Latest management news.
Quest unveils tools for managing Active Directory, Exchange, 04/25/07Click here for more.
Management vendor Quest Software Wednesday added Active Directory forest recovery to its disaster-prevention tool set and shipped a plug-in for Exchange Server that lets administrators track users and audit changes made to the messaging server.
Red Hat to acquire MetaMatrix, 04/24/07Click here for more.
Red Hat Tuesday said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of MetaMatrix, a provider of data management and integration software.
U.S. high-tech employment rises again, 04/24/07Click here for more.
High-tech is hot again. The U.S. high-tech industry is expanding, having added nearly 150,000 jobs in 2006 for total employment of 5.8 million. The industry is growing significantly faster than in 2005, when it added 87,400 jobs.
SDL to buy Web content-management vendor Tridion, 04/24/07Click here for more.
SDL International, a global information-management vendor, said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy Web content-management vendor Tridion and will integrate their products to help corporations communicate and interact with international audiences in multiple languages.
Siemens CEO steps down, 04/25/07Click here for more.
Klaus Kleinfeld, president and CEO of Siemens, told the company’s supervisory board at its meeting Wednesday that he is no longer available for a renewal of his contract, which expires Oct. 1.
15 bleeding-edge network research projects you should know aboutClick here for more.
What are university and independent labs doing with the millions of dollars in funding they receive each year from government and other sources? Lots of them are working to solve current network problems and envision networks of the future. Here’s a look at 15 of the most interesting projects we’ve come across.
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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