Management Notes archives
By Denise Dubie, NetworkWorld.com
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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June 05, 2006
Maintaining remote offices without IT staff on hand can pose many challenges, but vendors such as NetBotz are addressing this issue by selling sensors that...
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June 02, 2006
CA seemed to be on track to put its scandalous accounting past behind it -- that is until this past week when the software maker...
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June 01, 2006
Does it seem like every time you turn around your management software maker has acquired another company or technology?...
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May 31, 2006
TeaLeaf this week announced it has upgraded its online application management software to better capture the customer experience....
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May 26, 2006
Following in the footsteps of competitors BMC and HP, IBM this week upgraded its Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database to now support a federated...
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May 25, 2006
Security management vendor ArcSight this week announced it would acquire network management start-up Enira Technologies. The coupling could, in theory, equip enterprise IT customers with...
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May 24, 2006
Network managers are tasked with a new challenge: perfecting the end-user experience. Because of this, tools to capture what happens on client machines are becoming...
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May 22, 2006
Network analysis vendor WildPackets last week launched a series of Webinars the company says will provide attendees with tools to better perform Wi-Fi analysis, VoIP...
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May 19, 2006
This week the OpenNMS Project released results of its participation in a proof-of-concept that demonstrated how open source network management applications could work in conjunction...
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May 18, 2006
IBM today announced it would acquire a Swiss software maker to fill a gap in its Tivoli systems management product portfolio. Rembo Technology will help...
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May 17, 2006
Network managers looking for ways to deliver better application performance to wide-area users probably should take a look at recent developments in bandwidth management....
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May 16, 2006
To really manage performance of network and application environments, industry watchers say, you have to first know what you're dealing with -- meaning you need...
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May 15, 2006
Oftentimes when network managers are debating the pros and cons of rolling out open source products enterprisewide, the issues of support and ongoing development stop...
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May 12, 2006
Citrix this week announced it had acquired privately-held Reflectent Software, a software vendor that focuses on application performance management to the desktop....
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May 11, 2006
Open source seems to be where it's at this week in the network and systems management market. Earlier this week a group of vendors announced...
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May 10, 2006
Network access control, or NAC, technologies offer network managers a means to protect their networks from viruses, worms, unwanted guests and potentially compliance violations. But...
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May 09, 2006
Open source products continue to flourish and the diversity of tools available continues to grow. For instance, last week at Interop, companies such as Vyatta...
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May 04, 2006
It's no secret that Interop attendees are often shopping -- or at the very least browsing -- for new technology to solve an IT problem...
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May 04, 2006
According to one tipster at Interop and a report in an online Israeli publication, HP is in the process of acquiring Mercury Interactive. Both companies...
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May 03, 2006
Launched at last year's Interop conference, the Apdex Alliance this year continues its work toward developing a standard measurement for application performance from the end-user...
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May 02, 2006
Splunk this week at Interop is set to announce a partnership with CA that industry watchers say can help IT managers more quickly determine the...
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April 30, 2006
Network managers have long known they need to keep up with application performance and more vendors are adding application intelligence to their monitoring tools to...
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April 28, 2006
Attachmate this week announced its intentions to acquire NetIQ, a maker of systems and security management software....
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April 27, 2006
Avocent, a KVM switch provider and maker of management tools for remote server administration, today announced it would acquire LANDesk Software, which focuses on systems...
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April 26, 2006
Desktop search could be the productivity tool your company needs, but the sometimes-free software applications can also pose a security threat in terms of data...
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April 25, 2006
Former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar pleaded guilty yesterday to financial fraud charges in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, according to reports in The Wall Street...
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April 24, 2006
CA this week made available for free Unicenter Database Command Center, a scaled down version of its enterprise-class distributed database management product. The offer could...
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April 20, 2006
On the heels of competitors, CA announced this week the company would join forces with BMC, Fujitsu, HP and IBM to hammer out a standard...
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April 20, 2006
Remember that classic Reese's commercial? You know the one in which two guys just strolling along bump into each other and one says, "Hey you...
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April 19, 2006
A start-up company says it has the solution to many IT managers' problem: cross-platform automated change and configuration management software for heterogeneous data centers....
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April 18, 2006
For management vendors, CMDB technology is all the rage right now. If you don't have a product that focuses on this tenet of the IT...
