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- Supporting Top Digital Country's Use of Microsoft Windows Vista With Symantec Enterprise Security and system management Software
- Fulton County, Georgia, testing Microsoft Windows Vista since 2005, has required that Symantec solutions be deployed with Vista to enhance virus protection and streamline overall system management. The solutions have reduced imaging time by 50 percent, PC deployment by 78 percent, and required staff to roll out computers by 75...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Enterprise Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., System Management, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2007-05-18
- New alliance seeks mass market system management
- I hate being a system manager. Yet I, like millions of other consumers and business owners, inherited the chore once we installed simple networks for kids or employees.Most of us do a very poor job. Proprietary tools are expensive and difficult to use. Open source has some interesting projects underway,...
- Tags: system management
- Blog posts 2006-05-12
- WebSphere Application Server V6: system management Problem Determination
- WebSphere Application Server configuration is maintained in XML files. The XML files are maintained in a directory structure that reflects the topology of your WebSphere Application Server installation The WebSphere administrative console and the wsadmin command line administration tool read, maintain, and modify the contents of the XML files. This...
- Tags: IBM WebSphere, Application Server, XML, XML File, System Management, IBM WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application Server Configuration, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-09-30
- FEEDBACKFLOW - An Adaptive Workflow Generator for system management
- This paper describes a prototypical framework that further automates system management by composing complex management tasks from elementary actions, and executing composite tasks with feedback-awareness. FEEDBACKFLOW implements a general closed control loop of planning - execution - result validation - replanning, and generates workflows of system management actions in an...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., System Management, FEEDBACKFLOW, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-09-19
- SOA + BPO = Chaos
- SOA and BPO business process outsourcing aren't a natural match, apparently. Some think the two together can even unleash the forces of chaos. Writing in Information Week, Howard Baldwin describes a financial-services firm's risk management application that blew apart and failed to time and economic savings that were promised. ...
- Tags: system-management application, business process, Howard Baldwin
- Blog posts 2005-09-13
- Dell's OpenManage Approach to system management: Simplification Through Standards and Partnerships
- System management is an essential requirement for the successful deployment and productive use of server hardware, server operating systems, and applications software. Increasingly, system hardware vendors are being judged on the manageability of their platforms from a number of different perspectives, including configuration, provisioning, deployment, availability, performance, change management, and...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Partnership, Standards, System Management, International Data Group, Dell OpenManage, Business Structures, Change Management, Quality, Finance, Tools & Techniques, Management, Business Operations
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Five Ways to Simplify system management
- People know the drill: Reduce IT costs, improve service, and deal with greater complexity. With companies relying more heavily on IT for critical business processes, how does the company accomplish these goals? This webcast discusses how to succeed despite these constraints, improve operational efficiency, and drive peak performance by leveraging...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., System Management, Operational Planning, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
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- Dynamic documents as two-way end points help bind people and processes to SOA
- Read the full paper. Listen to the podcast. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Making services oriented architecture SOA a fixture across larger swaths of enterprise IT and business processes has grown into a top goal. Finding additional innovation to amplify a SOA's value is therefore always welcome. ...
- Tags: Document, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- XP meets XO: Will Linux get an equal shot?
- The One Laptop Per Child program will put XP on its XO laptop and children in the developing world will have a choice between Windows and Linux. On the surface, a little choice isn't going to kill anybody. In fact, choice is good. And if some poor...
- Tags: Operating System, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, XP Screen, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- News to know: XP meets XO; Yahoo; Facebook; Verdiem; DIY phishing
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO. Christopher Dawson: Sugar-free Windows, as predicted Microsoft cuts backup from Windows Home Server PowerPack Larry Dignan: Icahn launches Yahoo proxy fight; Mark Cuban's return?...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Privacy, TechMeme, Icahn, Phishing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Viruses And Worms, Spam And Phishing, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Frenemies
- Enterprises both large and small are psychologically complex places. Industrial and organizational psychologists are full of fascinating anecdotes about the ways the individual people that make up an enterprise organize themselves to hinder, help, block or share with one another. A common term in Hollywood is ‘Frenemies'...
- Tags: Collaboration, Environment, Rivalry, Silo, Groupware, Productivity, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Stonesoft Security in Virtual Environments
- As I mentioned in the post, Virtualization and security, quite a number of suppliers focused on security in virtualized environments have come forward to speak with me in the past month. Stonesoft is one of those companies. Mark Boltz, Senior Solutions Architect, and Greg Mead, Solutions Architect, both of Stonesoft,...
- Tags: Network, Environment, Stonesoft, Stonegate Management Center, Security, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Introduction to BIT
- This is the 1st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Introduction This book is designed for people who interact with, but do not want to become, professional information systems...
- Tags: Information System, Bear, Computer, Business Owner, Systems Decision, Dick, Jane, Systems Culture, Productivity, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature
- There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...
- Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Does 'SOA lifecycle management' say it better than 'SOA governance'?
- Oh what a difference five years makes. Back in the good old days, 2002-03, IT people at the time our ancestors were fascinated with this new approach called "service oriented architecture," which would make integration faster and cheaper and less onerous. Now that many companies have services in production, they...
- Tags: Lifecycle Management, SOA, SOA Governance, Miko, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Verdiem spruces up its Survey PC power management software
- Verdiem, one of the better known developers of power management software that counts Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Microsoft among its close partners, has delivered an impressive upgrade to its Surveyor technology. According to the Seattle-based company, the focus was on providing IT managers with even more configuration flexibility than previously available....
- Tags: Software, Power Management, PC, Power Consumption, Survey, Verdiem, Desktops, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- It's finally official: XP is coming to the XO
- Microsoft's participation in the One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has been fraught with mystery and disinformation from the get-go. But on May 15, Microsoft officials finally gave the OLPC project Redmond's official blessing. Up to this point, OLPC Chief Nicholas Negroponte preannounced Microsoft's every move on...
- Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Collaboration 2.0...
- For the last couple of years I've been in the trenches managing a sizeable collaboration space across three continents for a large multinational enterprise. The diplomacy, strategy, tactics and sheer hard work of managing, building and running this type of space can be all consuming, particularly with...
- Tags: Strategy, Web, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0, Groupware, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand
- Yahoo's board has responded to activist investor Carl Icahn: "Your letter reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal." That letter--delivered by Icahn earlier Thursday Techmeme--has one theme: Yahoo's board botched the Microsoft deal and hasn't served shareholder interest. In its...
- Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Stockholder, Proposal, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Judge: Possible 'manifest error of law' in Thomas case
- In a huge break in the Capitol v. Thomas case – in which Jammie Thomas right was hit with a $220,000-plus verdict for copyright infringement – the judge in the case said he may have made a "manifest error of law" in his instructions to the jury. ...
- Tags: Distribution, RIAA, Judge, Mr., Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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