Online communities a godsend for IT managers; HP to acquire Opsware

Network/Systems Management News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Cisco Best Practices for Extending Your Network Architecture Access podcasts, whitepapers and more that offer best practices and principles for extending your architecture across a campus. Learn about the design principles that will transform your campus net and how to tackle the critical areas of integrated security, unified network services and more. Click here to read now! Network World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 07/24/07 Online communities a godsend for IT managers, survey says, 07/23/07: Study shows IT managers who participate in online communities for troubleshooting, systems and security management, and application deployment benefit professionally by saving time when solving IT problems. HP to acquire Opsware in $1.6 billion deal, 07/23/07: HP to acquire data center automation vendor Opsware to help customers reduce the complexity of managing sophisticated application environments. HP set to buy Neoware for $214 million, 07/23/07: HP on Monday announced plans to acquire thin-client computing vendor Neoware for approximately $214 million in a deal HP says will enhance its personal systems technologies. Optimize Your WAN: Network World Shows You How In this Executive Guide learn how optimization can supercharge your WAN. Click Here Cisco invests in OpTier, 07/23/07: OpTier Monday said Cisco had invested an undisclosed amount to help the company continue to deliver business transaction management software. Dell to acquire managed services provider, 07/19/07: Dell could enhance its services division with the SilverBack acquisition by incorporating the managed services provider's technology for remote monitoring of servers, storage, security networks, desktops and laptops. Vendor puts ITIL-based mgmt. on iPhone, 07/18/07: Management software makers may soon be jumping on the Apple iPhone craze as they start to incorporate the latest PDA phenomenon into their product plans. BMC acquires RealOps, 07/19/07: Management software maker BMC on Thursday announced it has acquired run-book-automation vendor RealOps. VMware benchmark tool raises fairness questions, 07/23/07: VMware is making a free benchmarking tool available to IT professionals Monday to evaluate the performance of virtualization technology in their data centers.

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