IBM's ITCAM: the larger view

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: SCOTT CRAWFORD ON NETWORK/SYSTEMS
MANAGEMENT
09/14/05
Today's focus: IBM's ITCAM: the larger view

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* IBM's ITCAM goes beyond simple Web services
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Today's focus: IBM's ITCAM: the larger view

By Scott Crawford

When IBM recently announced the IBM Tivoli Composite Application
Management (ITCAM) enterprise application management suite, much
of the reaction focused on ITCAM for SOA - and for good reason.

Up to now, we've seen more activity in this market by segment
leaders such as Actional, AmberPoint, Blue Titan, SOA Software
(formerly Digital Evolution), Sonic Software, and Systinet, with
some specific leadership niches within this segment, such as
Systinet's thought-leading Web services registry. Now that IBM
has made its most substantial entry to date in the field, a
turning point in this market has been reached. Virtually every
management heavyweight now has a credible asset in play for the
management of service-oriented architectures.

IBM's entry
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/082905-tivoli-soa.html?rl>
follows HP's introduction of OpenView SOA Manager in June, the
culmination of HP's acquisition of Talking Blocks two years ago.
With Computer Associates having bolstered its Web services
management portfolio with the acquisition of Adjoin at about the
same time, and application management leaders from BMC and BEA
to TIBCO and webMethods now in the fray, the SOA management
market has fully entered its second generation.

This focus on the Web services aspect of ITCAM is a bit too
narrow, however - and perhaps a bit too buzz-oriented. The more
significant story is what ITCAM represents to IBM's overall
service management initiatives, as well as the role SOA
management will play in the larger picture of IT service
delivery and service support. Recognize those terms? If you
said, "that sounds like ITIL," you're right.

In recent years, ITIL has become a significant influence on
enterprise IT, emphasizing a range of architectural and process
recommendations for IT service standardization. With its IT
Service Management initiative, IBM has wholeheartedly embraced
ITIL values. In the release of the entire ITCAM suite - which
includes software specific to WebSphere and Omegamon as well as
response-time tracking across a number of environments - IBM is
producing a product set focused on aspects of composite
application services central to IT service delivery.

This indicates the strong interrelationship between the impact
of service-oriented architectures and the overall significance
of IT service management. Within a few years, Web services
architectures may well define the lion's share of the technology
of IT service delivery. In fact, we are already seeing this
trend today, with large numbers of enterprises bringing Web
services-based SOAs into production this year, and Web services
becoming the lingua franca for the "loosely coupled" integration
of disparate application services crossing many boundaries of
technology and business ownership.

SOAs are more that just a new technology for distributed
application integration. They are becoming a principal fabric
for weaving together enterprise IT - inside enterprise
boundaries, as well as across multiple domains. With technology
this central to the future of IT, the stakes in SOA management
are high, and the directions SOA management vendors take their
products today could have a significant impact on just how
manageable, and reliable, we can expect this vital technology to
be.

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To contact: Scott Crawford

Scott Crawford, CISSP, is a Senior Analyst focused on IT
security, systems and application management with Enterprise
Management Associates in Boulder, Colo., an analyst and market
research firm focusing exclusively on all aspects of enterprise
management systems and services. The former information security
chief for the International Data Centre of the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, Austria,
Crawford has also been a systems professional with the
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research as well as
Emerson, HP, and other organizations in both public and private
sectors. He can be reached at
<mailto:scrawford@enterprisemanagement.com>
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increased corporate spending on key IT areas such as security,
authentication, access control and document management. Get
advice from experts. Read about real-world tactics. Learn about
the dark side of compliance: what happens when thing wrong. And,
how mandates are affecting IT budgets.
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