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Oracle launches Fusion Middleware 11g: Oracle will unveil a major chunk of Fusion Middleware 11g, the foundation for its next-generation Fusion Applications, during an event in Washington,...

Virtuoso travel network picks Liquid Computing for data center: Virtuoso, an online network for luxury travel, chose a unified computing infrastructure from Liquid Computing instead of shopping for the technology...

Hosting Firms Have New Answer to 'I Want My Own Server': Virtualization is great and all, but sometimes a customer just wants their own server. For many companies, however, off-the-shelf servers are too...

Efficiency and Cost Control in Managing Network and Application Management WHITE PAPER: Today's connected businesses depend on reliable and predictable access to the application servers, data storage, and partner ecosystems which...

Can you manage an iPhone like a BlackBerry?: Users love the iPhone, but IT does not. The biggest complaints: The iPhone can't be managed for security and access policies like a BlackBerry can....

The Cloud as Innovation Platform: Early Examples: I am privileged to serve as co-chair of the Cloud Services SIG for a Silicon Valley-based non-profit, the SDForum, which is a great resource for...

No virtualization skills? Better get started: Virtualization know-how is becoming a standard requirement across IT disciplines.

How WatchGuard Could Have Saved Hannaford and TJX Money: Real-World ROI Calculations for Retail Network Security Solutions WHITE PAPER: What is the actual dollar value of stronger network security? We don't mean hypothetically; we're talking about documented cases of network attacks...

The Great Virtualization Management and Migration Tools Race: Third-party virtualization companies appear to be taking advantage of what are traditionally slow news weeks in the technology business by rushing...

Wine, Roses & Tax Breaks: States Woo Data Centers: Hit hard by the recession, several states are looking to server farms and cloud computing facilities to help them keep jobs in their territories. The...

IBM rolls out new enterprise cloud services push: IBM on Monday rolled out a new cloud-computing strategy aimed at large enterprises, formed around the notion of tying cloud services to specific IT...

Fort Wayne Cardiology Case Study WHITE PAPER: With the OptiView Series III Integrated Network Analyzer, the IT staff at Fort Wayne Cardiology are able to monitor traffic, diagnose problems, spot...

New Novell tool to link Linux management to Microsoft System Center: Novell next week plans to release yet another tool that is the product of its three-year-old integration agreement with Microsoft, this time a...

HP vs. Cisco: A Data Center Smackdown Looms?: Despite an overwhelming dominance of the networking business, Cisco has a target painted on its back, in the eyes of Hewlett-Packard.

Researchers Speed Up the Chase for Cooler Data Centers: With energy costs rising and data centers at the core of IT strategy for many companies, cooling the growing number of computers jammed into data...

Marketplace: Featured products and services from trusted System Management vendors; Partner Content

NetScout and analyst Jim Metzler have teamed to deliver a series of IT Briefs on Network and Application Performance Management leveraging research from NetScout's nGenius & Sniffer users.

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Metzler on Service Delivery Management

Delivering IT business value by evolving our thinking from managing application performance to focusing on services.

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2009 Handbook of Application Delivery

Successful IT organizations must know how to make the right application delivery decisions in these tough economic times.

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Metzler on the Modern IP Network

Discusses the growing emphasis on network management and the need to implement a holistic view of the end-to-end experience of the user.

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