Cameron Haight

…. as I was saying (back in March) … okay, sorry, I’ve been less than a bit regular on posting, but once more I go into the breech.  Why the play on words?  One of the things that I have focused on in this blog as well as in my career at Gartner is innovation (or the lack thereof) in the operations management realm.  So when something appears at least somewhat unconventional, I’d like to point it out. The folks at GroundWork Open Source are going to include what they call a “Seurat View” in version 6.0 of their GroundWork Monitor (see here).  My wife was an art major, so I happened to know that Georges-Pierre Seurat was a French neo-impressionist artist credited with a painting technique known as pointillism (think painting with dots).  It takes advantage of how we see and process images to essentially enrich the picture (that part I didn’t remember – thank you Wikipedia).  Now, what GroundWork has done is not Seurat’s technique per se, but they’re onto clearly one of the problems in today’s increasingly virtual environments and that is how can we display information in a meaningful way for a large number of managed objects?  Traditional tree- and topology-style views just don’t seem appropriate for a dynamic, virtual environment, let along one that may soon expand into the cloud world.  Another initiative that looks interesting is PixlCloud. They’re building a SaaS-based visualization service.  Could a future management tool take advantage of something like this?  I don’t know the founder, Raffael Marty, but I have pointed out before some of the visualization techniques that he’s been involved with in terms of security visualization. If anyone else has any pointers to interesting visualization techniques that might be appropriate for the management space, please feel free to let me know.  

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