IT Management


Workloads Return Home to the Mainframe

Workloads are coming back to the mainframe, as BI powerhouse Informatica demonstrated last month

Opsware: Taking the Pain Out of Network Management

Opsware brings its automation-centric focus to network management

Q&A: Opsware’s Utility-Computing Trump Card

Even though HP, IBM, and Sun have monopolized the utility-computing limelight, Opsware believes it has a trump card up its sleeve

Network Downtime: The Silent Killer

Network outages cost organizations tens of millions of dollars annually

Case Study: Bypassing Performance False Alarms

How a prominent hospital was able to increase the productivity of its IT staff and pay for itself all in about two months

Q&A: CA—Utility Computing Dark Horse

Utility computing isn’t a rip-and-replace proposition, says CA

Sun Unveils Updated OS, New Services, Aggressive Chip Strategy

These days, Sun has a pronounced bounce in its step—enough to give many Solaris administrators that old late-1990’s feeling again



BMC Cuts False Performance Alerts to Zero

BMC says its new performance-monitoring software can help reduce false alerts—and sleep-shattering beeper pages—by almost 100 percent

CICS: The Old Workhorse Keeps on Kicking

Big Blue’s durable workhorse still has plenty of kick left in it. And customers, for that matter, are increasingly willing to deploy it in support of new workloads

Desktop Linux Poised for Breakthrough

Novell sees a sizeable upside to Linux on the desktop—and hints that the sun might soon set on Microsoft’s Windows empire

CA Revamps, Refocuses Unicenter Mainframe Line

CA touts ongoing initiative to modernize, simplify, and integrate its Unicenter mainframe software line

IT Spending Poised for Modest Rebound, Analysts Say

Managers laud expanding budgets, but say they’re under more pressure to cost-justify new projects and stretch IT dollars

Emerging Trends in Managing IT Service

Financial Services is an application-intensive industry uniquely reliant on end-user system availability.

Managing the Application Lifecycle to Reduce Risk and Trim Costs

Organizations embrace outsourcing without thinking about how they’re going to manage external applications and services

IT Budget Survey Results Released

From next year’s growing (or shrinking) budgets to hot spots for new investment, our survey shows how IT will be spending 2005’s funding.

Determining the Value and ROI of an Enterprise Portal, Part 2

We examine how to value a portal investment, examining both the tangible and "soft" benefits of the technology. We'll also look at the buy-versus-build debate, and factors to consider in determining a portal's ROI.

Determining the Value and ROI of an Enterprise Portal, Part 1

As the portal market becomes increasingly more competitive, the vendor choices grow to be even more complex. We discuss the value of an enterprise portal and methods for determining its return on investment.

Careers: IT Hiring Forecasts Still Too Close to Call

There’s little agreement about the prospectus for IT hiring—but there’s also little doubt that outsourcing is a hit

Growing Your IT Budget with Communication

IT organizations can take steps to increase their standing with business leaders and grow their IT budgets—but how many are actually doing so?

Big Blue Trumpets ARM With Help from Siebel

The ARM standard is designed to help simplify transaction performance monitoring for Web applications