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Current News and Events
Blue Medora Extends IBM Tivoli Monitoring to the Amazon Cloud | 2010-04-26 |
New Blue Medora Agents extends IBM Tivoli Monitoring to Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3 Cloud ServicesGrand Rapids, MI - April 26th, 2010 -- Blue Medora, a leader in extending IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM), today released two new products in its line of “IBM Ready for Tivoli” validated solutions that enable customers to extend their ITM investments by seamlessly providing in-depth monitoring and management, and increased visibility to critical IT infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services.
As enterprises move to the cloud, many want additional monitoring and management of applications. Blue Medora’s two new products extend ITM by providing automatic discovery, deeply integrated monitoring, performance tracking, and remote management capabilities for Amazon EC2 based virtual server infrastructure and Amazon S3 based storage resources. "Our customers have invested deeply in IBM’s market leading Service and Availability Performance Management (SAPM) product set," said Nathan Owen, CEO of Blue Medora. “They are rightfully resistant to the idea of implementing brand new management products for managing Cloud based infrastructure. By extending Tivoli Monitoring to Amazon EC2 and S3, Blue Medora provides customers with a holistic view of the health, availability, and performance of critical IT resources simultaneously across their traditional datacenter and the Amazon Cloud.” “More and more companies – large and small – are running IBM software on Amazon Web Services, in part because AWS offers the sort of durable environment that serious line-of-business applications require,” said Terry Wise, director of business development for Amazon Web Services. “Blue Medora is extending IBM Tivoli Monitoring to enable familiar enterprise management tools to also monitor the AWS cloud.” As an IBM PartnerWorld member, all of Blue Medora’s monitoring agents for ITM have been designed from the ground up to look, feel, and operate like existing IBM-developed ITM agents, and all have been validated by IBM as Ready for IBM Tivoli. Blue Medora’s products operate as first-class citizens of the ITM ecosystem—fully integrated with Tivoli Enterprise Management Server (TEMS), Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP), Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW), Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR), and other core ITM components. Available for Immediate Download Blue Medora’s Agents for IBM Tivoli Monitoring are available for a thirty-day trial from the Blue Medora website at www.bluemedora.com About Blue Medora Targeting infrastructure management, monitoring, and high availability through deep integration with the IBM Tivoli Service Availability and Performance Management (SAPM) product portfolio, Blue Medora’s products increase the performance and uptime of business-critical applications and enable IT organizations to achieve more with fewer resources. Blue Medora is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For more information visit the Blue Medora web site at www.bluemedora.com, email info@bluemedora.com, or call 1.800.851.9485. |
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RELEASE: ITM Agent for Amazon EC2 v6.21.00 | 2010-04-25 |
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Blue Medora has released version v6.21.00 of the Blue Medora ITM Agent for Amazon EC2. The EC2 Agent allows customers to optimize their existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) infrastructure by providing visibility into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) resource utilization, availability, performance, operational issues, and usage patterns. This results in less complexity, increased security, more uniform operations management, and a significant reduction in costs due to the elimination of redundant infrastructure and multiple platform-specific tools. Feature and BenefitsWith the Blue Medora Agent for Amazon EC2, you gain the ability to remotely evaluate the following classes of metrics about your Amazon EC2 based resources:
The Blue Medora Agent for Amazon EC2 also provides comprehensive remote management of EC2 based resources through a set of bundled ITM Take-Actions. These Take-Actions can be invoked to perform the following types of management activities:
Screenshot: Amazon EC2 Agent as viewed in the ITM Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP)
Blue Medora Agent for Amazon EC2:
For more information, please refer the the Blue Medora ITM Agent for Amazon EC2 product page. |
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RELEASE: ITM Agent for Remote SSL Certificates v6.20.00 | 2010-01-17 |
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Blue Medora has released version v6.20.00 of the Blue Medora ITM Agent for Remote SSL Certificates, designed allow customers to monitor the life cycle of remote X.509 based digital certificates. The Remote SSL Agent connects to a SSL enabled TCP listeners or a SMTP connections running over TLS and interrogates the certificate for information related to certificate validity based on the current date, the certificate's valid lifetime, subject, and other key data elements. Feature and BenefitsWith Blue Medora ITM Agent for Remote SSL Certificates, you gain the ability to remote evaluate the following attributes about an SSL or TLS/SMTP accessible X.509 digital certificate:
Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates has been designed from the ground up to look, feel, and operate like existing IBM-developed ITM agents in terms of ITM remote deployment, manageability via ITM command-line utilities, and installation and configuration. Screenshot: Remote SSL Certificates Agent as viewed in the ITM Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP)
When combined with the TCR Report Package for the Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates administrators are able to quickly and easily generate high level reports detailing the overall status of their remotely deployed X.509 certificates -- providing a pro-active understanding of when certificates will be expiring in the organization and causing outages. Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates:
For more information, please refer the the Blue Medora ITM Agent for Remote SSL Certificates product page. |
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Blue Medora CEO to Speak at IBM Pulse 2010 | 2010-01-14 |
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Nathan Owen, Blue Medora CEO and Founder will be speaking on February 23rd at the IBM Pulse 2010 Conference, the the Premier Service Management Event, in Las Vegas, NV. Nathan Owen will be co-presenting with Commerce Bank and IBM to discuss how Commerce Bank and Blue Medora have leveraged IBM Tivoli Monitoring (IBM) extensibility to expand the IBM Tivoli Monitoring eco-system of ITM Agents and Product extensions. Specifically, Nathan Owen will discuss and demonstrate a number of the ITM monitoring agents and Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) report packages Blue Medora has delivered over the past year, and will describe how IBM's ITM Agent Builder toolkit has enabled Blue Medora to expand it's customer base and drive revenue from within the ITM ecosystem.
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RELEASE: ITM Agent for Ping Probe v6.20.00 | 2010-01-08 |
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Blue Medora has released version v6.20.00 of the Blue Medora ITM Agent for Ping Probe, designed allow customers to optimize their existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) infrastructure by providing a high capacity ping functionality for any host on their network that supports ICMP based pinging including switches, routers, servers, and other TCP/IP enabled devices. Feature and BenefitsWith Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe, you gain the ability to perform ITM based pings against thousands of hosts. Key characteristics of the Agent include:
Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe has been designed from the ground up to look, feel, and operate like existing IBM-developed ITM agents in terms of ITM remote deployment, manageability via ITM command-line utilities, and installation and configuration. When combined with the TCR Report Package for the Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe administrators are able to quickly and easily generate high level reports detailing the overall availability of their environment over days, weeks, months and years as well as drill down to the availability of individual hosts to determine when specific outages are occurring. Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe:
For more information, please refer the the Blue Medora ITM Agent for Ping Probe product page. |
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Blue Medora TCR Report Package for Remote SSL Certificates Achieves 'IBM Ready for Tivoli’ Status | 2010-01-04 |
Blue Medora TCR Report Bundle for Remote SSL Certificates ITM passes rigorous evaluation and testing, adds x.509 certificate expiration detection capability to IBM Tivoli Monitoring
January 4th, 2010 -- Blue Medora today announced an expanded relationship with IBM Tivoli Software. After a rigorous validation process, IBM Tivoli awarded the IBM Ready for Tivoli technical validation status to Blue Medora’s Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) Report Package for Remote SSL Certificates. The Blue Medora TCR Package for Remote SSL Certificates, when combined with Blue Medora's IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) Agent for Remote SSL Certificates, strengthens ITM by providing deeply integrated monitoring of critical x.509 digital certificate based security infrastructure within the enterprise. Specifically, the TCR Report Package for Remote SSL Certificates provide a concise, summarized, and customizable view of digital certificates that are near expiration or have already expired throughout the enterprise. “This report package when combined with Blue Medora’s ITM Agent for Remote SSL Certificates provide a powerful tool that allow IT administrators to pro-actively manage and avoid the kinds of IT infrastructure outages that typically result from digital certificates expiring in the organization,” said Nathan Owen, CEO, Blue Medora. “Blue Medora’s laser focus on developing value-added solutions that tightly integrate and enhance IBM Tivoli’s Service Availability and Performance Monitoring (SAPM) solution set enables enterprises to reduce cost and enhance efficiency by replacing a patchwork of homegrown and point solutions used to monitor critical IT systems and consolidate into IBM’s market leading SAPM solution portfolio. Blue Medora thus eliminates redundant monitoring and management consoles, and enhances root cause analysis by bringing an increasingly diverse set of monitoring capabilities together under the IBM Tivoli product umbrella.” As an IBM PartnerWorld member, all of Blue Medora’s monitoring ITM agents and TCR report bundles have been designed