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April 17, 2006
Many desktop search tools are free to download, which could mean your end-users are currently loading their machines with the software. And without set internal...
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April 14, 2006
It's hard to resist freebies, especially when it comes to enterprise management software. But industry watchers and savvy network managers say today's complex networks require...
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April 13, 2006
CA intends to remain among the top vendors offering mainframe management. The company this week announced it would acquire Cybermation in a $75 million deal...
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April 13, 2006
Venture capital firms are putting their money on network monitoring and troubleshooting tools in an effort to upset the market leaders -- BMC, CA, HP...
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April 11, 2006
BMC, Fujitsu, HP and IBM today announced they would work together toward developing an interoperability specification that would enable customers to share configuration information among...
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April 10, 2006
Cisco this week upped the ante in the application acceleration market with the release of a new product geared toward consolidating multiple WAN optimization functions...
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April 07, 2006
Recently in Network World industry analyst Frank Dzubeck looked at a wide array of bandwidth management products and discussed why the technology won't go away...
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April 06, 2006
If all the news articles, product announcements and marketing hype around the application acceleration market had you wondering if the market was for real, you...
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April 05, 2006
Cittio -- a management software maker that intends to challenge the likes of BMC, CA, HP and IBM -- recently received more venture capital funding...
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April 04, 2006
Network managers are more than familiar with Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and are adept at using command line interfaces (CLI) to get to management...
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April 03, 2006
This week at the LinuxWorld Boston conference, more than 200 vendors are expected to exhibit and some plan to announce products -- among them a...
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March 31, 2006
Reports show that IT budgets will be growing -- albeit moderately -- in 2006. IDC, SG Cowen and Forrester Research separately reported that spending is...
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March 30, 2006
AmberPoint, maker of Web services and services-oriented architecture (SOA) management and security products, this week garnered another $10.3 million in venture capital funding, bringing its...
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March 29, 2006
A recent study released by the Society of Information Management (SIM) shows that IT jobs continue to be in demand -- but with a twist....
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March 28, 2006
In the wake of BMC's announcement that it would acquire Identify Software, Goldman Sachs distributed a research paper discussing the deal and its potential for...
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March 27, 2006
BMC today announced its plans to acquire Identify Software, a vendor whose technology is designed to help companies spot application performance problems down to the...
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March 24, 2006
Ever wonder if the IT challenge you're tackling is similar to that of others? Earlier this week at Network World's IT Roadmap conference, I briefly...
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March 23, 2006
While network managers work to get their multiple management tools integrated, inevitably somewhere within one of several industry standards bodies, there is a team of...
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March 22, 2006
This week Network World hosted the IT Roadmap conference in its hometown of Boston that welcomed some 500 attendees and featured some real world IT...
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March 21, 2006
Enterprise network managers that tackle change management understand how critical it is to incorporate automation technologies into the process....
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March 19, 2006
Network managers are becoming more and more responsible for application performance all the way down to the end-user desktop, and the new set of responsibilities...
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March 17, 2006
Network managers encounter new roadblocks when looking to guarantee performance over the WAN. The tips and tricks that may apply to the local area sometimes...
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March 16, 2006
Over the past few years, major network and systems management vendors have been acquiring niche players to fill out their product suites, and in the...
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March 15, 2006
Next week at Network World's IT Roadmap Conference in Boston, Jim Mass, network monitoring engineer at Fresenius Medical Care in Lexington, Mass., will share his...
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March 14, 2006
As the world faces the threat of a widespread outbreak of the avian flu, network managers (such as Priceline CIO Ron Rose) scattered throughout the...
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March 13, 2006
Network management technologies have long been able to monitor health and availability of distributed devices. The challenge now, according to a slew of network managers,...
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March 10, 2006
Keeping 100 university departments connected requires some savvy management techniques. Harvard University's Jay Tumas, network operations manager, approaches that challenge with a combination of homegrown...
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March 09, 2006
This week Network World added another resource to this online research center: links to management software user groups....
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March 08, 2006
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library, or ITIL for short, is no longer a new concept among IT managers, but interest in the best practice framework...
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March 07, 2006
Elemental Security this week updated its flagship policy management software with capabilities the company says will safeguard customers against security breaches as well as prepare...
