by Jonah Kowall | April 25, 2013 | 1 Comment
I had the pleasure of attending CA World this week with a few of my colleagues. Colin Fletcher joined me, covering similar areas. Laurie Wurster also attended, she’s our go to person for market data and forecasting across the IT operations management market. I had meetings with many CA customers, partners, and CA staff members. [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | April 5, 2013 | 3 Comments
In my coverage area we’ve seen quite a few shakeups, there are some large ones currently in flight. Companies we cover in the infrastructure and operations management space including BMC, Compuware, and Dell are going through privatization right now. They are being driven by PE firms which are trying to make money by creating additional [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | March 28, 2013 | Submit a Comment
Over the past several months Vivek Bhalla and myself have been working on a set of research notes addressing the lifecycle of unified communications. We had hoped this would publish early last month, but alas it turned into quite a project (75 pages published). We get a lot of client inquiry around management of unified [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | February 22, 2013 | 9 Comments
We have published the inclusion criteria, and the detailed evaluation criteria here : http://www.gartner.com/resId=2328015 Clients only for this link to the published research on the criteria. All Magic Quadrants are open to all vendors who meet the inclusion criteria; if you represent a non-client vendor and think you belong in the MQ, feel free to contact [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | February 22, 2013 | 40 Comments
Nagios is a great product, it’s free, you can’t beat that. The problem is that the level of usability and sophistication of the product is pretty much zero. Don’t expect any bells and whistles, or really any usability for that matter. The technology is rudimentary at best, but it can get the job done with [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | October 3, 2012 | 4 Comments
With some of the research I completed towards the end of last year, I take a pretty consistent set of requests on the evaluation and use of open source monitoring. If you are following some of the fun conversations on “monitoring sucks” you will notice that not only do most traditional monitoring systems fail to [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | June 22, 2012 | 3 Comments
There has been an explosion of these new style monitoring systems which to this point have combined system monitoring, 3rd party monitoring services, and other management technologies into a single stream of events. The products are all SaaS, and leverage other SaaS products into a new hybrid type of management “framework” geared towards agile, cloud [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | June 1, 2012 | 5 Comments
In our research published in April (Vendor Landscape for Application-Aware Network Performance Monitoring and Network Packet Brokers – http://www.gartner.com/resId=1987715) we made some assumptions about this new market which we were covering. Many know this market as Matrix switch, Director, or other tap technologies. We had defined and spoken to the size and growth of this market. [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | June 1, 2012 | Submit a Comment
Just wanted to add some commentary on the Watch4Net acquisition EMC made this week. Seeing EMC move away from straight network fault management in ITOI and re-investing in the network performance monitoring (NPM) provided by Watch4Net’s product offerings is very positive and puts them into a different category of network monitoring vendors. This is still [...]
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by Jonah Kowall | May 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
Just having gotten back from EMC World I attended this conference in order to get more insight into not only EMCs plans especially around the IT Operations Intelligence (ITOI) product line, but also to better understand the collaboration with Vmware considering they are 80% EMC owned. Interestingly after pretty limited investment in SMARTs for the [...]
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