Top Systems Management News
Morgan Stanley, as reported by The Financial Times, is tying its promise to provide financing to hedge fund clients to the price of credit insurance on its own debt, it said. If the cost of the protection rises to a certain level, that would trigger a reduction in Morgan Stanley's commitments to hedge funds.
News
Expected to be one of the fastest computers in the world, the University of Toronto and IBM Corp are building Canada's most powerful supercomputer. The supercomputer machine will need its own building and will be capable of performing 360 trillion calculations per second.
News
The ruling requires Comcast to cease impeding peer-to-peer applications, to tell the FCC how the practice has been used, and to notify customers about other network management practices it adopts in the future.
Article
Energy efficient products and cutting consumption costs.
Article
What to do with outdated equipment.
Article
Going green is a real business concern for many companies.
Article
Saving the world starts with saving a dollar—and I.T. is doing its part.
News
If your organization is spending more than 50 percent of its IT budget on maintenance, give serious consideration to setting up a position and staffing it with an outstanding IT engineer.
News
By searching data going out through your firewalls, a data monitoring appliance builds a searchable index that shows IT managers what kinds of unstructured, sensitive data are being sent out. Two companies are using the technology to help avoid customer data loss, thwart rogue-employee activity and stay in better compliance.
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Turn mountains of log data and analysis into actionable information with these ten free applications that every IT manager should know about.
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Here is some no-nonsense advice for implementing holistic systems management practices and tools in an organization.
News
An interview with Kathy Lane CIO of National Grid
Opinion
Baseline introduces the column "Surviving Complexity" from author and IT expert Bruce F. Webster. In this introductory article, Webster takes a closer look at metrics vis-a-vis IT projects.
Opinion
The demand for processing power is starting to outstrip our ability to cost-effectively power it.
News
Developers working on business apps for the Apple iPhone are starting to look at what they can do with the iPhone software developer kit (SDK).