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March 03, 2006
IBM recently announced it would be slimming down various applications within its Tivoli management software to offer easy-to-install, operate and maintain products to small and...
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March 02, 2006
At JPMorgan Chase, the business and technology groups work closely together to ensure their systems can handle the demands of their fast-paced business. The company...
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March 01, 2006
Speeding application traffic across WAN links is a growing concern for network managers as workforces become more remote and data center consolidation continues to drive...
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February 28, 2006
HP, which has historically gotten a lot of heat for not better incorporating its management software across product divisions or promoting it as well as...
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February 27, 2006
Despite a changing landscape of vendors in the past 10 years, the demand for outsourced IT management services hasn't gone away. Managed service providers emerged...
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February 24, 2006
Next week Network World is hosting an online forum (which I am moderating) among application acceleration and WAN optimization vendors....
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February 23, 2006
If you've ever wanted a blow-by-blow description of making the best practices of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) work in an enterprise environment directly...
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February 22, 2006
Financial services firms tend to be on the bleeding edge of new technologies, considering the hectic pace their IT systems must maintain to keep up...
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February 21, 2006
In a Network World video interview, CA's Alan Nugent, senior vice president and general manager of the software company's Unicenter line, took the "Hot Seat"...
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February 17, 2006
IBM said this week it is working to address a security vulnerability discovered in its Tivoli Directory Server software....
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February 16, 2006
What do you do after you've led one of the most successful management software start-ups in technology history and changed the way IBM did management?...
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February 15, 2006
This week in Network World Senior Editor Jennifer Mears and I shared stories we gathered from network managers about strange, weird or simply silly end...
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February 14, 2006
Opsware this week announced it has entered into a partnership with Cisco that would have Opsware's Network Automation System distributed under the Cisco brand and...
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February 13, 2006
This week's RSA Conference is attracting all types of vendors, many promising that their technology can deliver an extra layer of security to enterprise networks....
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February 10, 2006
Identity management technology didn't get its start under the direction of the big four management software makers, but BMC, CA, HP and IBM are certainly...
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February 09, 2006
This week's Demo 2006 conference in Phoenix is highlighting the latest in technologies from security vendors such as StrikeForce Technology to innovations in speedy food...
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February 08, 2006
Symantec continues to expand its horizons. This week the vendor delves into the realm of automated data center change and configuration management with its announced...
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February 07, 2006
With next week's RSA Conference in San Jose, the talk among several management vendors has turned to security....
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February 06, 2006
Network General, maker of the Sniffer brand of network packet analysis tools, today announced it has acquired Fidelia, maker of NetVigil software for monitoring infrastructure...
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February 03, 2006
With all the talk of best practices, more companies are taking the time to measure their process maturity....
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February 02, 2006
Not sure if you should roll out APM, BSM, ITSM or SLM?...
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February 01, 2006
As interest in and adoption of the ITIL framework peaks, industry watchers advise those bringing the best practices in house to take their time and...
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January 31, 2006
A recent survey of about 350 IT professionals revealed that 98% learn of Web site performance problems directly from end users. More than 50% of...
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January 30, 2006
Keeping its promises from last year's CA World user conference, CA this week made available two sets of products within its systems and security management...
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January 27, 2006
When deciding which devices to let on their networks, a majority of 500 IT managers surveyed admitted they had no set network access control policy....
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January 26, 2006
With all the talk of automation technologies, it's sometimes surprising to find many IT shops function by mostly manual means....
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January 25, 2006
IBM isn't afraid to spend money, especially when the company wants to take the lead in specific technologies -- such as network management....
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January 24, 2006
It's not new to network managers that they need to also be on top of application performance, and now that vendors have gotten the hint,...
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January 23, 2006
Network management isn’t a new challenge, but emerging applications, security risks and compliance demands could change how you tackle the all-encompassing task of ensuring peak...
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January 20, 2006
Quest Software released the results of a survey of some 600 IT specialists and found respondents believe application management software should address a broad spectrum...
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January 19, 2006
Recently I wrote a couple of newsletters about an industry analyst's research and perspective on why WAN performance optimization is becoming more critical for enterprise...
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January 18, 2006
LANDesk Software this week announced it had acquired a privately held business process management (BPM) software maker, which could help LANDesk automate workflows....
