Making a case for application performance management Lots of folks talk about aligning IT with the business, but it's not always easy. Recent research from Aberdeen Group found that many companies don't know how applications are used in key business processes and can't easily determine how many users are impacted when there's an issue with application performance. Four in 10 CIOs slashed budgets in first quarter, Gartner reports The economy took a steep toll on IT budgets in the first quarter, CIOs tell Gartner. Managing PC power, data center and network device energy consumption SolarWinds partners with Cisco EnergyWise to track energy usage across IP devices, joining a slew of vendors tracking PC power, data center and network device energy consumption. Why invest in open source management apps now? Vendors are addressing scalability, security and support concerns that have deterred some IT teams from adopting open source management applications, Forrester Research says. Savvy management: Putting IT on a diet IT organizations with less budget money to spend could find ways to re-align existing technology and human resources to optimize services -- without making a large capital investment. Network usage climbs while IT budgets, staff remain down Network managers surveyed at Interop expect fewer budget cuts and staff reductions in coming months. Wanted for hire: generalists, not IT specialists Interop panelists say the less IT professionals focus on specific skills the more likely they will be hired to manage tomorrow's data centers. June Giveaways Cisco Subnet and Microsoft Subnet are giving away training from Global Knowledge to two lucky readers and 15 copies each of books on IPv6 security, the Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module, and Active Directory Domain Services 2008. Deadline for entries June 30. |
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