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• Agentless monitoring improvements make it competitive with agent-based solutions

  The argument over agent-based versus agentless monitoring has been going on for years. What works best for your IT infrastructure? Increasing market interest in agentless monitoring has resulted in combined solutions using both technologies as ... Continue Reading

• Business service management forces systems management evolution

  Business service management (BSM) initiatives have forced systems management to improve IT operations staffs' productivity through an emphasis on better integration, automation, simplification, and visibility. Continue Reading

• BMC boasts business service management bundle

  With new and upgraded business service management (BSM) software, BMC aims to help companies connect IT to the business. Continue Reading

• Service level management software gets interesting

  When service level management software first arrived on the scene it was mostly a reporting tool with a pretty dashboard. But new SLM approaches can either integrate existing tools or employ a single consolidated monitoring architecture to control ... Continue Reading

• Change and configuration management cut firm's downtime

  State Street Corp., one of the largest financial firms in the country, implemented change and configuration management software and hasn't had any configuration-related downtime since. Continue Reading

• Controlling configuration and change management: IT process controls

  Lead researcher for IT Process Institute, Gene Kim, speaks with SearchDataCenter about change and configuration management.Continue Reading

• Lights out management: How to administer servers from the Bahamas

  While there are many solutions out there to aid an administrator in remote management, I've found the lights out management (LOM) built into many modern servers is superior to many of the alternatives.Continue Reading

• TPC-C benchmark gives way to OLTP successor

  The Transaction Processing Performance Council has a new transaction performance benchmark that it says is more real-world.Continue Reading

• Automating server management and IT processes

  Server automation can free up data center resources to focus on higher-value activities. This tip provides some suggestions for getting started by automating low level IT processes.Continue Reading

• Log management eases SAS 70 auditing burden

  Software delivery firm Intraware uses Splunk, a log management tool, to search log files and generate reports for SAS 70 auditors, saving time on SOX compliance.Continue Reading

• HP server management software tracks power usage

  HP has upgraded Insight Control, its server management software, to include a power management tool, and to alert data center managers when hardware warranties are about to expire.Continue Reading

• A general list of data center cost components

  Data center strategy specialist Charles King offers one reader a list of questions and considerations for setting up and running a data center.Continue Reading

• Database support for data center managers

  Unix expert King Ables illustrates the fundamentals of managing database systems in your data center.Continue Reading

• Systems management checklist: Software upgrades

  Software upgrades are an inevitable part of using technology, and it is likely that even the smallest upgrade will alter your system in some way. Although these changes are simply the price, for example, of security patches or better compatibility, ...Continue Reading

• HP's data center consolidation provides management insights

  HP plans to reign in apps and hardware configurations for its in-house data center consolidation project. Execs offer more specifics and strategies on the company's move from 85 facilities down to six.Continue Reading