Here’s the current version of the presentation<\/a>. The frame running through it is a comparison of the Big 4 and the new crop of systems management vendors: what the new folks say about the old (FUD to<\/i> the Big 4), the general characteristics of the new offerings, what’s missing, and areas for innovation in systems management. It’s not all technical either: the last section deals with one of my favorite topics, controlling the story<\/a>. As I talk with more of the Big 4 on the topic, I’ll lace in the FUD they deploy.<\/p>\n While the overview isn’t at the tick-list level, it gives a good overview of what’s going on in systems management at the moment.<\/p>\n Last week I talked with one group for just under 3 hours on the topic: it sparked quite a bit of discussion in the room full of people.<\/p>\n It goes without saying that I’d relish any input you, dear readers, have. As I get more input and come across new things I’ll, of course, update the presentation. For example, I came across Klir Analytics<\/a> today, which seems an obvious addition to the collaborative systems management (and maybe just general) section.<\/p>\n And, of course, if you’re interesting in hearing the talk, contact me<\/a> ;><\/p>\n As a meta-note, for those of you who make presentations, the flickr commercial community commons<\/a> search is awesome. It’s the prime way I found most of the pictures in the presentation.<\/p>\n Disclaimer:<\/b> several companies in the presentation are clients, as are some of the Big 4.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tags: big4<\/a>, systemsmanagement2.0<\/a>, presentations<\/a>, hyperic<\/a>, splunk<\/a>, spiceworks<\/a>, sourcelabs<\/a>, qlusters<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" View more presentations from Michael Cot\u00e9. Here’s the current version of the presentation. The frame running through it is a comparison of the Big 4 and the new crop of systems management vendors: what the new folks say about the old (FUD to the Big 4), the general characteristics of the new offerings, what’s missing, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise-software","category-open-source","category-systems-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}