from the ground up to look, feel, and operate like existing IBM-developed agents and report packages, and all have been validated by IBM as Ready for IBM Tivoli. Blue Medora’s products operate as first-class citizens of the ITM ecosystem—fully integrated with Tivoli Enterprise Management Server (TEMS), Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP), Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW), Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR), and other core ITM components. The Blue Medora TCR Reports for Remote SSL Certificates can be found in the IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library (OPAL) on-line Catalog at: www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/opal. Available for Immediate Download Blue Medora’s Agents for IBM Tivoli Monitoring and TCR Report Packages are available for a thirty-day trial from the Blue Medora website at www.bluemedora.com. About Blue Medora Targeting infrastructure management, monitoring, and high availability through deep integration with the IBM Tivoli Service Availability and Performance Management (SAPM) product portfolio, Blue Medora’s products increase the performance and uptime of business-critical applications and enable IT organizations to achieve more with fewer resources. Blue Medora is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For more information visit the Blue Medora web site at www.bluemedora.com, email info@bluemedora.com, or call 1.800.851.9485. |
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Blue Medora to Exhibit at IBM Pulse 2010 | 2009-12-10 |
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We are pleased to announce Blue Medora will be exhibiting at IBM Pulse in February of 2010, and hope that everyone has a chance to make it to our booth. We'll be demonstrating both our existing line of Blue Medora ITM Monitoring Agents and TCR Report Bundles as well as previewing some exciting new ITM Agents we have in the works. In addition to demos and in-depth technical information we'll have some give-aways and a strong contingent of our best and brightest Blue Medora minds there to talk about your ITM Monitoring needs. |
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Blue Medora Launches Broad Product Line to Extend IBM Tivoli Monitoring | 2009-09-21 |
New Blue Medora Agents for ITM expand IBM Tivoli Monitoring to IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Symantec Endpoint Protection, and granular monitoring of files and directories.September 21st, 2009 -- Blue Medora today released three new products in its line of “IBM Ready for Tivoli” validated solutions that enable customers to extend their IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) investment by seamlessly providing in-depth monitoring and management and increased visibility to critical enterprise applications and middleware:
Blue Medora’s Agents for ITM extend IBM Tivoli Monitoring by providing deeply integrated monitoring and management capabilities for IBM Tivoli Directory Server, Symantec Endpoint Protection, and granular file and directory monitoring capabilities for Windows, Unix, and Linux operating systems. "Blue Medora Agents for ITM help extend IBM Tivoli Monitoring capabilities by seamlessly providing in-depth monitoring and management and increased visibility to critical enterprise applications and middleware,” said John Steigerwald, Director of Product Management Service Availability and Network Products of Tivoli Software, IBM. “Blue Medora's agents exemplify the effort and commitment that IBM Tivoli has made to work with partners to provide true end to end application management. These new agents will help strengthen IBM's position as leader in the application management and monitoring space." "IBM has taken a refreshingly open approach to providing the technology, tools, and support we need to deliver tight and seamless product integration for our mutual IBM Tivoli Monitoring customers," said Nathan Owen, CEO of Blue Medora. "Combining Blue Medora’s monitoring agents with IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides customers with a more effective means for handling the complexities of monitoring and managing enterprise applications and middleware.” As an IBM PartnerWorld member, all of Blue Medora’s monitoring agents for ITM have been designed from the ground up to look, feel, and operate like existing IBM-developed ITM agents, and all have been validated by IBM as Ready for IBM Tivoli. Blue Medora’s products operate as first-class citizens of the ITM ecosystem—fully integrated with Tivoli Enterprise Management Server (TEMS), Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP), Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW), Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR), and other core ITM components. Available for Immediate Download Blue Medora’s Agents for IBM Tivoli Monitoring are available for a thirty-day trial from the Blue Medora website at www.bluemedora.com About Blue Medora Targeting infrastructure management, monitoring, and high availability through deep integration with the IBM Tivoli Service Availability and Performance Management (SAPM) product portfolio, Blue Medora’s products increase the performance and uptime of business-critical applications and enable IT organizations to achieve more with fewer resources. Blue Medora is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. For more information visit the Blue Medora web site at www.bluemedora.com, email info@bluemedora.com, or call 1.800.851.9485. |
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Blue Medora Peoplesoft Management Pack Achieves 'Ready for IBM Tivoli Software' Status | 2008-04-29 |
