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	How John Hancock Financial Services plans to overhaul IT financial management practices with HP software John Hancock Financial Services IT executive discusses the firm's plans to better track IT assets, services and costs with in-house processes and products from HP. Read More WEBCAST: HP Metzler: Virtualization and the Network Manager The networks manager's role has changed significantly over the years. This Webcast highlights survey results of 460 IT pros and their experiences with network management. Learn how network automation is helping to address the unique challenges of both physical and virtual environments. Learn more In this Issue Apple's iPad: can it rise to enterprise IT demands? Gartner: CIOs don't expect IT recovery Forrester: Tech downturn 'unofficially over' The blind side: What network monitoring tools don't see Security, network management vendors add log, compliance capabilities WhatsUp Gold buys Windows security management vendor SolarWinds buys Tek-Tools for storage resource management SolarWinds makes available free configuration change management tool Free cloud-based device configuration tool keeps networks compliant WHITE PAPER: Qwest Network Managed Services: A Cost-Effective Approach to Complexity The new era of networked applications and interconnected business processes yields heightened efficiency and productivity for enterprises. However, these benefits can be realized only with properly managed, scalable networks. Outsourcing network management tasks to a third party allows companies to save time and drive substantially lower total cost of ownership. Learn more! Apple's iPad: can it rise to enterprise IT demands? After 90 minutes of Apple iPad superlatives, demonstrations, and slick videos, which didn't quite mask a distinct sense of disappointment among his listeners on the Web, Apple CEO Steve Jobs ended his unveiling http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/012710-its-official-jobs-announces-apples.html with the billion-dollar question: "Do we have what it takes to establish a third category of products?" Enterprise IT departments are trying to figure out how to answer him. Read More Gartner: CIOs don't expect IT recovery Gartner estimates 2010 IT budgets in the U.S. will be 2.5% higher than 2009, which is on par with 2005 budgets. Read More Forrester: Tech downturn 'unofficially over' Forrester Research forecast for high-tech spending in 2010 promises a return to purchasing after a dismal downturn caused many cutback in 2009. Read More WHITE PAPER: Compuware The Definitive Guide to APM In this Application Performance Management eBook, get hands-on, practical insight into industry best practices for managing your critical applications from an end-to-end perspective. Find out how to manage performance from the distributed front-end of IT operations to the mainframe back-end, while keeping the end-user experience in mind. Read Now. The blind side: What network monitoring tools don't see Enterprise Management Associates study, commissioned by Anue Systems, shows that many network and security operations professionals lack the visibility they need to optimize network, application and IT service availability and performance. Read More Security, network management vendors add log, compliance capabilities Security vendor Tripwire develops technology to take on security event and log management, while Ipswitch's network management division WhatsUp Gold acquires Dorian Software to address customer compliance demands. Read More WhatsUp Gold buys Windows security management vendor WhatsUp Gold acquires Dorian Software to augment its network management software suite with security event and log management capabilities. Read More WHITE PAPER: Force10 Podcast: The Future of Network Design Virtualization will forever change the way networks are designed and built. Are you ready? Get expert advice on how to prepare for data center networking in the virtualization era. Discover where virtualization is headed on the network; strategic initiatives you must undertake; and more. Learn More Now SolarWinds buys Tek-Tools for storage resource management SolarWinds spends $42 million to acquire assets of Tek-Tools and add storage resource management to its network management product portfolio. Read More SolarWinds makes available free configuration change management tool SolarWinds Tuesday announced it had added another free tool to its product portfolio. SolarWinds Network Config Generator, designed to automate configuration change tasks, is the most recent application the network management company plans to offer for free.20 free software favorites Read More Free cloud-based device configuration tool keeps networks compliant Imagine being able to check network device configurations against guidelines set by the equipment makers themselves, Cisco and Juniper in particular. Imagine being able to validate these configurations without installing any software on-premise. Now imagine being able to do this for free. That's what Intelliden is offering with the launch of iAudit, a cloud-based application that validates device configuration... Read More
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