IBM outlines IT governance strategies; Interop Las Vegas 2007 planning guide

Network/Systems Management News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Oracle Applications Executive Guide Where are applications headed? Read "Trends Shaping Enterprise Business Applications" for detailed information on performance management, applications acceleration and service oriented architecture. Network World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 05/15/07 IBM spells out IT governance and risk strategy, 05/15/07:  IBM today outlined its strategy towards IT governance and risk management, a phrase that security professionals use to describe the management of IT assets and processes, including enforcing security policy and ensuring business continuity. Click here for more. Appliance monitors, analyzes employee behavior, 05/10/07:  Business and IT executives looking to drive bottlenecks out of business processes and uncover security threats in their environments might want to check out a product that promises to map a company's organizational network and provide analysis as to how it can be optimized. Click here for more. Review: Midtier management tools register high marks, 05/14/07:  A midsize network ranging from 1,000 to 20,000 nodes exhibits virtually all the same complexities and troubleshooting challenges as a mega-network with more than 50,000 nodes. Monitoring and management products for midrange networks, therefore, need to measure up to that challenge. Click here for more. NEW FROM NETWORK WORLD: Microsoft Subnet - The independent voice of Microsoft customers At Microsoft Subnet, our editors scour the Web for Microsoft-related news, blogs, discussion groups and security alerts, and present them to you on one page. You can also set up your own Microsoftblog and create Microsoft groups with fellow users at Microsoft Subnet. Click here to check it out! Interop Las Vegas 2007 planning guide, 05/14/07:  Whether you own a five-employee business or are CIO of a Fortune 500 company, almost everything you need to know about running your network can be learned at Interop. Click here for more. Did I Say 2010?: Author Expert: Jeff Doyle blog: "Last Monday, I cited Geoff Huston’s study, which projected the IPv4 depletion of the IANA pool to be mid-2011. The study has now been updated and the exhaustion of the IANA IPv4 pool is predicted to happen in December 2009, and the exhaustion of the RIR to be September 2010." Click here for more. Analyzing your network's behavior, 05/09/07:  Senior Editor Denise Dubie talks with Dimitri Vlachos, a product manager at Mazu Networks, how network behavior analysis technology can not only help IT managers secure their networks internally, but it can also go a long way toward operational management improvements. (11:47) Listen now.

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