Blue Medora PeopleSoft Management Pack for ITM passes rigorous evaluation and testing, adds PeopleSoft monitoring capability to IBM Tivoli MonitoringBlue Medora today announced an expanded relationship with IBM Tivoli Software. After a rigorous validation process, IBM Tivoli awarded the Ready for IBM Tivoli Software technical validation status to Blue Medora’s PeopleSoft Management Pack for IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM). The Blue Medora PeopleSoft Management Pack for ITM strengthens IBM Tivoli Monitoring by providing deeply integrated monitoring and management capabilities for PeopleSoft environments. The PeopleSoft Management Pack for ITM provides an IBM validated out-of-the-box software extension that enhances ITM’s ability to detect bottlenecks and potential problems in essential PeopleSoft Application Server, Process Scheduler, Tuxedo, and PeopleTools components. "IBM has taken a thoroughly modern approach to enterprise systems monitoring with IBM Tivoli Monitoring and it is the solution of choice for our customers," said Nathan Owen, President, Blue Medora. "Combining Blue Medora’s ERP focused ITM Management Packs with IBM Tivoli Monitoring gives our mutual customers a more effective means for handling the complexities of monitoring and managing business critical ERP applications." Blue Medora's PeopleSoft Management Pack for ITM seamlessly integrates into existing ITM environments including key ITM infrastructure components such as TEMS, TEPS, TDW, and TCR. Blue Medora's ITM Agents appear side by side with existing ITM agents and maintain the visual and operational consistency ITM administrators experience with native IBM released ITM agents. The Blue Medora PeopleSoft Management Pack for ITM can be found in the IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library (OPAL) on-line Catalog at www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/opal. About Blue Medora Targeting infrastructure management, monitoring, and high availability through deep integration with the IBM Tivoli Service Availability and Performance Management (SAPM) product portfolio, Blue Medora’s products increase the performance and uptime of business-critical applications and enable IT organizations to achieve more with fewer resources. Blue Medora is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Blue Medora Announces Strategic Partnership with Agile Development Pioneer, Atomic Object | 2008-01-08 |
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Grand Rapids, MI (PRWEB) January 8, 2008 -- Grand Rapids, Michigan based Blue Medora LLC (www.bluemedora.com) announced today that it has selected Atomic Object LLC, a pioneer and expert in agile development practices, as a strategic investor and technology partner. Blue Medora is a provider of software solutions that extend, consolidate, and manage Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems via extensions to IBM’s best of breed enterprise monitoring solution, IBM Tivoli Monitoring. Blue Medora's software solutions help reduce the expense of enterprise systems management while increasing the visibility into ERP systems when used in combination with ITM. "We expect Blue Medora’s ERP focused extensions for IBM Tivoli Monitoring to emerge as a key accelerant in the management of ERP solutions within Fortune 5000 enterprises. IBM Tivoli Monitoring customers will see significant ROI by being able to support a more diverse set of high value ERP applications across their organizations,” said Dr. Carl Erickson, president of Atomic Object. “Our investment underscores our confidence in Blue Medora as a valuable strategic partner, and gives us the opportunity to leverage our agile development practices in the enterprise space.” Nathan Owen, CEO of Blue Medora LLC, commented: “We chose Atomic Object because of its world-class reputation for agile development and their extensive experience developing world class mission critical software solutions. Atomic Object’s track record developing defect free software and their extreme focus on test-driven development (TDD) and automated system testing translated well for our tightly focused development of extensions to IBM Tivoli products on a broad range of platforms.” Blue Medora will be demonstrating the tight integration between its IBM Tivoli Monitoring extensions for Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle E-Business Suite at the IBM Tivoli Pulse Conference, held in Orlando, FL on May 19th-22nd, 2008. About Blue Medora LLC Blue Medora LLC is a provider of software solutions that extend, consolidate, and manage Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems via extensions to IBM’s flagship enterprise monitoring solution, IBM Tivoli Monitoring. Blue Medora's software solutions help reduce the expense of enterprise systems management while increasing the visibility into ERP systems when used in combination with ITM. For more information visit the Blue Medora web site at www.bluemedora.com, email info@bluemedora.com, or call 1.800.851.9485. About Atomic Object Atomic Object builds custom software for companies of all sizes. A pioneer and expert in agile development practices, Atomic teams have delivered the highest quality software, on-time and on-budget, since 2001. Its projects span a broad range of technologies, from Web and desktop to embedded and operating systems, in a diversity of domains, including industrial test and measurement, e-commerce, financial services, health care, and self-service kiosk. |
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