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Systems Management

June 10, 2009

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 7:01 AM/EST

Gaining Virtual Visibility

One of the problems with virtualization these days, especially in large organizations, is that there is often a disconnect between the people overseeing the virtual machine environment and the folks tasked with running the physical servers. As a result,...

June 4, 2009

Thursday, June 04, 2009 4:36 PM/EST

Time to Overhaul the IT Management Process

It's nobody's particular fault, but the way most IT organizations think about managing their daily operations is in the need of an overhaul. Over the years the way IT organizations manage applications and servers haphazardly evolved largely because so...

May 29, 2009

Friday, May 29, 2009 11:48 AM/EST

The Battle over Job Schedulers

With all the focus on saving costs in IT, the lowly job scheduler is suddenly a primary area of focus. Once considered a sleepy systems management category dominated by companies such as CA, BMC and IBM, the entire segment...

May 11, 2009

Monday, May 11, 2009 4:25 PM/EST

Challenging the Management Status Quo

The problem with enterprise-class network management software is that it's expensive, complex to manage and difficult to install. With those issues in mind, ManageEngine is directly challenging the major vendors in this category with a suite of network management...

April 27, 2009

Monday, April 27, 2009 7:36 AM/EST

Intelligent Design in IT Automation

One of the more frustrating things about job schedulers is that historically they've been pretty dumb pieces of software. Instead of inherently understanding the capabilities of the underlying IT environment, the average job scheduler was basically a script that...

March 10, 2009

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:21 PM/EST

Gaining IT Perspective and Maturity

The sad truth is that all too often most IT organizations are not sure what systems and applications are actually supporting what specific business process. Given enough time, they can figure it out, but in terms of knowing exactly...

February 26, 2009

Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:36 AM/EST

Avoiding the Insanity of IT

It's pretty clear that a lot of IT organizations need some help when it comes to serving the business during these challenging economic times. And it's also clear that IT automation technologies are going to be a big part...

February 23, 2009

Monday, February 23, 2009 12:55 PM/EST

IT Management Becomes a Service

When it comes to managing IT, there's a lot of frustration in the upper ranks of IT management. In this current extended economic downturn, a lot of senior IT executives are asking hard questions about more efficient ways to...

February 18, 2009

Wednesday, February 18, 2009 8:23 AM/EST

The Changing Dynamics of Desktop Virtualization

It seems these days just about everybody is considering some form of virtualization on the desktop. That doesn't mean everybody is rushing to do this tomorrow, but it does mean that people are considering their options. In particular, they...

February 11, 2009

Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:17 AM/EST

Time for Systems Managers to Hang Together

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, either all the systems manager will hang together or all the systems will surely hang separately. That's the thinking behind a software-a-a-service (SaaS) offering that gives IT organizations access to a service desk developed by...

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