When Harold Macmillan became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on the 10th January 1957 he probably didn’t think 54 years later he would appear in a blog about Enterprise Systems Management. However one thing he said during his period of office is just as true for politics as is in the world of […]

I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, from up and down, and still somehow it’s cloud illusions I recall. I really don’t know clouds at all. Joni Mitchell – Both Sides, Now 1968 43 years after Joni Mitchell first pondered the subject of Clouds many IT budget holders are now struggling with similar issues. […]

Last updated on March 16th 2011 by Simon Barnes As a consultant the most common question I get asked at the start of any monitoring project is what should I monitor? Of course I can advise on the best metrics for such things as DB2 or Solaris however for any monitoring solution to really achieve […]

Last updated on February 25th 2011 by Simon Barnes I’m not sure if it is the recession or just a coincidence but over the last year I’ve been asked a number of times to help write Return on Investment (ROI) Studies or Business Cases to try and justify software purchases.  It seems that in the […]

Changing your name is in vogue at the moment. Norwich Union is now Aviva, British Petroleum is BP, Puff Daddy became P Diddy, and then simply Diddy before recently changing to Diddy Dirty Money.  IBM is no different.  Alongside the release of any “bluewashed” product comes the inevitable change of name and true to form […]