By
Michael Biddick
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Mar 12, 2008
Our second entry in this Rolling Review, Lumension PatchLink, is ideal for cross-platform shops that don't mind agents
By
Mike Fratto -
Jan 11, 2008
Malware spreads fast, and the best risk management strategy is to not get bitten in the first place. Time to kick off our host-based NAC Rolling Review
By Phil Hippensteel
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Sep 7, 2007
Like a surveillance camera for the network, NI's appliance captures and replays traffic for auditing, forensics and troubleshooting.
By
Michael Biddick
and Darren Donahue
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Sep 4, 2007
In the second installment of our APM Rolling Review, we set out to see whether NetQoS' appliance lives up to its name.
By
David Strom
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Jul 7, 2007
Here are some of the more frustrating, unsolved networking problems that can get your blood boiling, in the opinion of our expert.
By Michael Caton
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Jun 8, 2007
The DMTF's desktop and mobile architecture for System Hardware aims to help administrators avoid some of the problems of out-of-band management.
By Michael Fudge Jr.
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Mar 16, 2007
Citrix adds application streaming to its portfolio,
enabling IT to run applications on the server or stream them to the client. The result: Enterprises can now use Citrix to manage graphic- and CPU-intensive applications in addition to traditional thin-client apps.
By
Steven Schuchart Jr. -
Mar 16, 2007
This start-up vendor's network-management appliances provide core automation, inventory and audit capabilities, plus OS and application provisioning. The products are easy to install, and best suited to small and midsize IT shops that mainly require desktop management.
About Network Computing's Network and Systems Management Channel
On Network Computing's Network and Systems Management Channel, our real-world technology editors cover the products and technologies that enable IT departments to manage and administer enterprise networks, systems and applications. NSM includes traditional functions, such as configuration management and network and traffic management and shaping. Also core to network management solutions -- including enterprise suites from vendors including BMC, Computer Associates, HP and IBM -- is the ability to analyze and diagnose network problems. But as IT has grown, NWC has also begun to cover NSM as a key business-enabling capability, with network and systems management systems encompassing new capabilities such as performance management and availability management to ensure that vital enterprise systems are ready and able to serve the business. Next-generation network and systems management solutions are moving up the value chain, being defined as vehicles for the intelligent integration of existing and planned management investments. NWC has covered this revolution extensively. Key to those new capabilities is the increased usage of CMDB, or configuration management database, to enable cross-domain analytics and integrated and consistent approaches to infrastructure and application discovery. Such more flexible NSM capabilities are even more important as new service oriented architectures (SOAs) emerge, forcing IT to manage more diverse, lightweight and disperse networks and applications then ever before. Check out our reviews, tests and analysis of management technologies and products, as well as the latest NSM news, white papers and featured sites on the topic of network and systems management.
