-source provider of application release automation software.News | 08 Aug 2012
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Misconceptions about DevOps can impede progress
A DevOps expert talks about some of the incorrect notions some clients have about the accelerated application development processFeature
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CICS performance and design questions and answers, part 3
Robert Crawford answers more of your questions on CICS application performance.Tip
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Carbon emissions fall as IT adopts green cloud computing
Switching to a green cloud could provide benefits for IT departments and the environment, studies show.Tip
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Revlon CIO details private cloud success story
Cosmetics company CIO details his private cloud’s disaster recovery and transaction capabilities at Gartner summit.News | 14 Jun 2012
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How do you fill DevOps jobs? Hire squirrels
Conventional wisdom says that it’s hard to hire for DevOps. People who have done it say most organizations simply go about it wrong.News | 11 Jun 2012
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IBM's IMS version 12 catalog and repositories helpful for programmers
IBM's IMS version 12 debuts two tools, repository and catalog, which it hopes will make life easier for programmers.Tip
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Wayne Kernochan
Wayne Kernochan is the President of Infostructure Associates, an affiliate of Valley View Ventures and has been an IT industry analyst for 22 years.Expert Contributor
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VDI puts data center networks to the test
Virtual desktop infrastructure pulls endpoint management to the core of the enterprise data center, taxing data center networks.News | 23 Apr 2012
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HP unveils cloud-based IT service management product Service Anywhere
HP's Service Anywhere joins several other cloud-based ITSM offerings, but questions about total cost of ownership could hamper potential sales.News | 22 Oct 2012
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BMC expands DevOps portfolio with release automation buy