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January 17, 2006
Instilling best practices across your organization your new year's resolution?...
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January 13, 2006
CA this week announced it had acquired Control F1, a maker of automated support software for end-user devices. The terms of the deal were undisclosed....
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January 12, 2006
John Gerdelman, chairman of Intelliden, is getting some unwanted press for nothing having to do with the network configuration management vendor. His name has surfaced...
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January 11, 2006
In every job, there are must-have tools needed to get the job done. I have an idea of what those might be for network managers,...
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January 10, 2006
Mercury Interactive this week announced it would be acquiring Systinet, a maker of service-oriented architecture (SOA) software and services, a hot technology that could catapult...
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January 09, 2006
Salaries for network professionals haven't fluctuated much in the past year, according to a survey recently completed by management consulting firm Janco Associates....
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January 06, 2006
CA President and CEO John Swainson tells it like it is....
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January 05, 2006
CA today announced it had signed a deal to acquire application management software maker Wily Technology....
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January 04, 2006
When Cisco announces a new product strategy, people in networking pay attention regardless of who they are....
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January 03, 2006
IBM set the stage for the upcoming year when it last month announced plans to acquire Micromuse by the end of this quarter....
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December 23, 2005
A recent survey performed by Osterman Research and released by Exchange software management vendor Zenprise found that almost 50% of e-mail administrators will be working...
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December 22, 2005
Despite the industry's best efforts to bridge the gaps among various IT disciplines within an organization, a majority of network managers report that they still...
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December 21, 2005
IBM today announced it signed an agreement to acquire network management software maker Micromuse for $865 million....
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December 20, 2005
Network managers want to monitor application performance but fear data overload....
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December 19, 2005
IBM kicked off its integration plans for 2006 early....
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December 16, 2005
Cisco caused quite a stir of activity among industry watchers since announcing its plans last week to get into the management software market....
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December 15, 2005
As more companies look to align their internal processes with best practices such as ITIL, vendors and service providers must also step up and familiarize...
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December 13, 2005
More American companies are looking to adopt the best practice framework borrowed from the Brits....
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December 13, 2005
HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) has long been a favorite among network managers and recently a comparative test of the network management software proved...
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December 12, 2005
Oftentimes the downside of implementing tools to manage your network is the cost and complexity of the software needed....
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December 09, 2005
It's moving to NAPA....
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December 08, 2005
A recent survey by Exchange management software maker Zenprise revealed that companies with more than 5,000 employees are spending more than $1 million annually to...
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December 07, 2005
A recent poll of more than 300 network managers at large enterprises found that the majority wants to see more automation features in their management...
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December 06, 2005
Fluke Networks, maker of network testing software, WAN management tools and handheld protocol analyzers, last week announced it had agreed to buy network and application...
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December 05, 2005
Network managers are finally ready to make the leap from reactive monitoring to proactive management -- and one key factor in that decision is the...
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December 02, 2005
You cannot get too much free stuff....
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December 01, 2005
CA is going to acquire an application management vendor in 2006, maybe even sooner....
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November 30, 2005
HP today announced it was buying the federated identity management company with which it last year signed a licensing agreement....
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November 29, 2005
This week in Network World we pulled together a special package of stories that provide tips on hardware, software, careers and more....
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November 28, 2005
Citigroup has tens of thousands of network devices....
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November 14, 2005
CA's been here for years -- but not like this. The problem Computer Associates has had in the past few years involved more cleaning up...
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November 14, 2005
The problem with the leading management software vendors, at least for me, is that it's often difficult to distinguish the technology from the marketing pitch....
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November 14, 2005
As a member of the press, I can only imagine how long network managers have wanted to take the concentrated analysis and trouble-shooting capabilities of...
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November 02, 2005
Network management vendors that may not be ready to tout business service management (BSM) strategies could still have a leg up on the IBMs and...
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November 02, 2005
Compuware recently discussed results of its survey of some 200 senior IT decision-makers, and the application management software maker found that the majority of respondents...
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November 02, 2005
Desktop management is evolving from a mundane workaday task to a critical component to overall enterprise management....
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October 11, 2005
Network device change and configuration management could be getting easier for network managers....
