I recently had a chance to chat with Nora Denzel, former Senior
Vice President and General Manager of the Software Global
Business Unit of Hewlett Packard, to talk shop about IT
operations management and open source's role / opportunity in the
space. Here's a snippet of the QA.
Open Sources: How big is the IT monitoring/management
space today? Who are the major players that occupy it?
Denzel: In 2006, Gartner released a study that pegged the
IT operations management software market at about $7 billion a
year with more than 50% of the number going towards IT
infrastructure monitoring and management. The dominant legacy
players that offer proprietary monitoring solutions are the usual
suspects - HP OpenView, IBM Tivoli, CA Unicenter, and to a lesser
extent BMC Patrol. Their software is filled to the gills with
features, which often goes unutilized I'd like to point out, and
is very expensive.
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