RiverMuse Core 4.2 offers a number of enhancements including ‘agentless’ monitoring infrastructure (Ping Agent), support for distributed rules processing to enhance business logic scalability (parserd), and real time event history replay for advanced diagnostics.
 
In 4.2, RiverMuse has optimized the core database to have higher scalability and a lower footprint.
 
Now supporting multi-mode desktop operations, the RiverMuse Core 4.2 desktop also includes the “Events” option providing launch-in-context tools for (better/greater) incident orientated web 2.0 collaborative workflow.
 
RiverMuse Core 4.2 allows you to interface seamlessly to web services enabled infrastructure as demonstrated by the java based event simulator that is now included as part of the RiverMuse API suite.

RiverMuse Core 4.2 is still the only enterprise class community OSS platform focused at reducing the 80% of time to value, which derives from the configuration of business logic.

RiverMuse Core 4.2 is the only enterprise-class Open Source Software platform focused at reducing time to value by over 80%. It achieves this through massive simplification in the way events are captured, alerts are processed and in turn enriched through the use of dynamic variables. All of these actions are configured centrally using a single SQL-like language. Go to the download page for RiverMuse 4.2.

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We loved your post and thanks for reading the Telesperience blog Microsperience!

We believe that even though we’re now officially post-crunch in telecoms, many CSPs have taken a good, long and hard look at how they buy and consume software. Interest in open source software by CSPs of all sizes is definitely on the increase. As you know, one of the “dirty little secrets” of the telecoms industry has been that open source tech can be found in virtually all CSPs’ IT stacks at some level – in fact many ISVs have been using it to lower their own costs for years while still publicly keeping on-message that it’s not really suitable for mission-critical BSS-OSS.

Our research has shown, however, that this situation is changing fast. Partly this is because a new generation of open source solutions like yours (not just technology or tools), are coming to market, and partly because CSPs in many markets are faced with having to do more with less. So to fund innovation they need to look hard at their cost base and reduce waste in the BSSOSS, using these savings to finance new projects.

We’ve also found that interest in open source tech is higher in the telecoms vertical than in other highly transactive industries. We recently asked a range of different types of large companies from telecoms, banking, automotive, computing/IT and government sectors whether they’d consider using open source technology. Eighteen per cent told us they were already using it, 9% are actively investigating using it, 55% said they would not rule out the possibility and 18% said they had no plans to use it. In a separate study we asked just telecoms SPs the same question and this found that, like the previous study, 18% were already using it. However, in contrast 27% were actively investigating using it, 46% would not rule out using it and only 9% said they had no plans to use it. This shows that telcos are more advanced in utilizing or evaluating open source solutions than the average enterprise.

Not only is interest in open source solutions high in the telecoms vertical but we discovered interesting trends amongst those adopting it. The (uninformed) consensus is that CSP adopt open source to lower costs. In fact, although this was certainly why many were attracted to open source initially, it’s not why they stayed. Far more attractive to them than just lower costs was the fact that many open source solutions are built using the most up-to-date technology available, and that they were capability-rich due to the sheer speed of innovation.

My advice to CSPs is therefore to not get hung up on what is essentially an alternative business model, but instead to evaluate open source solutions on exactly the same basis as any other software. One of the big hang ups in the telecoms software market has been that many CSPs are wary of being held hostage by a single vendor, and also that they realize that differentiation is increasingly going to come from software not networks. Open source seems to have a strong message for this fear – take control of your own destiny and don’t just accept a generic one-size fits all offering. There’s some really good software out there in the market today. Some of it is from ISVs and some from open source vendors. There’s no single ‘best’ solution for everyone – you have to evaluate the stand-out offerings against your own individual needs. What I’m saying is that dismissing a solution just because its open source is dumb and, if you take a look at the stats above, it’s certainly not what your rivals are doing.

Teresa Cottam

Research Director, Telesperience

We are delighted that NetworkWorld have named RiverMuse as one of their top 10 IT management start up’s to watch in their annual review announced today.

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18^th November 2009: Today, RiverMuse welcomes Rich Green to its Board of Directors as well as Con Blackett and Matt Asay to the company’s Advisory Board. In their respective roles they will provide counsel to the RiverMuse leadership team, advise on strategic initiatives according to their relative expertise, as well as assist in forging new industry relations. This elite group adds deep industry knowledge and leadership to RiverMuse and complements its premier line up.

JL Valente, CEO and President at RiverMuse, said: “For a company aiming as high as we are it was imperative to attract a crack team of world class business and technology leaders. I have no doubt that these three industry heavyweights, with their collective experience, will enrich RiverMuse and help propel us to the next level.”

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Rich Green joins the RiverMuse Board of Directors. Green brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the open source and proprietary software sectors. A veteran of the Silicon Valley software industry, Green joined Sun Microsystems in 1989 where he held a variety of roles, including Vice President and General Manager of Solaris and Java during which he led the creation of JavaEE and JavaME. He went on to become Sun’s Executive Vice President of Software responsible for its entire software product, service and support business. Currently Executive Vice President of the Mobile and Enterprise business at Nuance Communications, Green is also a member of the Foundation Board of the University at Albany (N.Y.) and a co-founder and board member of Freshbrain.org.

Matt Asay joins the RiverMuse Advisory Board. Asay’s journey on the open source road began in 1998 and he has since achieved guru status as one of the industry’s leading open source business strategists. In 2003 he founded the Open Source Business Conference – a premier open source strategy event – and served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Thomas Weisel Venture Partners where he focused on open source investment opportunities. In addition to his RiverMuse advisory post, Asay regularly writes on CNET’s open source blog: http://cnet.com/openroad and manages global business development for Alfresco, an open source Content Application Server vendor. Prior to Alfresco, Asay was part of Novell’s Linux Business Office.

Con Blackett joins the RiverMuse Advisory Board. Principle of IT service management operations at BT until recently, Blackett possesses top business acumen and weighty technical skills in network and systems management, collected over 25 years across Europe and North America. A true industry veteran of the telecom industry, Blackett is regarded by many as a prime influencer and his Midas touch has aided the futures of dominating products such as HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli. Interestingly, Blackett was also responsible for the first ever implementation of Netcool (from Micromuse) at BT- worldwide.