Management heavies get poor grades; 10 ways to boost your IT org now

Network/Systems Management News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Oracle TCO: Making the Most of Your Information Technology Investments Discover how to use the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach and four key strategies to chose the best technologies to benefit your organization and its unique needs and requirements. Network World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 05/08/07 Management heavies get poor grades in Gartner survey, 05/03/07: Management software heavyweights BMC, CA, HP and IBM are barely making the grade with their customers, earning C and D averages and driving IT buyers to look elsewhere for their operations management needs, according to a recent Gartner poll. Click here for more. Network General adds application intelligence to network tools, 05/07/07: Network General this week announced three new products the company says will help network managers better track NetFlow data, provide insight into virtual environments and monitor application performance across distributed networks down to the user device. Click here for more. What’s holding IT organizations back?, 05/07/07: What will the IT organization of the future look like? We gathered experts for a virtual roundtable discussion about how CIOs are reorganizing their IT operations to improve customer service and gain a competitive advantage from such emerging technologies as wireless networks, unified communications and service-oriented architectures.Click here for more. VoIP: Lessons from Early Adopters Experts say VoIP isn't a magic wand that will solve all of an organization's communications challenges right out of the box. Learn why VoIP may not produce expected savings and productivity gains, and other lessons from early adopters. Click Here to Watch IT reorganization: What you had to say about it, 05/07/07: We asked for your ideas about the ideal IT organization of the future as part of package of stories we're doing on this subject. Click here for a sampling of what you had to say. Slideshow: 10 ways to boost your IT org now, 05/07/07 A few steps you can take today to create a more effective IT department. Click here to view the slides.

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