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• Remote server administration tools: Manage your data center from a distance

  New systems management options are making it easier for administrators to manage servers via smartphones and laptops. Continue Reading

• Systems management tools: Microsoft takes aim at the Big Four

  Microsoft systems management tools have come a long way in a short time. Should the Big Four be worried? Continue Reading

• What is the Puppet configuration management tool, and how does it work?

  The Puppet configuration management tool is an open source alternative to costly commercial products. Puppet co-founder Andrew Shafer discusses the tool's use in the data center. Continue Reading

• ITSM basics: Implementing change management processes

  What are the benefits of implementing change management? And what are the common problems that arise when an IT organization implements change management processes? Continue Reading

• Indemnification, support woes plague open source systems management

  With a recession and growing enterprise acceptance of open source, open source systems management tools should do well. But many IT managers prefer proprietary tools. Continue Reading

• Configuration management skills are vital to going green in the data center

  Understanding the current state of your data center is the key to improving power consumption. Armed with current information about configuration items, you can make the informed decisions to make your data center operate more efficiently.Continue Reading

• HP updates management software: News in brief

  HP updated its Business Service Automation software package with management features, and Micron Technologies validated its DDR3 memory for Intel's Xeon Nehalem processor.Continue Reading

• IT shops pick point management tools to cut staff, speed installs

  Small systems management companies aim their point products at practitioners rather than senior IT managers to encourage enterprises with large management frameworks to switch.Continue Reading

• Siemens Healthcare cuts IT problem management downtime

  Siemens Healthcare cuts IT downtime with standard process for identifying and classifying root causes of outages; database helps to pinpoint trends.Continue Reading

• Using HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 5.2 for systems management and monitoring

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) Co.'s Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 5.2 offers systems management and monitoring for HP servers or WMI-, SNMP- or WBEM-enabled systems. SIM works with HP's Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) management modules to detect hardware ...Continue Reading

• HP adds server management, efficiency features to reduce IT costs

  Hewlett-Packard has enhanced its Insight Dynamics -- VSE software with software tools that simplify virtual machine and physical server management, add efficiency, and reduce IT costs.Continue Reading

• Turn to collaborative tools for systems performance management

  Seeking assistance outside of your immediate IT team has a long history. Collaboration efforts today can be grouped into two categories: sharing configuration and group problem solving. Both enable collaboration beyond the firewall, pulling in help ...Continue Reading

• Is effective performance management in the data center possible?

  Data centers are increasingly important to the delivery of business services, and performance management is more crucial than ever. IT's challenge is conducting performance management activities effectively and at low-cost. Key to maintaining ...Continue Reading

• With end-user performance management tool, credit union hones troubleshooting

  To deliver reliable online banking service, a credit union tracks end users' experience with Symphoniq's performance-monitoring tool.Continue Reading

• Best of breed vs. suite approach in systems management

  In systems management, which strategy trumps the other: best-of-breed tools or choosing tools from a single vendor?Continue Reading