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October 11, 2005
OK so THE grid -- the one in which everyone opens their firewalls to share processing power worldwide -- isn't any closer to happening, but...
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October 11, 2005
Hurwitz & Associates recently surveyed more than 110 IT executives to get to the bottom of the demand of portal-like interfaces that show performance data,...
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September 26, 2005
In theory, best practice frameworks such as ITIL, COBIT and Six Sigma deliver streamlined operations, potential cost savings and compliance with internal and external policies....
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September 26, 2005
Technically a vendor product, such as management software, can't claim to be best practice certified....
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September 26, 2005
HP last week continued its years-long shopping spree when it picked up AppIQ and Peregrine....
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September 13, 2005
Voice over IP has reached the point at which IT managers are readying to buy tools to manage it....
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September 06, 2005
Not only is IBM tackling virtualized environments, Big Blue is also working on products to manage Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enabled applications, and with recent accolades...
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September 06, 2005
Cisco is making its move to manage the networks it provides....
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September 06, 2005
Systems management vendors are prepping products to help IT managers get a handle on their virtual environments....
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August 17, 2005
HP and IBM recently made news around their market-leading positions, as reported by research firm IDC....
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August 17, 2005
IBM last week made news around its WebSphere brand with a new software product designed to automatically distribute workload across Big Blue's application server platform....
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August 17, 2005
A recent survey by Evergreen Systems revealed that more companies are interested in adopting IT best practices, such as those detailed in the Information Technology...
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August 10, 2005
As more and more companies adopt Linux as an enterprise-scale operating system, more vendors are stepping up to the plate with tools to manage the...
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August 10, 2005
Venture funding seems to be on the rise and software companies are getting the lion's share of the loot....
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August 10, 2005
EMC last week went on a tour so to speak talking up the company's strategy, which includes using technology it acquired from SMARTS....
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August 01, 2005
Getting IT best practices in place isn't an easy task. According to Michele Hudnall, director of service management at Managed Objects and former Meta Group...
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August 01, 2005
Cisco this week increased its management arsenal with its plans to acquire Sheer Networks. Cisco says Sheer's products, Sheer Dynamic Network Abstraction, or DNA, will...
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August 01, 2005
Pricing software as a service is taking off for many applications vendors, but don't discount the benefit of getting outsourced management services. Companies such as...
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July 25, 2005
It's inevitable that large companies under new management undergo changes. Last week the inevitable happened to HP....
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July 25, 2005
Services-oriented architecture (SOA) will change how the majority of companies handle computing....
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July 18, 2005
Venture capitalists have been investing more this year and one area that seems to spark their interest is management technologies....
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July 18, 2005
HP last week took advantage of the Burton Group Catalyst Conference to showcase its upgraded OpenView identity and access management products....
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July 18, 2005
Network World tester Tom Henderson this week evaluates how well QCD Microsystems' InterStructures 1.0.4 stacks up to its claims to manage Linux servers from a...
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July 11, 2005
Management vendors have been incrementally adding security features to their wares for the past couple of years now....
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July 11, 2005
Want to get rid of unwanted spam and better protect yourself against hackers?...
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July 11, 2005
Application performance remains one of those IT metrics that varies based on who you talk to -- even within the same company....
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June 27, 2005
More and more enterprise-class vendors are starting to package their products for small to midsize customers....
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June 27, 2005
Best practices mania is trickling all the way down to the desktop. Recent research from firms such as Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and Forrester Research...
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June 27, 2005
Every week a new buzzword comes up that leaves all of us wondering, "What's the difference between that and what the vendor did last week?"...
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June 13, 2005
For those of you considering IT best practices, be sure to read our real world accounts from IT managers currently in the process of getting...
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June 13, 2005
Systems management could get a whole lot easier for you....
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June 13, 2005
A recent Forrester Research survey of about 200 CIOs at North American companies shows IT spenders don't have a positive view of the future....
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May 30, 2005
The lines continue to blur between management and security technologies. More and more vendors are applying the tenets of network management to help IT managers...
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May 30, 2005
Network managers depend on their own smarts as much as vendor tools....
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May 30, 2005
IT managers are expected to stay on top of a lot of data and ensure the network -- and the applications using it -- perform...
