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Partner Content

NetScout and analyst Jim Metzler have teamed to deliver a series of IT Briefs on Network and Application Performance Management leveraging research from NetScout’s nGenius & Sniffer users.

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Metzler on CIO Priorities

The top five CIO priorities based on a survey of NetScout users revealing CIOs' top priorities and what they think they should be. Also includes interviews with CIOs of large organizations.

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Metzler on Application Delivery

How to eliminate the stovepiped or siloed nature of application delivery from both an organization and a technological perspective.

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Metzler on Network Troubleshooting

Overview of network troubleshooting that provides an assessment of where we are, and where we need to be relative to the complexities of today's IT challenges.

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News
System Management News
'Leap second' snafu affects Oracle clusterware
The additional second that time-tracking scientists added to 2008 to adjust for the slowing of the earth's rotation is causing problems with Oracle's...
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The NOC on systems management
EMA recently completed a major landscape survey on network management, including updates on technologies, process, and organization affecting the...
PowerDesk software improved Matrox GXM multi-display use
Matrox Graphics on Monday announced the availability of PowerDesk, desktop management software intended for use with its Graphics Expansion Module...
File Integrity Monitoring: Secure Your Virtual and Physical IT Environments WHITEPAPER
Discover the capabilities your file integrity monitoring solution should have to effectively secure & control your virtual and physical IT...
Symantec enhances CommandCentral suite
Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec Corp. announced Monday enhancements to its storage optimization software suite that include "agentless" capabilities...
How to make big plans work out (even when many of them don't)
If you're one of the growing number of enlightened advocates for strategic change, or caught up in the middle of an initiative, or managing a...
Virtual management start-up grabs $4 million in VC cash
Virtualization management software maker Embotics closes $4 million Serious B round of venture capital financing, led by Covington Capital.
IT Service Management: Metrics That Matter WHITEPAPER
Download this whitepaper and learn from Gene Kim, well-known authority on IT processes, about the metrics that matter most toward improving...
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Gaining insight into security devices, SCADA networks
There is no shortage of data that can be collected across complex distributed networks, but often network managers are challenged to extract...
Lenovo announces a desktop alternative for secure managed PCs
Every organization is looking for ways to reduce the cost of end user computing and to make it more secure. According to Gartner, better management...
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Web site collects ideas for Obama's CTO
Barack Obama hasn't even appointed a chief technology officer yet, but thousands of people are using a new Web site to suggest and vote on ideas they...
Effective Security with a Continuous Approach to ISO 27001 Compliance WHITEPAPER
The ISO 27001 standard is primarily referred to as the Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification standard. Organizations that seek...
Novell's FOSSA architecture document out by December
Novell plans to publish later this month or in December the architecture document of FOSSA, its long-term strategy for the management and deployment...
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The quest for the perfect Content Management System
As the Web has grown, the problem of content management seems to have absorbed more time and energy than even the effort required to create actual...
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Cost reduction closely tied to solid IT service management strategy
Most IT organizations are working to put the days of firefighting and ad hoc processes behind them by adopting some type of IT service management...