 Network/Systems Management News AlertNetwork World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 10/25/0710 reasons IT managers fear ITIL, 10/24/07: Adopting the best practices laid out in ITIL requires IT managers commit to a multi-year project, bring executive management on board and wear their thickest skin to work every day as a majority of people will resist the efforts to overhaul how IT does its job. Co-working: the ultimate in teleworking flexibility, 10/23/07: Jon Pierce’s teleworking office can’t get much more casual. Operating out of the third floor of a Cambridge, Mass., triple-decker apartment building, Pierce and several of his peers come to work dressed in jeans and spend their days pecking away diligently at their keyboards. They play music sans headphones to help pass the time, with the new Radiohead album garnering significant airplay in recent days. For leisure, they’ve set up an electric guitar on a nearby chair that can be played during break time, and there are piles of Reese’s cups and jellybeans spread across the kitchen counter to satisfy their quick hunger fixes. Opnet acquires Network Physics for $10 million, 10/22/07: Network management vendor Opnet on Monday announced it has acquired Network Physics for $10 million in a deal that will give Opnet the tools it needs to manage end-to-end application performance.
Fluke Networks tackles unified performance management, 10/24/07: Fluke Networks this week unveiled the fruit of two acquisitions and quite a bit of integration work when it shared details around its unified performance management software, which the vendor says will help customers better manage application performance while tapping knowledge of the underlying network. CA advances mainframe security tools, 10/24/07: CA this week added automation and business intelligence features to five mainframe security software products designed to control access, manage entitlements, and audit and report on compliance across IBM z/OS systems. A Philosophy for tuning Management Packs: Author expert and Microsoft Subnet blogger Kerrie Meyler offers tips on management pack including planning based on dependencies, tips for rollout, initial tuning by function, dealing with excessive alerts and more. Network capacity management: Everyone should do it but only a few do: Cisco Subnet's From the Field blogger Michael Morris explains the benefits of network capacity management tools. What it means to be an industry leader, 10/19/07: The C-level competency of strategic orientation is the ability to think long term, strategically, and beyond one's own area to plan against larger issues. It depends on complex thinking abilities, both analytical (cause-and-effect chains) and conceptual (patterns). It isn't just "the vision thing" -- the emphasis is on business strategy, not vivid images. The strategies must incorporate specific business issues, and in many cases propose action, or at least be so clear that anyone knowing those strategies can use them to make decisions for action. 3 weaknesses in business intelligence today, 10/23/07: SeeWhy Software, the privately held maker of a real-time business intelligence (BI) platform, commissioned researchers at Dynamic Markets to survey how well business intelligence was being used in operations. The study surveyed 218 enterprise operations managers in the United States and the United Kingdom. The results validate SeeWhy's value proposition, says Charles Nicholls, the company's CEO. Leading change, outsourcing and 'The Art of War', 10/22/07: Our annual "State of the CIO" analysis is underway and already we're uncovering surprising trends in how CIOs work, strategize and view themselves in the corporate landscape. We surveyed hundreds of IT leaders about expectations for themselves and for their peers regarding technical and managerial issues. We'll publish our full analysis on Dec. 15, but between now and then we'll bring you excerpts of the data and of our conversations with CIOs wrestling with tough issues. Data centers devour 5% to 15% of IT budget, 10/19/07: How much of your overall IT budget now gets eaten up by data center facilities costs, including energy costs? According to new research from the Uptime Institute, these costs have ballooned from a traditional level of one to three percent of IT's total budget to a new high of 5% to 15%. Podcast: Identity management helps take load off Sabre's legacy systems: For Sabre Holdings, identity management and security provisioning tools from Sun and Netegrity, have eased the burden on its mainframe processing systems and allowed the company to move to more open systems for supporting the 1 million peak transactions per hour it must process. Kurtis Holland, Principal, IT Security at Sabre Holdings, explains what steps went to into picking which tools to use and what you can do to avoid mistakes when implementing identity management in your own enterprise environment. (9:19) 20 great Firefox extensions: You've seen the lists of Top X great Firefox extensions on other sites, but they all have a different 10 favorites. So how do you decide which are worthy of your attention? We bring you THE definitive list of the 20 best culled from all the top 10 lists we could find. Top 15 networkiest moments in sports: It's game time for tech time. Here's are ranking of the top events where sports and networking intersect. |
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