Network/Systems Management News AlertThis newsletter is sponsored by Sterling CommerceNetwork World's Network/Systems Management News Alert, 08/28/07Podcast: How Consumer Tech Could Cripple IT: Employees adding Skype to a notebook or buying their own smart phone may seem harmless, but this growth in consumerization will be a nightmare for IT departments. New devices like the iPhone and consumer-based social networking tools can create a recipe for disaster. The old "search and destroy" methods won't work -- IT needs a new Zen-like approach to handling the "rogue end users" who infiltrate a company. Josh Holbrook, program manager for enterprise research at Yankee Group, discusses the issue with Keith Shaw. (18:24) MIT researchers invent clutter detector, 08/27/07: Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have come up with a way to measure visual clutter, a breakthrough that could help everyone from fighter pilots to Web site designers. Hot IT jobs: Systems administrator, 08/24/07: Job description: Systems administrators install, upgrade, monitor and maintain software and hardware to keep IT operations running smoothly. They often do data backup and recovery. In small IT departments, they are jacks-of-all-trades.
Microsoft sets Nov. ship date for Configuration Manager, 08/27/07: Microsoft Monday said development is complete on its System Center Configuration Manager 2007, a cornerstone in its model for managed IT systems, and that the management tool will ship in November. Tech solutions that keep customers satisfied, 08/24/07: Many entrepreneurs spend a lot of time and money trying to land new customers, an extremely important goal if you're trying to grow your business. But what are you doing to keep the customers you already have? Could deploying Google Apps be a career-limiting move?, 08/22/07: Deploying Google Apps could be a “career-limiting move for enterprise architects” if they expect too much from the software-as-a-service collaboration suite and its “rudimentary” feature set, the Burton Group research and consulting firm says in a new report. Design e-mail archives beyond legal discovery, 08/24/07: Corporations are racing against time to create archives that allow retrieval of e-mails in response to increasingly common civil suit discovery motions. Case study: Why ADP put virtualization on the back-burner, 08/20/07: Automated change management is critical first step on path toward real-time utility computing. |
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