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Virtual Environment Optimization (VEO), from Hyper9, is an intelligence tool for divining information about utilisation, performance, and any problems within VMware-based virtualised server environments. Organisations of many sizes and across all vertical sectors are finding it a severe struggle to avoid being bogged down by the infrastructure problems arising from their poor control of server virtualisation. VEO provides administrators with a search-based facility designed to enable intuitive, iterative…
Technology Audits - published 09/02/2010 - Alan Rodger
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Neptuny Caplan™ is a capacity-management solution for frequent and comprehensive business-oriented capacity planning with minimum resource investment. Caplan™ is agentless, and the solution uses standard and custom connectors based on both ETL and Web services technologies to populate a data warehouse with performance and workload data from systems-monitoring and management tools, and business-related data drawn from business applications. Caplan™ correlates the data between infrastructure and business K…
Technology Audits - published 20/01/2010 - Balachandar Ganesh, Roy Illsley
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Veeam’s nworks enables organisations to manage their VMware virtual environments, with the option of using ubiquitous infrastructure management tools from HP and Microsoft. Many organisations have been disappointed to incur significant management costs additional to their investments in virtualising infrastructure, in large part due to the lack of integrated management tools available. Organisations that nworks is aimed at include those using VMware VI3 or vSphere and managing the IT environment with HP …
Technology Audits - published 04/01/2010 - Alan Rodger, Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy
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Altiris™ Total Management Suite (TMS) from Symantec™ is a comprehensive data centre and client-side management tool for a heterogeneous infrastructure. Today the growth of technologies such as virtualisation is leading to a situation where more and more computational power is consolidated into the data centre, which increases the distance between it and the end users. Butler Group considers the ability to provide endpoint device and data security as part of the infrastructure management layer to be an in…
Technology Audits - published 01/12/2009 - Roy Illsley
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ServerView Resource Coordinator VE (RCVE) is designed to simplify the management and allocation of IT resources to business applications executing in a mixed physical and virtual heterogeneous data centre. Because current virtualisation technologies are very vendor-specific they can create islands that make resources less dynamic and more rigid unless organisations select a single-vendor solution. Butler Group considers the broad range of hypervisor technologies supported represents a significant strengt…
Technology Audits - published 26/11/2009 - Roy Illsley
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Virtualisation technology and the higher-level ecosystem surrounding it have matured rapidly over the last two or three years, during which time adoption rates have rocketed. With the answers to the many ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions around virtualisation now being well and widely understood, much of the focus is necessarily on important enterprise considerations such as management and security. This month’s announcements from EMC have shown that the company is likely to be an increasingly important player a…
OpinionWire Articles - published 16/11/2009 - Alan Rodger
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CA’s infrastructure-management capabilities are provided by a number of discrete, domain-management products positioned under an umbrella solution called Service Assurance. CA views its strategy as a next-generation combination of a manager of managers, which is typically technology-based, and a business service manager, which often does not have the strength of multiple technology domains available in CA’s approach. With CA Service Assurance, users gain a holistic view of all components in the IT infras…
Technology Audits - published 30/10/2009 - Roy Illsley
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EMC Ionix is a full-function infrastructure management solution, which is comprised of four separate modules: Ionix for Service Management, Ionix for Data Center Automation and Compliance, Ionix for Service Discovery and Mapping, and Ionix for IT Operations Intelligence. As the data centre becomes more complex, and more critical, to an organisation’s business operations, then the holistic management of the entire capability needs to be performed from a business perspective. Butler Group considers the
Technology Audits - published 08/10/2009 - Roy Illsley
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BMC Software positions itself firmly in the Business Service Management (BSM) space, with a large range of products that ties in classic systems management with the new requirement of ensuring that the IT assets and resources of an organisation are managed from a business perspective. Central to a good BSM solution is the Configuration Management System (CMS), and its most critical component, the Configuration Management DataBase (CMDB). BMC is well served in this area with the BMC Atrium CMDB. Unlike so…
Technology Audits - published 08/10/2009 - Roy Illsley
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HP’s Business Service Automation (BSA) is a platform that can incorporate business-oriented, policy-driven automation of operations processes for managing data centre and client technologies. BSA has a very extensive range of capabilities that provide management across the varied technologies within the infrastructure, but which also allow management, visualisation, and reporting to be oriented towards the business service. BSA integrates with the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to allow the org…
