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Top 10 IT Predictions for 2011 Prevail - Here are a Few More Controversial Topics - ITIL Wane, Sourcing Options, Management License Models

Tis the season for Vegas, gambling and the Gartner Data Center Conference and thus many top 10 Predictions for the coming year. I'm not a gambler, take these as you may, but for those who know me might say she might just have a bit of challenge the status quo in her and a knack for blowing things up from time to time. As a bit of a researcher of the IT management industry, these are just my musings to add to recent flurry of top 10 lists from my friends on WorkloadIQ and Baseline that sparked my imagination of further possibilities. Here goes, a tad controversial, I welcome the discussion! :-)

I am pleased to annouce that the 4.7 Patch Bundle was released this week. The patch bundle contains several fixes...

I was talking with a co-worker the other day and we were chatting about Novell Operations Center, specifically Experience Manager (previously known as Business Experience Manager - BEM). We then remembered a story he told me a long time ago that I thought would be interesting to share.

From time to time we run across situations where the end user needs to grab a piece of information from within Novell Operations Center and add it to an email, a change request or some other application. While Operations Center can be customized to do some of these tasks in a more automated manner, there are some adhoc situations where the user would just like to grab the details and use it.

Are you leading your organizations cloud roll-out or are you reacting to it? It is happening, better to lead than follow!

The WorkloadIQ post and the article Richard references on the Stealth Cloud from a CIO article reminds me of a previous artilce about the Accidental Cloud Leader from a Networkworld article. Both of these articles point to the cloud is coming, the choice facing IT organizations is whether to lead, control costs, mitigate risk, deliver quality service and manage costs or to follow with rising costs, reactive IT, high risk and poor service quality. Richard hits the nail on the head, IT is traditionally change averse and insecure with the concept of outsourcing services. Technology is evolving faster and faster and the very organization that should adopt, deploy and lead with technology continues to lag.

In the previous blog(s) I showed an example of how you can automate the building of the server views so they are data driven and self maintaining. The next step is to put the rules in place to control how state (Critical, Major, Minor, etc) are propagated up from the different categories and control how they impact the individual servers.