| IP address management projects not a priority for IT Corporate networks depend on IP to run smoothly, but that doesn't mean projects designed to streamline IP address management (IPAM) processes get top priority in most IT shops, survey results reveal. Tools cure IP address management headaches IP address management tools aren't sexy, but they can certainly take the tedium out of the necessary and difficult task of tracking IP addresses and DNS names across an enterprise network. Justifying the payoff of IP address management IP address management (IPAM) is one of those areas that continues to grow in importance as TCP/IP becomes the de-facto standard for corporate networks. It's also an area that is just recently starting to see an appropriate level of automation. A new paper by Infoblox, available here, examines this need for automated management in detail. According to Greg Lanier, Infoblox director of marketing communications: "It's kind of mind blowing that most people are still doing this on spreadsheets. You shouldn't be managing some of your most critical network assets with Excel." How we tested IP address management tools The Proteus/Adonis, VitalQIP, and IPControl product have professional services included in their prices. We scheduled a time for a representative professional engineer to come to our lab and set up their product. Only one company was allowed at a time. With EasyIP, we set up a Windows Server 2003 machine with IIS and .Netv1.1 and then installed the EasyIP software. The next step was to populate the product’s database with the test data which we accomplished through the data import/export test. Whirlpool gives IP address management a spin While Whirlpool focuses on the business of making kitchen and laundry appliances, lead network engineer Gregory Fisbeck keeps his eye on thousands of IP addresses. IP Address Management Product Guide A guide to finding and buying IP Address Management tools. Podcast: The Graying of Consumer Technology A new Accenture survey shows that Baby Boomers are embracing popular consumer technology at a higher rate than their Generation Y counterparts. Keith Shaw talks with Kumu Puri, a senior executive with Accenture's Consumer Technology industry group, about the graying of consumer technology, and the new opportunities created by this trend. (12:45) Good Business Intelligence Can Help With the Right Cuts Before companies make any cuts during a downturn, using IT to help strategize which reductions will be effective is one way CIOs can prove their worth.
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