John Willis talks about customers that use a hybrid approach of priority and open source monitoring tools depending on how important what’s being monitored actually is to the business. He says,”a running joke that was going around in the early 2000’s is that BMC and Tivoli created Mercury (now HP) Sitescope because they, BMC and Tivoli, would not budge on their per server pricing. In fact many of the enterprise proprietary monitoring vendors still don’t deal with the not-so-important-server issue.”

One of our favorite writers, Michael Vizard, examines the virtualization market and more at Masked Intentions. He says that, “Virtualization continues to evolve, and companies such as IBM, CA, BladeLogic and Hewlett-Packard have all made specific commitments to extend their tools for managing physical servers to virtual machine environments.” We would add ScienceLogic to that list of course. But what’s more interesting is the statement that newbies focused on point solutions around virtualization management are saying that virtual machines represent a paradigm shift that will make existing management tools obsolete. Am I missing something here? All management vendors need to keep up with technology changes – hence the move to support virtualization. The market needs change; the management tools change, hopefully apace.

PacketTrap thinks that commercial open source is dying. So does that mean they think only commercial open source is their competitor and not just open source monitoring software?

So their value proposition is not that their feature set and value are better, but that they’ll probably be around longer than any open source products dabbling in trying to drum up revenue.

Want to work inside the Interop NOC? We’re looking for some great people to join the volunteer team at Interop.

And finally, snicker, snicker. Here’s a truly funny post on the Broadcom debacle.

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In the fourth episode of the Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary’s guest is Dana Epp, CEO and founder of Scorpion Software. Dana also runs a popular software security blog and is a jazz trumpeter. On this show, Dana and Gary talk about past programming disasters (”code lives forever”), the security implications of systems with ever-increasing complexity, suggestions for new developers interested in learning about software security, regulation’s role in information security, and Miles Davis.

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