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Where to turn for low-cost help desk management

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Where to turn for low-cost help desk management
When the big guns of service management software are too pricey for your budget and demanding of your staffing resources, where do you turn? Read More


RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: IBM

Keep Your Applications Up & Running
IBM Tivoli® Foundations Application Manager provides entry-level monitoring for the growing medium-sized organization looking for an easy-to-use cost-effective solution. It provides capabilities to implement application management, including IT asset discovery, network monitoring, server monitoring, and monitoring for key IT elements. Click to continue

WEBCAST: NeuStar, Inc.

10 Must-Do's for a Profitable Selling Season
The e-tailing group will ensure your team is ready to realize your maximum share of holiday dollars by highlighting best practices drawn from the e-tailing group Mystery Shopping and Mindset of a Multi-Channel studies. Learn More

Virtualization wars: Is MS sneaking into more VMware shops?
Even within enterprise data centers, where automation, high-level management and high availability often trump cost as buying criteria, free is a hard price to refuse, even for technology as complex and interconnected as virtual servers. Read More

Employees cranky about Web browsing restrictions
Workers who can't browse certain Web sites or access particular networks at the office are voicing their complaints, says staffing firm Robert Half Technology. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent

Synchronization in Microwave Networks
Convergence towards packet-transport presents multiple challenges- carry existing TDM traffic while scaling to handle higher capacities and new IP services. The Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MPR provides a unique solution enabling transformation to all-IP and supporting a mix of synchronization solutions. Read Now

iPad lures business users in law, medicine and other fields
Doctors, lawyers and businesspeople are using iPads to ease their workloads, but many observers say Apple's tablet isn't ready to replace laptops for functions such as writing long documents. Read More

Citrix buys VMLogix
Citrix plans to announce Monday that it will buy VMLogix as part of a larger push to offer more self-service tools and address concerns like vendor lock-in facing enterprises using the cloud. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Alcatel - Lucent

A 'hands-free' approach to optical networking
With unmatched scalability and performance, Alcatel-Lucent has a future-proof, Carrier-grade WDM solution which enables the flexibility, intelligence and reduced time to revenue data centers require and offers key tools for successful deployment: training, network management, spares and support. Read now

HP acquires automation vendor Stratavia
HP says Stratavia's technologies will help enterprise customers to simplify the deployment and management of applications in hybrid IT environments, including physical, virtual and cloud environments. Read More

The potential challenges of virtual appliances
In our last newsletter we discussed some of the benefits of virtual appliances. In this newsletter we will discuss some of the potential challenges that are associated with virtual appliances. Read More

Gartner: Web content management a billion-dollar business
Gartner now considers Web content management to be an integral part of most enterprises. Read More

Hyper 9 offers new take on virtualization management
Hyper9 has launched a new dashboard aimed at providing a true account of the running costs of a virtual environment. Read More

 
 
 

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