Latest management news.
Management vendors team on configuration spec, 08/20/07: CMDB Federation releases a draft specification to allow multiple databases and management data repositories to share information.
Management tool vendors gear up for virtualization, 08/20/07: BMC, CA, Network General and others combine specialized server management with traffic-flow analysis to track application performance across a virtual infrastructure.
Lotus ships Notes/Domino, 08/20/07: IBM/Lotus last week shipped Notes/Domino 8, ushering in its new client framework and integration with its next-generation social networking tools.
Podcast: Virtualization management gotchas: Andi Mann, research director with Enterprise Management Associates, on how to avoid virtualization trouble spots.
Study: Could onshoring become the new offshoring?, 08/17/07: A recent ITAA report details how U.S. companies can kill two birds with one stone: outsource their labor force and keep jobs available to U.S. workers.
Windows administrators seek increased automation, 08/16/07: Internal politics is the topmost frustration for Windows administrators, who would prefer less bureaucracy and more automation over a salary increase, according to a research survey published this week.
Cisco has green credentials: An Environmental Protection Agency report lists Cisco as the leading hi-tech company that uses green power.
15 ways to create innovation with IT, 08/16/07: Behind every successful innovator are effective leadership and management practices. Below, 15 CIO 100 winners share their secrets.
Managed services and the channel: Cisco Subnet’s Channelguy asks: As a channel partner considering managed services, do you invest in your own infrastructure and manage your own fate or do you extend your reseller roots to managed services?
Citrix: XenSource fills critical virtualization hole in product portfolio, 08/16/07: Citrix’s announcement that it would acquire XenSource demonstrates the company’s plans to support the most relevant application delivery technologies possible, company officials say. The software, according to Citrix Chief Strategy Officer Wes Wasson, will not only enhance Citrix’s desktop and server products, but also be put to use in the company’s application networking tools also acquired with NetScaler and Orbital Data. Network World Senior Editor Denise Dubie talked with Wasson today to learn more about why Citrix made this move now and what it means to corporate IT customers.
