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Will Windows 7 drive client management software adoption?: 11/18/09; Forrester Research survey data shows that Microsoft currently leads in client management software among those polled, and the vendor’s latest operating system could continue to drive adoption.
The good, the bad and the ugly of DNS security on the Internet: 11/16/09; The Measurement Factory’s fifth annual DNS Survey results show an increasing number of name servers on the Internet that are vulnerable to distributed denial of service attacks.
Could server management headaches lead to higher adoption of managed hosted services?: 11/10/09; Rackspace commissioned survey shows that many companies struggle to manage their in-house servers and could consider managed hosting, cloud computing and e-mail hosting alternatives in the coming years.
IT service management industry celebrates 20 years of ITIL best practices: 11/09/09; The IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL, turns 20 this year after launching in 1989 in the U.K. Now American IT departments and vendors embrace the best practice import.
Cisco, EMC and VMware coalition nets unified management software for virtual, cloud environments: 11/03/09; EMC Ionix portfolio provides integrated, unified element manager for Vblock as part of Cisco, EMC and VMware coalition established to enable collaboration among the IT vendors.
Cash in on free IT management software for a limited time only: 11/01/09; Software makers offer scaled-down versions of their commercial management applications for free, hoping to draw customers into a bigger sale.
Economy plays a role in decisions around migrating to Microsoft Windows 7: 10/28/09; Microsoft’s release of Windows 7 could drive IT managers to update outdated operating systems and aging hardware, but many considerations must be addressed before undertaking a major software deployment – especially during difficult economic times.
IT management nirvana: Monitoring physical and virtual environments in one console: 10/26/09; CA introduces Spectrum Service Assurance 1.1, the vendor’s latest management application designed to ease the challenge of monitoring virtual and physical infrastructure to support IT services and guarantee optimal performance.
Managing IT assets where they live: 10/21/09; Nimsoft upgrades its Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to extend monitoring and historical reporting from the virtualized data center to hosted, cloud and SaaS resources and applications.
SaaS-y start-up amps up its application performance management software: 10/19/09; New Relic introduces RPM Version 2, application performance management software designed to keep Ruby on Rails apps in check and now including features to manage Java applications as well.
Why Compuware acquiring Gomez matters to the IT management software market: 10/14/09; Compuware’s pending Gomez buy proves end-user perspective is required for a complete application performance management picture and further validates SaaS in the IT management software market.
Tackling IT service management from a smartphone: 10/12/09; AlarmPoint Systems broadens integration with HP by enables its AlarmPoint Express and Mobile Gateway products to work directly with HP Service Manager software.
Tracking application performance virtually everywhere: 10/07/09; NetScout enhances its nGenius agent technology to perform packet-flow monitoring and analysis in virtual computing environments.
Privileged user management: Who is watching the watchers?: 10/05/09; Companies such as BeyondTrust, Cloakware, Cyber-Ark, e-DMZ and Lieberman Software offer products that helps security managers put safeguards in place so no one administrator holds too much power in the IT environment.
Applications managed from the end-user perspective: 09/29/09; OpTier introduces Experience Manager to help enterprise IT managers more quickly get to the root cause of application performance management problems impacting the end-user experience.
Start-up offers net management Fisher-Price style: 09/28/09; Canada-based start-up Vineyard Networks developed NetCore to help small and midsize enterprises take on network and systems management with ease and without a big capital investment.
Hotel giant cuts costs with smarter desktop management: 09/22/09; ScriptLogic Desktop Authority enables Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to manage global desktop configuration and policies from a central location while enable on-site IT professionals to control local settings.
EMC expands configuration management for virtualized data centers: 09/21/09; EMC Ionix Data Center Insight is designed to help enterprise IT managers gather configuration data and apply best practices to establishing configuration management
Seattle Children’s Hospital seeks IT management cure with CA software: 09/16/09; Seattle Children’s Hospital puts CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager and CA eHealth Performance Manager to work monitoring application performance from the end-user perspective.
Virtualization, end-user experience and the management conundrum: 09/13/09; Yankee Group paper analyzes how virtualization challenges traditional IT management tools and demands a new approach, dubbed IT management 2.0.
NetScout delivers deep packet analysis in smaller package: 09/09/09; NetScout’s InfiniStream 2900 Series offers customers a lower capacity, compact form-factor appliance to extend deep packet analysis to the network edge.
IT managers plan high-tech spending: 09/07/09; Spiceworks survey of 1,130 IT managers at small and midsize businesses shows a majority intend to invest budgets dollars in hardware, software and staff in the next six months.
Healthcare organization manages systems, IT costs with Compuware: 09/02/09; New Hanover Regional Medical Center improves performance and manages costs by deploying Compuware Vantage and Changepoint applications.
Managing storage as part of the virtual strategy: 08/28/09; Virtual systems management software maker Veeam updates backup and replication product to enable IT managers to better and more easily backup and restore virtual environments.
Virtual systems management vendors gear up for VMworld: 08/25/09; Embotics and Surgient separately upgrade product suites to showcase at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco.