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- Systems Management
- (1) Software that manages computer systems in an enterprise, which may include any and all of the following functions: software distribution and upgrading, user profile management, version control, backup &...
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- TechNet Webcast: System Center Essentials 2007 Technical Overview (Level 300)
- Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 is a new management solution in the Microsoft System Center family of IT systems management products specifically designed for mid-sized businesses. This webcast describes some of the mid-market challenges IT administrators may face and discuss how System Center Essentials 2007 addresses those challenges. Then it...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Systems Management, Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- Webcasts 2008-02-01
- Admin Arsenal (exe)
- Admin Arsenal is an agentless systems management tool providing hardware/software inventory, software distribution, remote commands, remote control, and monitoring for a fraction of the price of similar systems. For years systems management programs have made it difficult to perform even the simplest management tasks. We know because we've supported many...
- Tags: Systems Management, Admin Arsenal, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-12-26
- International Conferences Uses Virtual Technology for Remote Systems Management
- To avoid the high cost of implementing servers at every location, the team needed to find an effective way to take advantage of the physical servers that were already in place in Sydney. The team also needed a solution that had high availability and automatic failover, and that would be...
- Tags: Team, Microsoft Corp., Systems Management, Team Management, Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Zenoss, rPath join on open source systems management appliances
- Open source systems management ISV Zenoss will reveal this week a partnership with rPath that will enable it to deliver VMware appliances in the VMware marketplace. The Annapolis, Maryland software company released its first set of application, server and network management appliances – one a hardware appliance,...
- Tags: Appliance, VMware Inc., Systems Management, Zenoss, Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Inside Amazon
- You're running one of the world's busiest e-commerce sites, handling up to 4 million checkouts per day. Response time is critical. Every page is customized on the fly using over 150 network services. And the system must manage failures of any component, including entire data centers. ...
- Tags: Availability, QoS, Intelligence, Amazon.com Inc., Systems Management, Dynamo, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Integrien deepens analytics, betters interop and userability in Q4's Alive 6.0 release
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: Integrien Corp. The movement of IT and systems management to the end-to-end business service value level has been a long time in coming. Yet the need has never been higher. Enterprises and on-demand application providers alike need to predict...
- Tags: Complexity, Performance, Analytics, Systems Management, Integrien, Run Book, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Financial Planning, It Services, Network Administration, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Networking, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007 (01)
- Essentials 2007 is a new management solution in the System Center family of IT systems management products specifically designed for midsized businesses. Essentials 2007 provides a unified management solution that enables IT professionals in midsize organizations to proactively manage their IT environment with increased efficiency.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Systems Management, Essentials 2007, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-03-07
- Datamonitor Decision Matrix: Selecting an IT Systems Management Vendor
- The increasing complexity of IT infrastructures, coupled with the pressure on IT departments to be more efficient has given rise to increasing demand from enterprises for IT systems management solutions that are better suited to their needs. Datamonitor has developed this Decision Matrix to help businesses select vendors based on...
- Tags: Information Technology, Datamonitor, Systems Management, Strategy, It Services, Network Administration, Management, Networking
- White papers 2007-03-01
- A Blueprint for Better Management From the Desktop to the Data Center
- The authors plan to increase their support of the open source development community by creating an open systems management architecture that encourages innovation with respect to the higher-order problems of distributed systems management. They invite the readers to think big about code that manages storage for thousands of Virtual Machines...
- Tags: Desktop, Novell Inc., Data Center, Systems Management, It Services, Network Administration, Data Centers, Open Source, Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-02-01
- TechNet Webcast: Server Management (Part 3 of 3): Looking Ahead to System Center (Level 200)
- The presenter of this webcast explores how Contoso transitions from Microsoft Operations Manager MOM 2005 to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, and from Microsoft System Management Server SMS 2003 R2 to Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. The presenter introduces the other members of the System Center family of systems management...