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May 23, 2005
BMC this week announced it would be doing away with its decade-old product name Patrol and replace it with another that the company says is...
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May 23, 2005
IBM Tivoli last week announced it would be releasing four new products and updating some 14 others with capabilities to automatically track changes and configurations...
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May 23, 2005
The number of players in the network and systems management market is shrinking, but that's not a bad thing for customers of performance monitoring products....
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May 16, 2005
Network and systems management vendors are going to start to see some competition from the open source community....
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May 16, 2005
As more and more servers proliferate, vendors continue to make managing the lot easier. This week Heroix and Opsware separately released new products that will...
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May 16, 2005
IBM this week joined a growing number of management vendors that intend to house application, system and network configuration data in a federated repository to...
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May 09, 2005
Data center consolidation, VoIP and security risks such as virus infection have network managers looking to better manage IP addresses....
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May 09, 2005
Application performance on LANs and WANs is concern Number One for IT managers, according to a Forrester Research survey....
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May 09, 2005
According to Peter Sevcik, president of NetForecast and founder of a new industry organization working to create a standard for measuring application performance, the LAN...
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April 25, 2005
After years of shopping, HP's OpenView management software division is going to buckle down....
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April 25, 2005
Applications seem to be what are on many network managers' minds lately....
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April 25, 2005
"Network anomaly detection gives an indication of security-relevant behavior observed in a network and can be particularly valuable in the identification and containment of worms, for example," says Scott Crawford, an analyst with Enterprise Management Associates.
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April 12, 2005
Computer Associates President and CEO John Swainson last week unveiled some five months worth of decision-making when the new chief shared with the press and...
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April 12, 2005
Speaking of acquisitions, Micromuse also last week announced it would acquire Quallaby and incorporate its performance management software, Proviso, into Muse's flagship Netcool fault management...
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April 12, 2005
With tight budgets and short staff, just about everyone in IT is being asked to do more than their share. Isn't it about time the...
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April 04, 2005
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is getting a lot of attention these days. The set of IT best practices features a dozen or so...
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April 04, 2005
With Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA deadlines looming, IT managers are being forced to stay on top of compliance in their day-to-day IT operations....
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April 04, 2005
A group of vendors have joined forces with the goal of defining a measure of user satisfaction with application performance....
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March 21, 2005
With deadlines looming and more regulations to come, technology to help become compliant will top many IT managers list of things to buy in 2005....
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March 21, 2005
Doctors at Children's Memorial Research Center in Chicago recently discovered how grid technology could cure their research woes....
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March 21, 2005
IT automation technologies for years have filled IT managers' minds with great promise and fear: promise of enabling more efficient operations and fear of losing...
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March 07, 2005
IBM Tivoli and Computer Associates last week made their position on mainframes known. The two management heavyweights separately announced wares to keep zSeries in line....
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March 07, 2005
Another network management veteran is looking to get into the business service management (BSM) game. Micromuse, known for its Netcool fault management product that often...
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March 07, 2005
The hottest trend in management start-ups lately is automation, with recent news from companies such as Optier, Optinuity and RealOps....
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February 07, 2005
Vendors at this week's VoiceCon show in Orlando want to help answer that question for enterprise IT managers....
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February 07, 2005
Heavyweights such as Cisco, IBM and Microsoft aren't the only vendors looking to provide enterprise IT teams with lockdown capabilities....
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February 07, 2005
While poor application performance has never been acceptable, there are more and more reasons why applications that face customers on a company Web site or...
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January 24, 2005
IBM last April announced its plans to acquire Candle, a sometimes competitor in the mainframe management market with IBM's own Tivoli Software division....
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January 24, 2005
Configuration management vendors seemed to come out of the woodwork in 2004, spurring management heavyweights to acquire and develop their own configuration management wares....
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January 24, 2005
Forrester Research recently put out a paper detailing how enterprise companies should select a data center automation vendor....
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January 10, 2005
Concord this week announced it would acquire competitor Aprisma Management Technologies....
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January 10, 2005
IT budget dollars will continue to inch upward at a slow and steady pace, between 6% and 9% over 2004 budgets, according to market research...
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January 10, 2005
According to Forrester Research, data center automation technologies are maturing, and most enterprises are now both aware of, and interested in, these core technologies of...
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December 08, 2004
