 Network/Systems Management News AlertThis newsletter is sponsored by AkamaiNetwork World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 10/11/07Gartner's top 10 strategic technologies for 2008, 10/09/07: Which technologies must any good IT executive examine in 2008? The list includes green power, unified communications, virtualization, mashups and social software. Podcast: At American Heart Association good network management is good security: The key to better security for the American Heart Association is to keep an efficient network with monitoring throughout. Josh Hinkle, Manager, network management & security, at the American Heart Association explains how knowing what's going on in your network is important to thwarting attacks and anomalies. (7:51) Podcast: 4 stages of grid computing: Grid computing is all about scaling out the enterprise IT infrastructure without having to invest scads of money in high-powered systems. But companies don’t typically through their mission-critical business applications on a grid all at once. Songnian Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Platform Computing, understands the enterprise motivation well, having worked with myriad grid computing customers over the years. Zhou sees companies adopting grid in four steps. He talks with Beth Schultz, New Data Center editor, about those steps, including the business goals, challenges and benefits to be gained in each. (25:57)
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