MOM 2005 sells itself .. as long as I can get my customers to look at it
Practically any one in my accounts, who has a significant investment in Microsoft server products and who has seen a demo of MOM 2005, just loves it and wants to evaluate it immediately. Why? They, mostly IBM Tivoli shops, love the MOM Connector Framework, which is "a Web service-based technology for connecting MOM to any third-party management platform, enabling full bidirectional alert forwarding and synchronization for increased management capabilities for medium and large enterprises with heterogeneous environments." "Medium/large enterprises with heterogeneous environments" -- yup, that's what I deal with every day! My customers also love the increased scalability (2000 managed devices per server), the new Operator Console, the new Nested Computer Groups, and the new Instance-Aware Monitoring (great for SQL Server and Virtual Server).
My problem, of course, is getting customers to take even just 30 minutes to see MOM 2005 in action though using Live Meeting is starting to help immensely. But, I still have to coordinate it with the customer, and it takes me away from focusing on other opportunities.
Now, thanks to the TechNet Virtual Lab for MOM 2005, any one can evaluate MOM on their own time whenever they want and without the need for any hardware. The Virtual Lab uses Virtual Server 2005, which is another product that practically sells itself, so getting my customers to use the Virtual Lab enables me to very efficiently pitch two key products at the same time. I wish my job can be this easy all the time.
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