Year End Holiday Specials!
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In This Issue of the GroundBreaker:
- Product News
- NEW GroundWork in an Hour Segment
- Webcasts
- Live Webcast 12/11: Open Source Monitoring in Higher Education
- 3 New On-Demand Webcasts
Read Gartner's 2008 IT Operations Management Hype Cycle report now and manage your expectations of ITOM emerging technologies.
Available for only 1 more week, download today!
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Discover simple, cost-effective strategies for managing systems with open source. In this free, hour-long event, experts from GroundWork Open Source share real-world adoption experiences from the University of Utah, SUNY and University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Hear the benefits of open source, its advantages over proprietary solutions and how tools from GroundWork Open Source enabled these institutions to:
- Efficiently manage and scale heterogeneous environments;
- Reduce ongoing monitoring costs;
- Consolidate views and reports; and
- Make better use of IT resources.
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Today's datacenter has incorporated several open source components because of low cost, more control and better tool integration. Some components are more readily adopted because they are mature, stable, and cannibalize what proprietary software delivers for very little cost or datacenter management disruption. Hear from experts how large datacenters are getting the most out of integrating open source with traditional software for better performance at a lower cost.
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Attend this webcast to meet and interact with the founder of RRDtool, Tobias Oetiker. Get a better understanding about what RRDtool delivers and why its architecture and round-robin database structure can handle a large enterprise load to better manage real time performance reports.
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In this webcast, we'll share how large, proprietary companies like HP have been overcharging IT Organizations for monitoring services.
In 2007, a whopping $4.3 billion was spent on availability, performance, and network management — 33% of the total budget for IT Operations Management. 70% of this was spent on the Big–Four solutions, BMC, CA Unicenter, HP Operations Manager (formerly OpenView), and IBM Tivoli.
Curious about just how much HP monitoring solutions cost, line item by line item?
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Are you new to the newsletter, and curious to know more about what GroundWork Monitor is and can do? Are you looking for better visibility in your IT Operations dashboard to improve efficiencies, save money and increase customer satisfaction?
Watch a quick demonstration, today.
December GroundWork University Courses
- HP Tries to Hide Its Pricing from Customers & Open Source Competitors, cnet news, November 25
- GroundWork Monitor 5.3 Ready for Testing, IT Jungle, November 18
- Community Created GroundWork Monitor Japanese Generally Released to Address Growing Market Demand, Press Release, November 18
- The Open Source Enterprise: Its Time Has Come, Information Week, November 15
- There's More To Open Source Net Management Apps Than Cost Savings Information Week, November 15, 2008
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