Technology Audits - published 15/09/2009 - Roy Illsley
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Sysload Software provides a set of server performance monitoring and management solutions that can be implemented in either an agent-based or an agentless manner. The Sysload offering comprises three separate modules – SP Analyst, SP Monitor, and SP Portal. SP Analyst is a server performance and capacity planning solution which leverages granular performance metrics, collected by local agents, to provide historical and trending analysis capabilities. SP Monitor also monitors server performance, but is sp…
Technology Audits - published 20/04/2009 - Balachandar Ganesh, Stephen Mann
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The economics of globalization demand that organizations adapt business models and working practices more rapidly than previous paradigm shifts have required, which can be summarized by the need to be more responsive, more agile, and more cost effective. The role of IT is now central to many organizations and as such is seen as the catalyst for transforming organizations’ future prospects; virtualization of the x86 market has presented a plethora of new opportunities that IT departments must prioritize a…
White Papers - published 24/03/2009 - Roy Illsley
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Corporate, Social, and Environmental Responsibility (CESR), if not already high on the executive agenda, is rapidly on its way up.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 05/03/2009 - Alan Rodger
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Corporate IT functions are being squeezed by an increasing variety of business pressures and constraints. Not only the enterprise-wide mandate to ‘do more with less’, but IT-specific drivers to demonstrate business value (through business alignment) and the need to maximise the availability of business critical applications.
Butler Group Review Articles - published 05/03/2009 - Stephen Mann
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ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM) is an advanced enterprise management solution for desktop and handheld device populations, which uses policy-driven automation to simplify tasks such as application deployment and maintenance, operating system deployment, personality migration, hardware and software inventory, patch management, asset management, remote support, and security management. It runs on either a Windows or a Linux server platform, and manages all current Microsoft operating systems as wel…
Technology Audits - published 19/01/2009 - Alan Rodger
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Neptuny Caplan™ is a capacity management solution that is aimed at frequent and comprehensive business-oriented capacity planning with minimum resource investment. Caplan™ is agentless, and the solution uses standard and custom connectors (based on both Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) and Web services technologies) to populate a data warehouse with performance and workload data from system monitoring and management tools, and business-related data drawn from business applications. The solution correla…
Technology Audits - published 05/12/2008 - Balachandar Ganesh, Maxine Holt
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Specops® Suite™ from Special Operations Software comprises three Windows Group Policy (GP) extensions, aimed at extending management through Group Policy Objects (GPO). These extensions are: Specops Inventory, which enables inventory data collection and reporting; Specops Deploy for software installations; and Specops Command which enables PowerShell scripts and GPOs to work in conjunction. All three extensions manage groups of computers with enhanced flexibility, granularity, and reporting. Companies wi…
Technology Audits - published 03/12/2008 - Somak Roy, Sue Clarke
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Agiliance delivers a complete IT risk and compliance management system designed to help organisations keep pace with the expanding requirements of IT compliance and to help companies operate at their highest level of perfiormance. Agiliance RiskVision V4.0 supports risk and compliance programs encompassing management of risks related to security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) functions, and for compliance with regulations and standar…
Technology Audits - published 03/12/2008 - Chandranshu Singh, Mike Thompson
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The increasing dependence, across all industry sectors, on IT as the life-blood of business raises the obvious question: “What happens when it goes wrong?”. IT Risk Management has become hugely complex and very high profile. It is no longer acceptable for IT to take the approach of plugging leaks as they are discovered – rather it has become necessary to adopt a holistic approach to Risk Management that can apply traditional measures of cost-justification to problem resolution across the whole breadth of…
Technology Management and Strategy Reports - published 02/12/2008 - Alan Rodger, Andy Kellett, Chandranshu Singh, Mark Blowers, Maxine Holt, Rob Hailstone, Roy Illsley, Somak Roy, Stephen Mann, Tim Jennings
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Ericom’s flagship product line, PowerTerm WebConnect, provides enterprise-wide access to applications and desktops running on a broad range of platforms, including Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops (VDI), Blade PCs and legacy hosts. As a Desktop Virtualisation and Presentation Virtualisation solution, PowerTerm WebConnect answers the needs of a market that is seeing server-based computing, virtualisation (in its myriad forms), and extensibility for legacy host systems as an effective w…
Technology Audits - published 24/11/2008 - Mike Thompson
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