I work as architect for the application and middleware management part of Oracle Enterprise Manager. My focus is on creating the best possible IT management solution that is driven by the needs and capabilities of the applications. This blog covers that area as well as a wider range of related topics, such as virtualization, automation, modeling, ITSM, BSM, BTM, standards, SOA, cloud computing, semantic Web and Web technologies. The places where these threads intersect is where most of the potential for dramatically increased business benefits from IT resides. In this entry I tried to explain the tagline for this blog, “IT management in a changing IT world”.
Before coming to Oracle in 2007, I worked in HP’s software division for nine years, on a variety of products ranging from high resolution imaging (OpenPix) to middleware (e-speak, Bluestone, HP-AS) and, for the last five years, systems management. There, as a “distinguished technologist” in the BTO group (previously known as OpenView) I combined architectural and standard-related activities. On the latter side, I managed the software standards strategy and was directly involved in many Web services and management-related standard efforts. Towards the end of my HP tenure, I was focusing on the CMDB product, called Universal CMDB.
My work email address follows the firstname.lastname@oracle.com format. My personal email address is my first name @vambenepe.com. I am @vambenepe on Twitter. You can also call me (if you’re game for a small challenge).
I started this blog because I love to receive comment spam. I think it contains a form of popular art waiting to emerge.
And of course the views I express on this site are mine and not necessarily those of my employer.