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- Is your culture getting in the way of your IT success?
- Many enterprise IT investments lead to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches - but often forgotten is the culture of an organization itself. Commentary - While any planned enterprise IT investment leads to healthy debates about the best architectural or application approaches, too often left out...
- Tags: Job, Team, Information Technology, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Team Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Panasonic Computer Solutions, IT management, culture, Jim King, Special to ZDNet, Jim King, Panasonic Computer Solutions, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-23
- 10 ways to evaluate your IT management software
- Does your helpdesk work for you or do you work for your helpdesk? Saar Bitner of SysAid Technologies tells how to manage you IT management software. Commentary - Choosing the right IT management software solution is a strategic decision that requires the careful planning and consideration of every IT...
- Tags: IT Administration, Information Technology, Software Solution, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Management, IT management, software, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet, Saar Bitner SysAid Technologies, Special to ZDNet
- News items 2009-11-05
- Silver Spring signs up another smart grid client
- The latest utility to commit to using smart grid technology from Silver Spring Networks is American Electric Power AEP. Silver Spring will be part of the company's gridSMART initiative, which is being engineered by Indiana Michigan Power and AEP Ohio across regions in Indiana and northeast central Ohio. AEP hopes...
- Tags: American Electric Power Co. Inc., Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, It service Management, Networking, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Dell talks Self-Service IT at Openworld [video]
- At the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Dell chairman and CEO Michael Dell took to the stage to talk about the new strategies that the company is embarking on to help enterprises save money, energy and resources with Dell products and services. In this video clip, Dell talks about...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Video, Corporate Communications, It Services, It Management, Marketing, It service Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- SmartSynch touts progress in Texas
- What's this, smart grid technology that is actually being used for bonafide business purposes and not just in a pilot? SmartSynch, which provides both smart meter technology and smart grid IP communications technology, is reporting that Texas-New Mexico Power TNMP is about halfway through the deployment of...
- Tags: SmartSynch Inc., TNMP, Network Technology, Cloud Computing, Telecom & Utilities, Networking, Utility Computing, It Management, It service Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Researchers bring the sounds of ancient instruments back to life
- A team of researchers is reconstructing the sound or timbre of ancient instruments. The ASTRA (Ancient instruments Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application) project accomplishes this feat using physical modeling computer synthesis and grid technology. by Chris Jablonski
- Tags: Researcher, Instrument, Productivity, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Team Management, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Business Operations, Management, It service Management, Networking, Chris Jablonski
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- BMC picks up MQSoftware, expands into middleware management
- BMC Software said Monday that it has acquired MQSoftware in a move that will expand its offering from mainframe and systems monitoring to middleware. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed statement. BMC positioned the move as a natural evolution to provide monitoring from the mainframe to the...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Mqsoftware Inc., Middleware, It Management, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- BMC to link up with Amazon Web Services for hybrid cloud deployments
- BMC Software on Wednesday will detail plans to collaborate with Amazon Web Services to ease hybrid cloud infrastructure deployments. Despite a lot of chatter about cloud computing most enterprises will take a hybrid approach to their data center and link so called private clouds---also known as your...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Amazon Web Services, Web Service, Amazon.com Inc., Data Centers, It Management, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- BMC MAINVIEW for DB2 V9.2 - An Overview of New Features and Functions
- The presenter of this webcast will provide BMC MAINVIEW for DB2 users with an overview of the new features and functionality provided in release 9.2. The presenter will take on an interactive tour of the new capabilities within BMC MAINVIEW for DB2, and how to get the most value from...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., BMC MAINVIEW, IBM DB2, It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2009-07-08
- IT Service Management for the Midsized Business
- The issues faced today by many midsized businesses are not that different than those faced by large enterprises. The pressure to keep IT systems running at peak performance, manage risk, and reduce costs while at the same time maintaining a competitive advantage are the daily challenges midsized businesses face. The...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Information Technology, Business, Strategy, It Management, Service Level Management, Management, It service Management, It Operations
- Webcasts 2009-07-02
- Find cost-effective solutions to help your business stay up and running
- Business continuity is at risk in many smaller companies, but IT professionals feel there's no way to address it. In the Illuminata CDP Paper, you'll see how the IBM® Comprehensive Data Protection Express solution can help keep your business running. Discover diverse components and services, like Tivoli® Storage Manager FastBack...
