* Capabilities to look for in management software
* Notes from HP’s September analyst event
* Providers such as SmartPipes take fresh approach to setting up WAN bandwidth
* Follow-up to column on management companies that are dead and gone
* Ipswitch and Singlestep Technologies make an interesting partnership
* What killed some management software vendors
* Three factors affect management software decisions
* NetQoS products use Cisco’s NetFlow for management
* A roadmap for IT management evolution
* A response to the notion that IT could be viewed as a commodity
