http://www.networkworld.com/topics/management.html The latest network and systems management news and analysis from NetworkWorld.com Network World, Inc. Copyright(C) 1994 - 2010 Network World, Inc. http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2010/020810nsm2.html IT service management vendor Digital Fuel finds high-tech leaders ready to revamp processes and get IT cost management best practices in place. Denise Dubie 2010-02-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2010/020810id2.html Recently I had the opportunity to chat with two of the more knowledgeable people in the Privileged User Management (PUM -- sometimes called Privileged Identity Management, PIM) space -- Phil Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software and Shlomi Dinoor, vice president of emerging technologies, Cyber-Ark Labs. Dave Kearns 2010-02-09T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2010/ndc1/020810-ndc-carney.html Plying the world’s oceans may seem an odd start for someone who now oversees data center planning at one of the world’s financial powerhouses, but that’s precisely Jim Carney’s professional pedigree. Beth Schultz 2010-02-08T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2010/ndc1/020810-ndc-management.html With a state-of-the-art data center recently opened in Atlanta, PricewaterhouseCoopers is on the prowl for a few good people. The challenge looms just about as large as the 80,000-square-foot building housing the IT infrastructure. Beth Schultz 2010-02-08T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2010/ndc1/020810-ndc-skills.html "For people with the right skills and the right attitude, this is a fantastic time to be in the data center space," says Dwight Gibbs, senior vice president of technology at Input, a Reston, Va., market intelligence firm. Beth Schultz 2010-02-08T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2010/020810nsm1.html Papa John’s uses open source IT management platform OpenNMS to monitoring its online ordering system, which is expected to fulfill orders for 750,000 pizzas, or 6 millions slices, and about 1 million wings for Super Bowl XLIV. Denise Dubie 2010-02-08T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/techexec/2010/020810bestpractices.html Ascent Media Group has deployed an enterprise SIEM system that provides deep insight to what's happening on its network that spans 60 semi-independent companies and 40 locations around the world. A single console in California provides alerts on problems that are happening half a world away. Linda Musthaler 2010-02-04T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/dir/2010/020110id2.html Last issue we touched on a new definition for identity. Today I'd like to present the definitive view of the first, both historically as well as in the context of adding identity and access management (IAM) to your organization. User provisioning has been called the "killer app" for identity management. It started us down the road to IdM over a dozen years ago. In fact, we almost take it for granted today. But what does it involve, what does it imply, and why does it matter? 2010-02-02T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/nsm/2010/020110nsm2.html Start-up Cloudkick launches its software-as-a-service management application to help IT systems administrators get a handle on managing servers in the cloud. Denise Dubie 2010-02-02T12:00:00-04:00 http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/020110-ema-gartner-burton.html Competition for enterprise IT customers is always fierce, as any industry analyst will tell you. But this week, the competition for customers is being waged by the analyst firms themselves. Jon Brodkin 2010-02-01T12:00:00-04:00