- Tags: Server Management, Webcast, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Systems Management, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- Webcasts 2007-01-12
- Proactive Maintenance and Adaptive Power Management Using Dell OpenManage Systems Management for VMware DRS Clusters
- This paper provides a framework for integrating Dell OpenManage systems management and VirtualCenter, using VMware SDK. Individual servers are aggregated to form cluster resources. Servers can be dynamically added or removed to be a part of the cluster resource based on either the current utilization of the cluster or health...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Power Management, Server, VMware Inc., Systems Management, Dell OpenManage, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2006-12-01
- TechNet Webcast: Agility Now (Part 10 of 10): Looking Ahead to System Center (Level 200)
- The presenter of this webcast will cover the Contoso's transition from Microsoft Operations Manager to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager and from System Management Server 2003 R2 to System Center Configuration Manager. The presenter also introduces the other members of the System Center family of systems management products and solutions,...
- Tags: Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft TechNet, Systems Management, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- Webcasts 2006-11-08
- Streamlining and Enhancing Systems Management With Symantec
- When one of London's leading undergraduate and research universities needed a new systems management solution to manage its campus-wide network, it turned to Symantec. Deployed in only six weeks, Symantec LiveState Client Management Suite is being used to support the provisioning, configuring, patching and recovering of more than 500 PCs...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Systems Management, University, Automated Processing, It Services, Network Administration, Security, Networking
- Case studies 2006-11-07
- Business Value of BMC Distributed Systems Management Solutions
- Most system management professionals will find themselves facing one or more of the following financial challenges at some point in their IT careers, namely justifying - investing in systems management software for the first time, an existing investment in systems management software, an upgrade, extending an investment in systems management...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Distributed System, Reality, Systems Management, Systems Management Software, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2006-10-16
- The commoditization of systems management
- The commoditization of systems managementHyperic and systems management commoditizationHi Phil,Don't write off agents entirely ;)Hyperic has addressed many of the issues you bring up.http://www.hyperic.org/blog/hyperic/?p=38-John MarkCommunity DevelopmentHyperic, Inc.Big Vendors also are AgentlessPhil,I agree that traditionally companies like BMC Software PATROL, Tivoli, CA and HP provided agent based systems management solutions. But...
- Tags: IT Services, Network administration, Software as a Service (SaaS), systems management, agent, commoditization, BMC Software Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- A Functional Comparison of Systems Management Tools From IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell
- To get the most value out of the technology investment throughout its life cycle, one needs smart, effective systems management that can help ensure high availability while minimizing the ongoing ownership costs. This paper evaluates the x86 hardware platform management products from IBM, Hewlett-Packard HP, and Dell, and how these...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Hardware, IBM Corp., Systems Management, Hardware Platform Manager, It Services, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2006-09-26
- The commoditization of systems management
- One of the most telling advantages of the on-demand model shows through in the case of applications that depend on multiple external inputs, because the on-demand model allows the vendor to share those input connections across the customer base. For example, take Employease, an on-demand HR management system that handles...
- Tags: agent, Klir Technologies, systems management
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- COSMOS: IBM, Cisco, Intel, HP and others propose to unify systems management tools
- The mission of the proposed COSMOS Project COmmunity Systems Management Open Source is to create a standard tools platform upon which software developers can create inter-operable system management tools and plug-ins. "Systems management" encompasses such diverse activities as health monitoring, inventory tracking, deployment modeling, configuration change tracking, and so...
- Tags: COSMOS, monitoring, tool
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Does GridApp have the silver bullet of database provisioning and management?
- Systems management has always been something of a black art for businesses. They start off with good intentions. You know the ones I'm talking about where, much the same way SouthWest Airlines flies only one kind of jet, businesses attempt to standardize all of their technology to make it...
- Tags: database
- Blog posts 2006-07-20
- When will open source compete with Tivoli?
- Some of the fattest margins in the proprietary software world exist in systems management.IBM Tivoli, H-P, CA and BMC have no full open source competitors. Yes, there are many projects out there which can do part of what these suites can do, but if a medium-sized company needs a full...
- Tags: systems management, open source
- Blog posts 2006-07-10
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