Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for December 11th through December 14th:

• Chronicles of a Wandering Mind » Making vs. Taking – So we face with the choice Seth states eloquently in his post. Should we try to take market share by identifying RapidInsight with existing solution or should we try to make the market? The answer should not be that difficult. We’re way too small to make a market. We can easily say “RapidInsight is like Netcool, only better . An open source IT event management solution” It’s probably better marketing position for us. From a technical perspective, this is an inadequate description of our product. I want to talk about why focusing only on consolidating events, restricted proprietary languages, storing data in relational databases are flawed approaches and why one needs a built-in CMDB, object based data store, use of standard based dynamic scripting language , etc. Yet I have to accept that “making the market” is out of our reach, however “right” it feels.
• William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » HP introduces “Operations Manager i” – OMi takes the important step of modeling and managing events in the context of the overall model in the CMDB. Such that the event management features (e.g. correlation) can use the already-discovered relationships between the IT elements involved in the events (e.g. dependencies). The article also implies that the CMDB has been integrated with NNM (OpenView), Service Manager (Peregrine) and Server Automation (Opsware).

  It's great to see the shift towards leveraging the CMDB and modeling events in IT operations. This may help explaining RapidInsight differentiation in the market for us!

• Event Management in IT Operations. The Journey of RapidInsight v3 | iFountain.com – RapidInsight is “an integration, automation and presentation suite for IT operations management”.
  RapidInsight is a complete IT operations management solution, yet instead of rip and replace, it strives to complement existing systems by addressing their shortcomings, increasing the return on investment made on existing systems. It can be used as a traditional event management solution, consolidating events; IT operations management console to orchestrate all IT management tools; a portal to provide IT management information to customers and business users; to enhance existing management systems behind the scenes by bringing the power of standard open technologies into proprietary world; or helping organizations to advance in their struggle to better align IT with the business objectives.