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January 21, 2009

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 9:20 AM/EST

The Locked-Down Virtual PC

One of the long-simmering areas of tension between IT people and the end users they serve has been over the concept of the locked-down PC. From an IT person's perspective, the PC is a corporate asset. That means that...

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January 13, 2009

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:32 PM/EST

Discover Your True IT Assets

One of the sleepier corners of IT is the whole category of asset management. In terms of IT glory, being the person in charge of asset management has never been seen as the fast track to advancing one's career....

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December 18, 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:36 AM/EST

Layer Zero Server Management

It's kind of surprising in this day and age how rudimentary server management can be. Far too many IT organizations are still using pen and paper trying to keep track of which servers are attached to what applications. In...

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December 5, 2008

Friday, December 05, 2008 7:29 AM/EST

Simplifying Security

There has to be a simpler way of securing communications across diverse networks of people. That's pretty much the driving concept behind a new Stealth Security initiative created by Unisys for the Federal government that leverages communication software created...

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November 25, 2008

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:12 AM/EST

Clarifying the Role of Agents in IT Management

When it comes to the whole issue of agents there's been a lot of trash talk thrown around by various members of the applications and systems management community. On the one side, advocates for products that don't use agents...

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November 17, 2008

Monday, November 17, 2008 3:46 PM/EST

A Lack of Standards Holds GRC Back

The one thing that just about everybody is certain will happen in 2009 is the fact that we're going to see a whole lot more emphasis on governance, risk management and compliance (GRC). After all, just about every economic...

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October 21, 2008

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:19 AM/EST

Search Comes to Systems Management

There's a lot of debate about whether IT organizations need to extend there existing systems management tools to embrace virtual machine or find new tools that were designed from the ground up to manage virtualization. But regardless of what...

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October 17, 2008

Friday, October 17, 2008 6:51 AM/EST

The Transformation of Symantec

After an acquisition binge that shows no sign of abating, Symantec is experiencing something roughly akin to an identity crisis. And no, this issue has nothing really to do with identity management software per se. If you trace the...

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October 15, 2008

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:18 AM/EST

Network Management Gets Virtual

Network managers have been watching the advent of virtualization over the past several months with a certain amount of apprehension. Each physical server has the potential, for example, to run five virtual machines, which increases the utilization rate of...

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September 22, 2008

Monday, September 22, 2008 9:21 AM/EST

The Apple iPhone Comes to Systems Management

It was only a matter of time before the Apple iPhone started to work its way into the systems management arsenal. Integrien has become one of the first providers of systems management tools to make it possible to interact...

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