July 21, 2006
I will be on vacation until August 7. Upon my return I will encounter a change of scenery here. In the coming days the network and systems management research center will be undergoing a redesign -- to make it more useful, content-rich and easy to navigate. Stay tuned ...
July 18, 2006
Priscilla Milam, featured this week in Network World's Management Strategies section, didn't know networking was her calling from Day One. The current IT executive at the North Harris Montgomery Community College District in The Woodlands, Texas, says she started out part-time in the computer center back when she attended Texas A&M, then worked for the government and eventually found her way into the early days of networking.
July 17, 2006
Hyperic, a start-up with an affiliation toward open source, today released the source code for Hyperic HQ, a management software platform the company says can manage all commercial and open source IT assets.
July 14, 2006
HP's OpenView management software is popular among network managers, but company executives have been working to evolve its software to address more than restoring downed devices and watching network traffic.
July 13, 2006
IBM today unveiled software designed to manage security events from disparate network devices. The software is based on technology IBM acquired with Micromuse earlier this year, after Micromuse had purchased security information management (SIM) vendor GuardedNet last year.
July 12, 2006
Network managers accustomed to troubleshooting and firefighting network problems in real time may not always follow a pre-defined process to get critical tasks done day-to-day. But with regulatory compliance concerns and cost-cutting measures topping the minds of today's CIOs, network managers are taking advantage of the best practices laid out in the IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL, to ensure their efforts comply with processes.
July 11, 2006
Data center automation vendor Opsware is adding storage to the list of IT domains it can manage. The vendor today announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Boulder, Colo.-based Creekpath Systems for $10 million in a deal expected to close early next month.
July 10, 2006
Systems management and search start-up Splunk today made available a software add-on that will enable Nagios open source monitoring software users to more quickly pinpoint the source of performance problems.
July 07, 2006
Network and systems management IT projects tend to be massive undertakings that require long-term commitment across several IT departments. This year HP's OpenView management software business unit unveiled it had been selecting customer all-stars of sorts for their work in streamlining management systems.
July 06, 2006
A recent study by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows that the use of performance dashboards is on the rise, but that IT and business users could be deploying the technology in better ways.
June 30, 2006
A new draft standard at the IETF might make it possible for network managers to track IP performance between network devices without deploying hardware or software probes to monitor the traffic.
June 29, 2006
The technology that helps network managers collect data from multiple sources such as routers and servers is being put to use in a similar fashion by a start-up promising to correlate data in real time and alert business managers to potential problems in a supply chain or other business process.
June 27, 2006
IT managers have long been looking at statistics in various consoles, but today the concept of dashboards -- which pull data from many IT and business sources -- is appealing to more network managers needing to keep their finger on the pulse of network performance.
June 26, 2006
There will never be one approach to perfecting application performance across distributed enterprise networks. In fact, there are many methods network managers employ to get optimum performance out of their applications.
June 23, 2006
Blue Coat Systems, which this year upgraded its security and proxy technology with acceleration features, this week announced it would acquire the NetCache business from Network Appliance for about $24 million.
June 22, 2006
Hyperic, a maker of an open-source management platform, this week announced it has joined other open source advocates in their efforts to make using open source management tools in large enterprise networks easier.
June 21, 2006
Despite a once widespread belief that distributed systems could entirely displace mainframes in IT shops, companies such as Merrill Lynch refuse to abandon their legacy systems. And management software makers such as BMC, CA and IBM continue to service these customers with updated mainframe management tools.
June 20, 2006
CA today announced it has appointed Alan Nugent, the senior vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Systems Management Business Unit, to the position of CTO. Nugent will be stepping in where former CTO Mark Barrenechea created a void after leaving the software company to pursue a new role in the venture-capital world.
June 19, 2006
HP this week at its annual HP Software Forum user conference in Miami will showcase new tools to help IT managers plan for future projects, manage assets, discover applications and collect network device configuration data.
June 15, 2006
Converged networks are becoming more commonplace, and as the trend to run voice applications over IP networks continues to flourish, the approach to managing performance evolves. As VoIP adoption grows, network managers’ need for tools has grown beyond monitoring device availability to fine-tuning voice application and service performance.
June 13, 2006
Application management itself represents a challenge to network managers. Add to that the loosely coupled nature of service-oriented architecture-based (SOA) applications and the management burden grows exponentially.
June 12, 2006
Deploying network and systems management software is not a quick and easy task, as even most vendors will admit. One of the ways to lessen the burden of implementing software to manage distributed devices could be to instill more management features in the hardware itself.
June 08, 2006
HP this week dabbled in the network configuration management market with a licensing deal to package Voyence's technology as HP OpenView Network Configuration Manager.
June 07, 2006
Not even a month after EMC announced it had used nLayers technology in its Application Discovery Manager (ADM) appliance, EMC today made public that it acquired the privately-held application discovery and mapping company.
June 06, 2006
Hyperic, a start-up that has roots in open source, today decided to make its commercial management software -- Hyperic HQ -- available under an open source license.
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