How does MOM 2005 relate to the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), Microsoft’s long term management strategy?
DSI is an industry-wide initiative led by Microsoft aimed at delivering software that maximizes resources and decreases labor costs across the entire IT life cycle by designing manageability into all components. By driving operational requirements back into IT systems at design time, a strong connection can be created between system design through operation of IT systems, and ultimately the end users using the business applications. MOM 2005 is a key component of DSI, and the development of MOM management packs by the application developers is an example of ‘designing for operations’, a pillar of DSI. Q3: If I have another operations management solution, do I still need MOM? Managing the Microsoft components is an important subset of managing a heterogeneous enterprise. Integration between the Microsoft management tools and third party corporate-wide management systems is necessary to proactively manage and maintain the entire IT environment. To simplify and facilitate integration with
