As the organizers announced yesterday, Austin will soon be the home of the first barcampESM. “ESM” being Enterprise Systems Management, though I’d suggest not to get too hung up on “enterprise” and exclude yourself if you feel more SME than E.
I talked with the three orginizors yesterday (BMC’s whurley, Zenoss’ Mark Hinkle, and exciting new IT management blogger and Tivoli-head John Willis) and the premise sounds fun: getting together customer, developers, and others from the IT management community to sort out desires, interoperability, and otherwise have a sort of barcamp-style summit about the space. The over-all goal is to try and kick-start stronger, open and connected community in the IT management space. That’s key at this point for the industry as a whole (look for some interesting commentary from John Willis on that topic in an upcoming RedMonkTV episode.)
What I’m interested in is getting together people from different IT management silos (by vendor, scope, open, closed, etc.) and seeing them connect together. Put another way: let’s see what all these folks want and are thinking of. Let’s get Big Picture.
BarCampESM will be user driven. I’m calling all who have complaints about systems management to present your ideas and solutions to an audience that can actually do something about them. This IS NOT about getting the latest, greatest demo from your friendly neighborhood enterprise sales person. This is one attendee, one voice. Ask the tough questions to your community leaders, and then we’ll work together to address our users needs for a change.
The date isn’t set yet, but if you’re into IT management, I’d keep your eye on the event. What with BMC and IBM Tivoli being in town, along with a slew of other IT management folks like AlterPoint, NetQoS, Spiceworks, Fiveruns, and others I’d expect a nice turn-out. And the attendee list, even at this early point, has several people it’ll be fun to hang out with.
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