NetFlash: American ITIL: Best practices win converts

Those of you who receive our free Network/Systems Management Newsletter are probably familiar with the IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. This set of best practices for managing networks and systems is getting picked up by enterprise companies across America. This week we look at what ITIL is and what makes it so popular. American ITIL: Best practices win converts http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004itil.html?net Net/Systems Management Newsletter http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nsm/index.html?net

Those of you who receive our free Network/Systems Management Newsletter are probably familiar with the IT Infrastructure Library, or ITIL. This set of best practices for managing networks and systems is getting picked up by enterprise companies across America. This week we look at what ITIL is and what makes it so popular.

American ITIL: Best practices win converts

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004itil.html?net

Net/Systems Management Newsletter

https://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/nsm/index.html?net

Full exposure: How Kodak converged its net

The Your Take series of in-depth interviews returns this week as Network World’s Phil Hochmuth talks with John Parsons of Kodak, which oversaw two major shifts at the company. Kodak consolidated servers at 350 sites into one massive data center, and then it converged its global voice and data networks onto one MPLS-based VPN. How did it go? Read on.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/083004yourtakekodak.html?net

DCML finds home in OASIS

A proposed standard to enable integration, automation and better management of data center components this week will begin development under the direction of a new standards body – the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0830dcml.html?net

F5 jams new tools into traffic manager

The many new mechanisms to secure and speed up applications running on networks are heading for consolidation that should make it easier and less expensive to deliver the kind of performance end users want.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0831f5jams.html?net

Today on Layer 8, where we know Greedo didn’t shoot first:

Microsoft to take on iTunes; a look at the jet-powered wheelchair; Simpsons characters: If they mated; and the winner of our Weekly Caption Contest; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.

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