Doing a little research on the internet provides some interesting perspective on EMC’s powerful framework management solutions.  Below is a  snippit from the press release on  one of EMC’s many acquisitions in the monitoring & management arena.  I think that the quote effectively indicates EMC’s overall managing strategy:

“The acquisition complements and extends EMC’s position in the rapidly-emerging IT Service Management marketplace.  EMC’s leadership in cross-domain incident and problem management will be combined with Voyence’s network change and configuration management to provide premier closed-loop orchestration, enabling customers to address the complexities associated with intersection of problem and change management.”

From the number of releases in recent years with similar language, it becomes clear that EMC was out to utilize an acquisition-based approach to build a tightly integrated framework to enable customers to proactively monitor and manage their complex IT infrastructures.  Certainly an interesting approach, though no points for originality.  No need to actually write any software.  Just acquire 6 different software companies any glue it all together.  How wonderful for the customers that are early adopters of this visionary approach!  This storage vendor can now emulate the acquire-versus-innovate approach of the Big 4 to deliver another piecemeal-derived framework.

Except, they have now decided to break it all apart and split it up between VMware and EMC.  EMC will keep Smarts and Voyence and VMware will pick up Infra, ConfigureSoft, FastScale and nLayers.  Now what exactly do we interpret from all this?  The strategy didn’t make sense in the first place?  Network management and application management don’t belong together?  There is no need to have a comprehensive and holistic service management solution for complex IT infrastructures?  Storage providers do not understand IT Service Management?  It’s harder to tie together disparate code sets that it at first appeared?

Nah, I’m sure that is just my humble perspective.  I am sure some marketing and PR brain child will explain how this is all part of the master vision to do something that somehow makes a lot of sense.

Cheers!

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