Category Archives: BMC

Everything BMC Related

Report from the Pink 14 Launch Site

By Dick Stark The 19th annual Pink Elephant Conference, held February 16 to19 in Las Vega, is IT’s annual tribute and awards ceremony to all things ITIL. It’s fun and entertaining–words, not often found in the same sentence as ITIL. … Continue reading

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Report from BMC’s Exchange

By Dick Stark BMC’s Exchange, held last Thursday at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Pentagon City, was well attended by more than 250 customers, prospects, and partners. Sessions held all day covered topics such as Cloud, ITSM, Data Center Automation, and Performance … Continue reading

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Living the Dreamforce 2013

By Dick Stark I virtually attended several of the Dreamforce keynotes held this week in San Francisco.  Hard to believe but this year’s Dreamforce had 135,000 attendees, making it the largest software conference in the world. Salesforce is now 15 … Continue reading

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ServiceNow: No Real Competition?

By Dick Stark “Our customers are actually frustrated because it’s tough to negotiate with a vendor who doesn’t have much competition” — ServiceNow CEO Frank Slootman, reported in The Street, August 2, 2013 ServiceNow (SNOW) is on a roll and … Continue reading

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IT Service Management in the Cloud

By Dick Stark Last Thursday, I attended a panel discussion sponsored by the National Capital Area itSMF user group.  The topic: IT Service Management in the Cloud. Paul Alberti, from FEMA’s Office of the CIO, led  the discussion with representatives … Continue reading

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RightStar’s Practical Remedy Exam

By Dick Stark We attended an “orals” this week held at a local government agency.  We teamed with an 8(a) company to compete for Remedy implementation and consulting work for this very large Remedy account. The oral competition included a … Continue reading

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RightStar’s New FootPrints MSP Offering

By Dick Stark RightStar has officially enter the Managed Service Provider (MSP) business, offering FootPrints in a managed service, or hosted model, rather than on the customer’s own premises. Why would a customer do this, rather than move to a … Continue reading

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The New Digital Age

By Dick Stark “I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: Plastics.” –Career advice given to Dustin Hoffman in the movie, “The Graduate” If Ben Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman) were to graduate in 2013 instead … Continue reading

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I’m All-In!

By Dick Stark “We are the Viet Cong. We are going to march 50 miles in truck tire sandals on a bowl of rice, and we’ll sleep in a tree and get up the next morning and do it again. … Continue reading

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MyIT: Empowering Your End-Users

By Dick Stark “I’d rather not try our help desk.  I can get what I want from Google.” Sound familiar?  A customer confided this to me after attempting to access her service desk’s automated knowledge base. Oftentimes, the experience that … Continue reading

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