I’ve blogged about predictive monitoring technologies before however I think there is now evidence that the tools are starting to be used as part of an IT team’s core toolset. The big change for me is that large software vendors such as IBM are now taking the tools very seriously to the extent that they […]

Thankfully the need for a bank to courier magnetic tapes by taxi across the city to another bank enabling account transfer and clearing to be processed are long gone. Most data transfer between companies is performed using electronic transfers, which inevitably requires some sort of transfer of files between them. In this blog I will […]

Over the years that I have worked with TWS distributed I have worked with many different customers and it never ceases to amaze me how each one can use TWS in a different way. Of course the vast majority of TWS usage involves the scheduled execution of a process (usually batch) and does not differ […]

Enterprise Alert have released a blog announcing that Enterprise Alert now works with Skype. This in my opinion is significant news, previously, if you wanted to use VoIP as a notification channel you had to purchase a product such as Microsoft Lync, Cisco Call Manager or Avaya Aura. In my experience, potential customers who are […]

UPDATE: Read Netcool Operations Insight – What exactly is it and how can I get it? IBM Netcool Operations Insight V1.2.0, introduced in this blog post, has recently gone GA. This update to the initial 1.1.0 version includes major releases of both the Netcool/OMNIbus and Netcool/Impact products. Also new to 1.2.0 is IBM Networks for […]