Links for September 24th

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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