- Tags: IBM Corp., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Storage Management, It Management, It Services, Data Management, Storage, Hardware, It service Management
- White papers 2009-07-02
- BMC CONTROL-M Reporting Facility - Overview, Recent Updates & Best Practices
- The presenter of this webcast shows recent release of the BMC CONTROL-M Reporting Facility. The presenter discusses the Reporting Facility GUI, report access options, report templates, and how to run reports in batch mode via both the BMC CONTROL-M/Desktop GUI as well as XML file input.
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Best Practice, BMC CONTROL-M, It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2009-07-01
- What's New in BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager
- The attendee of this webcast will learn more about the latest releases across the BMC BladeLogic product family and how one can benefit from these improvements to maximize the full value of the installation. The new reporting module will be discussed as well as complementary solutions for network and desktop...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., BladeLogic, It Management, Blade Servers, It service Management, Servers, Hardware
- Webcasts 2009-07-01
- IT Economics: CA Infrastructure Management Reduces Operational Costs and Increases IT Efficiency
- CA customers have provided a number of proof points that illustrate how automated, integrated infrastructure and performance management can significantly lower the cost and improve the productivity of IT infrastructure management teams. As IT organizations lay out plans for new investments in virtualization, unified communications, SOA, and cloud computing, they...
- Tags: Infrastructure Management, Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., International Data Group, It Services, It Management, It service Management
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Intelligent IMS Database Management
- Still managing IMS databases the old fashioned way? BMC Software provides exclusive technology that helps to manage all of the IMS databases automatically through a Windows-based interface. BMC MAXM Database Advisor for IMS notifies, which databases need to be reorganized - and when - so that one can avoid outages...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Database Management, IBM IMS, It Management, Databases, It service Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Webcasts 2009-06-24
- Managing Iron With BMC Software and Sentry Software
- Systems, applications and virtual systems all rely on healthy hardware components. The attendee of this webcast will learn more about how BMC and Sentry can detect and isolate hardware failures in the servers and in the Storage Area Network SAN. The presenter will discover also which servers, switches or disk...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2009-06-18
- Learn About BMC's AlarmPoint Alert Management Platform and Watch the Product in Action
- Now, more than ever, organizations are feeling the pressure to do more with less while still accelerating core ITIL processes, reducing IT operations costs, and improving operational effectiveness. Alert Management can help companies combat the pressures of business initiatives by accurately and efficiently targeting and delivering critical service delivery and...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., It Management, ITIL, It service Management, It Services
- Webcasts 2009-06-11
- Expedite Your IPL and Shutdowns of z/OS Using BMC MAINVIEW for AutoOPERATOR Component Total Object Manager (TOM)
- The attendee of this webcast will learn how "One button" concept will expedite both IPL and shutdown - this is just one of the new features introduced in MAINVIEW Total Object Manager 2.1 a component of MAINVIEW AutoOPERATOR. The attendee will discover how to optimize the overall automation by taking...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., IBM z/OS, BMC MAINVIEW, It Management, It service Management
- Webcasts 2009-06-10
- Towards Quality of Service in the Cloud
- Quality of Service QoS plays a critical role in the affective reservation of resources within service oriented distributed systems and has been widely investigated in the now well established paradigm of Grid Computing. The emergence of a new paradigm, Cloud Computing, continues the natural evolution of Distributed Systems to cater...
- Tags: QoS, Grid Computing, University Of Leeds, Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, Network Technology, It Management, Networking, It service Management
- White papers 2009-06-10
- 10 things to know about Grid Infrastructure
- Access this Complimentary Report to better understand the benefits of a grid infrastructure and learn how to employ strategies and best practice that can ensure a graceful, gradual and successful Grid Computing implementation.
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Cloud Computing, Utility Computing, It Management, Network Technology, Microsoft Office, It service Management, Networking, Office Suites, Software
- White papers 2009-06-08
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