I was in the Orb data office the other day and had a conversation with some Orb Data colleagues about Performance and Application Monitoring and one of them (let’s call him Miles) was wondering why companies would buy a product such as IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) as opposed to Nagios or other similar open source […]

I’ve just read an excellent book by Robert Harris called the Fear Index. In the book a computer scientist called Dr Alex Hoffmann has developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks human emotions via internet news feeds , enabling it to predict movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. In the story […]

IBM currently uses over 10 metrics to license its Tivoli software. This alone might make keeping track of your licenses difficult enough but with the advent of Virtualisation this can make your licensing a full time job. If you take the following simple example you can see the issue. In this case a customer has […]

Last updated on August 19th by Simon Barnes Movies that include computers are notoriously inaccurate. Who can forget the girl from  Jurassic park shouting ‘it’s a Unix system’ as the velociraptors broke through the door or the graphical skyscraper directory listing from Hackers. Enjoyable films perhaps, but not fantastically plausible.  So maybe I can put […]

I’ve converted a presentation I gave at the TTEC in Prague into a whitepaper which is available to download now. Read the whitepaper:  TEC to OMNIbus The business case for migration Visits: 2