Change management trips over skills gap; Emerging management challengers

Opinion
Jul 31, 20072 mins

Latest management news.

Change management trips over skills gap, 07/25/07: CIOs and IT managers in the U.K. believe skills gaps in the IT department are hampering businesses’ change management programs, research has revealed.

Emerging management challengers: What do you think?, 07/25/07: For many years now, I have been writing about the big four management software makers and how every move they make could impact the overall network and systems management market – redefining how IT executives manage, automate and optimize their environments.

Opalis keeps eye on New Century’s systems: New Century Title Insurance company relies on data from multiple sources to keep its customers and agents informed. To make sure critical systems and feeds stay up, the company uses monitoring and remediation tools from Opalis. Marvin Stone, vice president and CIO at New Century, explains what Opalis’ tools does and how the company uses them on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap. (6:59)

Podcast: Baseball Hall of Fame slow to induct digital video, 07/26/07: Baseball Hall of FameThe National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., has over 10,000 hours of audio recordings and video footage in many different native formats, but has not yet jumped on the digital video merry-go-ground. Benjamin Harry, media archivist and recording manager for the Hall of Fame, talks with Network World’s Jason Meserve about the hesitation to go digital and the challenges of preserving analog media for future generations of baseball fans. (16:04)

Video: A dirty job for IT: Keith test-drives a USB device with file detection software that aims to find objectionable content stored on a PC notebook.