- Global Services: ITIL’s New Avatar
- Network IT Week: Manage networks, achieve success
- ComputerWorld: IBM, 3Com tout server, voice application combo
- Network Computing: SMASH – A SMASHing Success?
- Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Oracle Lays Out Busy Apps Road Map
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Global Services: ITIL’s New Avatar
“The revised ITIL is intended to better reflect the cradle-to-grave nature of IT services, and as such puts greater emphasis on the business case for IT services. It focuses more on the integration between IT and the business, as opposed to the earlier version, which was unwieldy and expensive to implement.”
Network IT Week: Manage networks, achieve success
“A sure-fire way to help customers increase network performance is to deploy a strong network management suite. Being able to take stock of what is installed in every remote branch office from a busy headquarters environment relieves some of the pressure of managing the network and promotes monitoring for change. This means customers’ IT managers can spend more time being pro-active and less time fire-fighting.”
ComputerWorld: IBM, 3Com tout server, voice application combo
“In typical VoIP deployments, customers find they need multiple server boxes, one for each function in VoIP, such as messaging or conference-calling. But the combined IBM and 3Com initiative reduces the hardware to one system, IBM and 3Com officials said.”
Network Computing: SMASH – A SMASHing Success?
“Most vendors integrating SMASH into their products have committed to doing so beginning this year; system administrator response will be the next step toward acceptance of the standard. Considering their rate of adoption of management technologies in servers today, SMASH faces an uphill battle.”
Intelligent Enterprise Magazine: Oracle Lays Out Busy Apps Road Map
Oracle EVP John Wookey said “each of the ongoing product lines will start to incorporate Oracle’s own enterprise search, XML reporting tool, role-based analytics and integration of vertical expertise. He also reaffirmed prior ‘good citizenship’ promises to support outside databases. Likewise, the company has pledged to support outside application servers and middleware in its databases and applications.”
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