Management Notes

Vacation, change of scenery

2006-07-21T13:45:01-05:00

I will be on vacation until August 7. Upon my return I will encounter a change of scenery here. In the coming days the network...

Managing your career path

2006-07-18T07:48:56-05:00

Priscilla Milam, featured this week in Network World's Management Strategies section, didn't know networking was her calling from Day One. The current IT executive at...

Hyperic releases source code to management platform

2006-07-17T12:27:02-05:00

Hyperic, a start-up with an affiliation toward open source, today released the source code for Hyperic HQ, a management software platform the company says can...

HP says: Manage IT as a service

2006-07-14T11:59:23-05:00

HP's OpenView management software is popular among network managers, but company executives have been working to evolve its software to address more than restoring downed...

IBM preps SIM software

2006-07-13T12:16:27-05:00

IBM today unveiled software designed to manage security events from disparate network devices. The software is based on technology IBM acquired with Micromuse earlier this...

Making ITIL work in your network

2006-07-12T12:54:35-05:00

Network managers accustomed to troubleshooting and firefighting network problems in real time may not always follow a pre-defined process to get critical tasks done day-to-day....

Opsware to add storage management to its data center automation suite.

2006-07-11T08:38:49-05:00

Data center automation vendor Opsware is adding storage to the list of IT domains it can manage. The vendor today announced it had entered into...

Nagios open source software now covered in Splunk searches

2006-07-10T13:11:04-05:00

Systems management and search start-up Splunk today made available a software add-on that will enable Nagios open source monitoring software users to more quickly pinpoint...

HP introduces management excellence awards

2006-07-07T14:06:31-05:00

Network and systems management IT projects tend to be massive undertakings that require long-term commitment across several IT departments. This year HP's OpenView management software...

Dashboards in the right doses

2006-07-06T08:51:31-05:00

A recent study by The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) shows that the use of performance dashboards is on the rise, but that IT and business...

Monitoring IP performance without probes

2006-06-30T15:59:23-05:00

A new draft standard at the IETF might make it possible for network managers to track IP performance between network devices without deploying hardware or...

Event processing for business metrics

2006-06-29T08:58:52-05:00

The technology that helps network managers collect data from multiple sources such as routers and servers is being put to use in a similar fashion...

Designing your ideal dashboard

2006-06-27T11:21:33-05:00

IT managers have long been looking at statistics in various consoles, but today the concept of dashboards -- which pull data from many IT and...

Taking on application optimization

2006-06-26T09:52:03-05:00

There will never be one approach to perfecting application performance across distributed enterprise networks. In fact, there are many methods network managers employ to get...

Blue Coat adds NetCache to app acceleration product plans

2006-06-23T15:24:32-05:00

Blue Coat Systems, which this year upgraded its security and proxy technology with acceleration features, this week announced it would acquire the NetCache business from...

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