So I was reading about the BSM space today and came across an announcement about HP's new Automated Operations 1.0 software suite that was just released. The article I read talked about this offering this way:
"According to Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP, the offering integrates assets from the vendor's OpenView products, as well as those it has acquired through Peregrine, Mercury and Opsware, to automate IT operations across various technology and organizational domains. Beyond automating all IT processes, Automated Operations 1.0 also automates service deployment, change, configuration management and compliance, and monitors and manages business services.
"We are giving customers a better way to operate" in the IT operations realm, said Eric Vishria, vice president of products for HP software. "These three domains have been very siloed in the past ... and have not been linked together. Now you can actually consistently manage them throughout the operational life cycle," he said.
According to Vishria, Automated Operations 1.0 ties together IT operations in two main ways. First, it provides a common understanding of the business service. "You can deploy it with Business Service Automation (BSA)," a new offering which provides a single platform for driving change into IT operations across applications, servers, networks, storage and clients, and for automating IT processes and providing a central configuration management database (CMDB) for reporting. The functionality in BSA comes from Opsware as well as HP's previous client automation technology, he said. "
Can somebody explain to me what this means? I applaud and respect HP for trying to bring together their siloed products and make them work together – I just sometimes wonder if cobbling together a bunch of tools built on last generation technologies is really a model for simplicity. I love to get your thoughts……
