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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

InfoWorld Daily: Boost productivity without stifling creativity

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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

* Boost productivity without stifling creativity
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Next wave of systems management

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BOOST PRODUCTIVITY WITHOUT STIFLING CREATIVITY

Careers: Bob Lewis helps one reader to find the balance between IT
prudishness and permissiveness. The reader wants one set of tools that
would make him productive while his colleagues are calling for other
products, so there's a need to exercise some control without killing
creativity. "I generally prefer to err on the side of test labs while
avoiding the extreme of having no standards at all," Lewis advises. "I
agree that "productivity" by itself isn't likely to pay for expensive
functionality ... but a lot of what I'm talking about isn't expensive at
all, especially when you unitize it... ...

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NEXT WAVE OF SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Best of the blogs: Call it 'managing in the open.' The 451 Group does,
Gartner has touched upon the same theme, and IT Troubelshooter blogger
Harper Mann agrees as well. "Open source network and systems monitoring
and management vendors have been beating the drum with this message for
a number of quarters," Mann writes. That includes those anointed the Big
Four, otherwise known as BMC, CA, HP, and IBM. Security: Black Hat kicks
off this week with a twist. The conference's focus is more on
application security than Internet viruses, mirroring "the change in
threats on the security landscape, with... ...

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