Seattle Children’s Hospital seeks IT management cure with CA software

Open source management community launches; CA to buy NetQoS for $200 million Network/Systems Management Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Network Instruments Managing Application Delivery On an ever-increasing basis, the primary components of a company's key business processes (e.g., sales, customer relationship management, quote-to-cash) are automated. If the applications supporting those key business processes are unavailable or underperforming, the company's key business processes are negatively impacted. Learn to avoid these scenarios by taking a top-down approach to application performance management. Learn more now Spotlight Story Seattle Children's Hospital seeks IT management cure with CA software Seattle Children's Hospital puts CA Spectrum Infrastructure Manager and CA eHealth Performance Manager to work monitoring application performance from the end-user perspective. Read full story Related News: Open source management community launches GroundWork Open Source launches MonitoringForge.org to foster development, maintenance and widespread use of open-source management and monitoring applications among IT administrators. CA to buy NetQoS for $200 million CA is acquiring NetQoS in a $200 million cash transaction, bringing the latter vendor's application-aware network and systems management technologies into CA's enterprise IT management software portfolio. CA preps to manage next-generation environments CA expands software applications to support VMware vSphere 4 and Cisco Nexus 1000V to help customers simplify management, increase automation and improve performance and availability. CA plucks automation assets from struggling Cassatt CA has acquired for an undisclosed sum the assets of data center automation vendor Cassatt, perhaps salvaging the technological innovation developed earlier this decade at the financially struggling start-up. 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Managing Application Delivery On an ever-increasing basis, the primary components of a company's key business processes (e.g., sales, customer relationship management, quote-to-cash) are automated. If the applications supporting those key business processes are unavailable or underperforming, the company's key business processes are negatively impacted. Learn to avoid these scenarios by taking a top-down approach to application performance management. 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