Animus Solutions, a vendor-neutral provider of IT asset management and service management consulting, and RF Code, a leader in automating physical asset tracking, announced an alliance that will help organizations incorporate the use of active RFID extensively into a broad range of IT asset processes. These processes include asset identification and tracking for instant inventory and audit. … [Read more...]
TrendPoint’s Four-Point Plan For Green Data Centers
TrendPoint Systems, a leader in data center energy management solutions announced a four-point plan aimed at dramatically reducing energy costs and carbon emissions at data centers. A recent study by McKinsey & Co. predicted that data centers will surpass the airline industry as the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 and called for data centers to double their energy … [Read more...]
Microsoft’s Virtual Machine Manager Release in September
Microsoft's answer to VMware's systems-management product will be released commercially in September according to Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer. These remarks are in contrast to those made by Diane Prescott, product manager for System Center. She said on the team blog that Virtual Machine Manager 2008 would be released in the fourth quarter of 2008. This however contradicted … [Read more...]
Accenture IT Green Maturity Assessment
Accenture has released the Accenture Green Technology Suite. It is a set of tools to help an organization assess its environmental standing and provide some recommendations to reduce its carbon footprint by improving the way IT is managed. The flash based tool gives a view across the entire IT organization. It provides detailed assessments of where the company is within a maturity spectrum and … [Read more...]
ASG’s Newest Business Service Management Solution
ASG Software Solutions, the originator of ASG's Business Service Platform™ (BSP™), a true platform for Business Service Management (BSM), has expanded its BSP capabilities to seamlessly integrate key performance information from both distributed and mainframe environments. The new BSP solutions responsible for this enhanced functionality include specific products for distributed performance … [Read more...]
EDA Wants Macs In Windows Environments
A group of five enterprise software companies announced the creation of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) to facilitate the acceptance of the Mac in environments managed with Microsoft Windows. The EDA will be hosting a series of events, including seminars and Webcasts, and will provide white papers, product information and other resources on the EDA web site. “Interest in the Mac at … [Read more...]
New Microsoft Select Plus Licensing Program
On July 1st Microsoft announced a new licensing program designed for large organizations with multiple affiliates. Called Select Plus, it is another sign that Microsoft is trying to reign in its complex licensing system. If a company has several affiliates in different locations, Select Plus will enable your affiliates to take advantage of price-level adjustments that are based on the actual … [Read more...]
Nagios Free Network Monitoring Software
Budget conscious IT departments such as those in smaller organizations may be interested in Nagios. It is an open source network monitoring software solution that operates under the Linux operating system. Service Detail View Tree Status Map From their web site Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of … [Read more...]
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