Latest management news.
CA chief preaches management simplification, 04/23/07Click here for more.
The IT industry has seen much innovation over the years, none of which reduces the complexity of managing distributed environments, says the head of CA.
AlterPoint looks beyond configuration management, 04/23/07Click here for more.
AlterPoint this week will release an expanded product suite that builds upon the company’s network change and configuration management software to provide business analytics, compliance management and protection against security threats.
NetForensics tackles Web data, log management, 04/23/07click here for more.
Security information management vendor netForensics will make available two stand-alone products designed to help network managers monitor Web and database applications and more efficiently collect log data for compliance and auditing purposes.
LANDesk builds IPS into security suite, 04/23/07Click here for more.
LANDesk next month will upgrade its security management suite with capabilities designed to monitor network traffic and compare abnormal activity against predefined rules.
CA unfurls product-integration road map, 04/23/07Click here for more.
CA this week laid out its plans to further unify and simplify its extensive product portfolio, homing in on governance, management and security technologies that would help customers optimize their businesses.
Review: NAC management can be a headache, 04/19/07Click here for more.
NAC deployments present special problems in management because they cross boundaries between groups responsible for security, network configuration, and desktop configuration.
Video: Northeastern speeds app delivery with SoftGrid, 04/23/07.
When Northeastern University needed a better way to manage application licenses for its students and faculty, the school turned to virtualization software from SoftGrid (now Microsoft). What efficiencies were gained? And how much did NU save in software licenses? Navid Atoofi, director of system production services at Northeastern, explains on this edition of Voices from IT Roadmap.
Editor’s Note: Is your IT organizational structure holding your company back?
We’re assembling a package of stories to be published in Network World looking at the IT organizational structure of the future and we need your help:News Editor Bob Brown
* If your company has recently reorganized in light of new business and technology challenges and opportunities, can you send along “before” and “after” org charts? (Feel free to strip out the names, we’re really just looking for titles. But give us a sense of the size of your IT organization/business.) Can you tell us how the reorganization has worked out?
* If your company is in need of an IT org makeover, what areas are currently most dysfunctional?
* Any advice on what your peers can do to improve their IT organizations right now?
We’re looking to tap into our readership through a technique some call “crowdsourcing.” Knowing we don’t have all the answers, but that our audience probably has a lot of them, we’re hoping to help you help each other.
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