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Spotlight to shine on network, application management at Interop, 09/18/06
Hot technologies, such as VoIP, security and wireless, will get their share of attention at this week’s Interop conference in New York City, but it is the often-overlooked area of network management that could steal the show.
SOX Watch: Change management is key to SOX success, 09/18/06
While perusing a draft of “IT Control Objectives for Sarbanes-Oxley, 2nd Edition,” I discovered several profound statements in the section on compliance and IT governance:
Change control minimizes outages, 09/18/06
For many IT organizations, firefighting is a way of life to ensure service availability. This is because availability is constantly threatened by changes to the infrastructure that don’t conform to IT service management processes and policies.
Avocent: Use your BlackBerry to manage your network, 09/18/06
KVM switch and network infrastructure management firm Avocent on Sept. 18 will use Interop to introduce a revamped version of SonicAdmin, which gives IT administrators the ability to fix network problems from anywhere via a mobile device.
IBM to provide tools that help developers, operations staff more quickly solve performance …, 09/18/06
IBM on Sept. 18 is set to share details on a product the company says will help developers catalog application behavior and potential performance problems to operations teams that must manage the application on production networks.
Opinion: We need to fill the Internet measurement void, 09/18/06
I’ll admit it: I’m a data junkie.
Network/Systems Management Newsletter: Readdressing the need to measure the quality of your end user’s experience, 09/18/06
Recently, one of my favorite topics for these columns has been ITIL’s Configuration Management Database (CMDB) but several years ago a …
IBM readies scheduling software for virtual environments, 09/15/06
IBM on Tuesday introduced new software in its Tivoli line designed to help users better manage their grid environments. The announcement was made at the GridWorld conference in Washington, D.C.
Survey says: Smart networks are in, 09/15/06
The debate over whether IT buyers want to invest in dumb boxes with limited purpose or purchase hardware embedded with security, optimization and management technologies may be over.
GroundWork upgrades open source monitoring software, 09/14/06
GroundWork Open Source next week will use the Interop conference in New York to showcase the latest version of its flagship software that the company says now provides better reporting and network management features.
Network Optimization Newsletter: Cisco customers could embrace vendor’s WAN optimization tools, 09/14/06
Cisco last week announced a product suite that plants the networking giant firmly in the WAN optimization market, and while industry …
Network/Systems Management Newsletter: The management market is at a tipping point, 09/13/06
In last Wednesday’s newsletter, we referred to IBM’s acquisition of Internet Security Systems as yet another milestone in the convergence of leading …
