Category Archives: Provoked Retorts and Crisis Response


Posting responses, rants and raves to current issues, security breaches and all hullabaloo

FAQ of the Month: What do Oracle, Microsoft, BMC and INETCO have in common?

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Here’s our October FAQ of the Month: What do Oracle, Microsoft, BMC and INETCO have in common? We’re all in the Challenger’s Quadrant in Gartner Inc.’s Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) published September 19th 2011. As Gartner’s rules…

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What do you do when your category vanishes?

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One of the more suicidal moves you can commit as a marketer is to declare your category dead. But what happens if it just vanishes? Last week, Gartner released their 2011 Hype Cycle for IT Operations. After five years of…

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