{"id":912,"date":"2007-08-01T17:07:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T23:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/08\/01\/klir-closing\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T17:07:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T23:07:04","slug":"klir-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/08\/01\/klir-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Klir Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news says SaaS provided IT management vendor Klir<\/a> is closing up:<\/p>\n

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As a venture-backed startup, [James] Maiocco [CEO] said, it is tough to switch gears.<\/p>\n

“You are not a conglomerate that can afford to pursue six different business models,” he said. “You are placing a bet on a business model, and you can’t go out after that business model half-heartedly. You have to attack it intensely, which we did. Unfortunately, pursuing our business through a direct sales model was just not cost-effective. So by the time we repositioned the technology and changed gears to a software-as-a-service distribution model, we just ran out of gas in the tank.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Klir<\/a> is (“was,” I guess) interesting in the IT management space as both providing IT management as a service (over the web) and as one of the offerings furthest along wit the idea of collaborative IT management<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t managed to do a write-up about Klir yet, but I’ve definitely mentioned them in regards to the co-creation stuff they were doing inside their product. Check out this note from Microsoft’s Cliff Reeves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, I find more and more IT management people realizing the benefits of collaborative IT management, both at large and small vendors. Once “raw IT management info” — be it “telemetry,” trouble-shooting (a wikipedia of sysadmin’ing), or best practices — more and more IT management folks have been trying to take a stab at the idea.<\/p>\n

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Technorati Tags: klir<\/a>, collaborativeitmanagement<\/a>, collabsysmgmt<\/a>, saas<\/a>, itmanagement<\/a><\/p>\n

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Short note on Klir closing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}