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Dave Lilly

CEO, GroundWork Open Source Inc.

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Founder and CEO of GroundWork Open Source Inc. which provides the most scalable, secure, and open platform for monitoring of services, applications, and infrastructure in the cloud and in the data center. www.gwos.com.

Dec. 16, 2010

Dave Lilly recommends this answer by Jim Turner

Best Practices in Achieving a Successful ITIL Assessment?

1. Ensure you have executive buy-in
2. Implement ITIL compliant enabling tools in combination with an ITIL Process Transformation project
3. Phase out the implementation by groups of processes with the early phases focusing on the processes which will have the greatest impact with the ... more

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Nov. 18, 2010

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What's the difference/s between ITIL v2 and ITIL v3?

The answer to this question would be massive in its entirety however as a summary.
ITIL V3 has a larger number of processes (many were there previously but have now been recognised in their own right) and is more focussed towards the 'world as ITIL ... more

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Nov. 11, 2010

Dave Lilly and 6 other people answered this question

What are the challenges involved in monitoring virtual environments?

Here are just some of the issues that need to be addressed when monitoring virtual server environments:
--Assessing the performance impact of allocating more resources than are actually available.
--Measurement of the virtualization penality, i.e. that is, capacity that is not available to virtual servers because the ... more

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Nov. 10, 2010

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What are the challenges involved in creating a one pane of glass monitoring solution?

Monitoring tools tend to proliferate in number throughout the enterprise. Some are free open source projects, some are OEM supplied management silos, others may be partially implemented Enterprise class solutions. Even when the tactical objectives for deploying each tool are achieved, there is usually a ... more

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Nov. 10, 2010

Dave Lilly and 5 other people answered this question

Why do projects based on open source products often ultimately fail?

Just wanted to thank Andrew for a great comment. We need to do all of these things to produce successful projects in IT and he provides a great concise list of reasons why all sorts of projects fail. Part of my post is that we ... more

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