Podcasts & Blogs @ TalkBMC: Episodes
Over the last decade, IT infrastructures have become exceedingly complex, resulting in a highly interconnected network of new and powerful technologies. In a world where IT budgets are shrinking and mergers and acquisitions are more and more common, how do you get the most value from your existing IT ...
While he's quick to say that he didn't choose the title of his white paper, "Between the Bazaar and the Cathedral - Where ITIL®, Business Service Management, and Open Source Converge" in this podcast, Whurley openly talks about the lessons learned and leadership of enterprise software meeting open source, ...
Mary Nugent Vice President, Service Assurance, BMC Software
In your IT department, what happens when your alarm levels go from 300 alarms an hour to 30? Would you trust your tools enough to know that the alarms it sends you are truly halting a business service? While Mary Nugent won't use this podcast ...
When does an IT department stop playing shoot 'em up games with their toolset and start playing cooperatively with tools that work like snap-together blocks? Learn this and more in this podcast with Dennis Drogseth, Vice President of Enterprise Management Associates. His viewpoint and experiences lend ...
Mobility has two meanings, when you stop to think about it. There's the mobile technology we've all come to appreciate, but there's also the legs that you walk around on and the vehicles that workers use for business. Mobile devices such as cell phones are technology-based movement enablers, but what ...
Going beyond just the technology, John and Mike talk about the results of annual mainframe survey from BMC Software in this informative podcast. If you've wondered whether process and organizational strategies are separated for mainframe systems and distributed, or how the mainframe's reach been expanded, ...
Listen in while Peter Armstrong, corporate strategist for BMC Software, talks about the needed skills for the direction that Enterprise IT is headed. In this interview, he gives his observations on an interesting opposition he sees forming. Now that IT does not have to run as if having the lights on ...
Perhaps your service desks are humming along quite nicely, thank you, but you're wondering what challenges or opportunities are around the corner. Maybe you've been listening to media outlets discuss home-based and outsourced service desk workers and want to know a service desk insider's view point. ...
What is Service Automation and how does it go beyond Data Center Automation? What are the benefits? Where do you start? Find the answers to these questions in this interview with Brent Sullivan, Lead Solutions Manager at BMC. Learn how you can deliver IT services faster, safer, and more cost effectively ...
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Are you wondering what, exactly, is a configuration management system, or CMS? How is a CMS different from a configuration management database (CMDB)? Why should IT organizations even care? Get some insights on these terms and concepts in this podcast.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Talkbmc-Audios/~4/290411765" ...
Column Technologies – Podcast Interview with Quentin Mackey, Regional Director of Delivery for Column Technologies, Inc. - BMC Partner.
Quentin Mackey looks at both the business and technology aspects of an organization so Column Technologies can provide solutions to better manage their internal and ...
The value of identity management goes beyond alpha-numeric password protection. The same goes for the identity data itself. Colin Fletcher, BMC Solutions Manager, covers numerous identity management-related topics, including the how you can use identity data in conjunction with proactive incident and ...
Customer churn is "enemy number one for business", according to Adrian Payne, professor at the New South Wales School of Marketing. In fact, in a recent survey in the Asia Pacific region, 6 out of 10 consumers changed suppliers over the past 12 months. Pe
Complex IT environments are even more difficult to understand and synch if your technology includes mainframe and distributed systems. Ron Michael, lead platform administrator in R&D support at BMC Software, wants to help. He currently pens a blog on
Offshoring your development and QA efforts has benefits as well as challenges. Ran Gishri, director at BMC Software, explains global sourcing and why it's important. He discusses common challenges many companies face when they decide to offshore these IT
The theme of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is "The Power of Collaborative Innovation". This goes beyond a discussion about disruptive technologies like Web 2.0 to conversations about how technology can be improved and applied to solve the
Identity management has evolved far beyond a simple understanding of who is accessing your applications and data. It is a critical and integral part of business service management and IT best practices, and its automation and integration greatly increases
According to ComputerWorld, 65% of IT professionals surveys said their IT budgets increased in 2007. The top 3 mission critical technologies that will receive funding in 2008 include software development and upgrades, network infrastructure, and data mana
Software developers everywhere are in a quandary. How do they spend more time doing what they do best -- developing -- and less time in problem resolution? Problem resolution is the time-consuming and often manual process of resolving software defects, bu
?The mainframe is dead!? is a misconception, but a notion that caused many organizations to implement distributed computing environments. Today, the bulk of the world?s most critical business applications remain on mainframes. But, the over-purchase of di