IT management nirvana: Monitoring physical and virtual environments in one console

CA to buy NetQoS for $200 million; Seattle Children's Hospital seeks IT management cure with CA software Network/Systems Management Alert NetworkWorld.com | Update Your Profile | Forward this to a Friend >>> Sponsored by Netezza Netezza changes the game. Again. Netezza TwinFin delivers stunning price/performance that you have to experience to believe! Interested in taking TwinFin for a TestDrive? Test it on your own track. Your Data. Your Site. Our Technology. Click here for details. Spotlight Story IT management nirvana: Monitoring physical and virtual environments in one console CA introduces Spectrum Service Assurance 1.1, the vendor's latest management application designed to ease the challenge of monitoring virtual and physical infrastructure to support IT services and guarantee optimal performance. Read full story Related News: 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. 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. Tracking application performance virtually everywhere NetScout enhances its nGenius agent technology to perform packet-flow monitoring and analysis in virtual computing environments. Do you know where your employees are working? Enabling employees to work from anywhere can save companies time and money while boosting productivity. Here's how to do it right. 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