Thursday, September 20, 2007

Cal Ripken's 8 tips on how to be an IT 'Iron Man'; CIOs see value in Web 2.0

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Network World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 09/20/07

Cal Ripken's 8 tips on how to be an IT 'Iron Man', 09/19/07: Cal Ripken, Jr. delivers keynote address about incorporating perseverance, consistency and integrity in daily tasks at itSMFusion 2007 conference in Charlotte, N.C.

Dark secrets, ugly truths: When ethics and IT collide, 09/17/07: It still weighs heavily on Bryan's mind, what he found on that executive's computer, especially when he thinks of his own daughters. He's particularly troubled that the man he discovered using a company computer to view pornography of Asian women and of children was subsequently promoted and moved to China to run a manufacturing plant.

Increasing adoption of ITIL is making resistance futile, 09/19/07: David Farris, IT manager at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, has been working for five years to change some of the processes within his 300-employee organization. He hopes the changes will lead to significant savings in the IT department, which now spends about $100 million annually.

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Forrester: CIOs see value in Web 2.0, 09/17/07: A report recently released by Forrester Research suggests that corporate IT departments have seen demonstrable value from Web 2.0 technologies in the workplace and should continue to adopt more of those applications at their own pace. But the report also reveals that the unsanctioned use of consumer, Web-based applications (a phenomenon known as Rogue IT or Shadow IT) (For more, see 'Shadow IT Culture' on the Rise for Businesses) remains high, behooving IT managers to get in the trenches to find out where sensitive corporate data could be exposed.

BigFix announces endpoint-security offering, 09/18/07: Management software maker BigFix on Tuesday announced a new endpoint-protection offering.

Endace adds NetFlow stats to network probe, 09/17/07: Endace has claimed that its NinjaProbe network traffic monitoring boxes can now generate stats in NetFlow format, thanks to technology developed in Sprint Nextel's R&D labs.

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If ever there were a man that knew how to eek out capacity and secure a data center, it would be Werner Vogels, vice president & CTO of Amazon.com. Join him for a live chat on Monday Oct. 1 from 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. EDT.

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Senior Editor Denise Dubie covers network and systems management for Network World.



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