10 IT management software companies to watch; Daylight Savings Time issue reappears

Opinion
Sep 18, 20072 mins

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10 IT management software companies to watch, 09/12/07: Management technology is an IT staple — but not a static one. New players are continually emerging to challenge the old guard and provide help for systems and network managers dealing with such issues as virtualization, enhanced user mobility and sophisticated security threats.

10 IT management companies still worth watching, 09/12/07: About a year ago, Network World shined its spotlight on 10 IT management companies poised to challenge industry veterans. The newcomers took on network, systems, applications, security and more. Here’s a brief look at what these companies have done for you lately.

Daylight Savings Time issue reappears on IT radar, 09/17/07: The Daylight Savings Time scramble of last spring may be in need of a cleanup this fall for companies that spent the summer rolling out new servers, desktops and time-sensitive applications.

4 new EMC offerings aim to ease IT service management, 09/17/07: EMC on Monday was to unveil a slew of products that the company says will help enterprise IT managers analyze compliance, IPv6 networks, automate IT processes and generate performance reports.

What is a business leader’s moral responsibility?, 09/12/07: There is no question that the current climate has prompted many more companies to tackle ethics issues. Many are making a set of moral values a part of their corporate cultures. And some forward-looking companies are providing ethics training to managers and workers.

Essential Windows Administrator tools: Microsoft Subnet blogger Chris Dalby has unearthed a great list of tools that every network administrator needs.

Exchange 2007 SP1 enhancements to OCS: Microsoft Subnet blogger Alex Lewis writes: “There are a LOT of new features in Exchange 2007 SP1. It seems like more of a feature pack than a service pack.” He lists them all.