Senior Editor, Enterprise Applications
Responsibilities: To follow, report and write on management software and appliance vendors, products and services, as well as to cover IT spending and staffing news and issues.
Past experience: Worked at Application Development Trends, a monthly trade magazine, and The North Adams Transcript, a daily newspaper based in western Massachusetts.
How to reach: E-mail works best and early in the week for more timely news items. E-mail any time for trend or customer stories.
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IT pros sound off on managing applications
08/25/08
When asked recently about the priorities and challenges involved with managing applications, senior IT professionals had a
lot to say.
Could 'fat-tree' switch setup be key to trimming data center costs?
08/22/08
University of California San Diego computer science professor Amin Vahdat and his students used the SIGCOMM 2008 conference
in Seattle this week to propose a new way to build data centers that could save companies money and deliver more computing
capabilities.
Government agency plans big power savings with BigFix
08/20/08
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) estimates it can save between $750,000 and $50 million annually if a majority
of government agencies implement power management software that would enable IT to program computers to automatically shut
down during non-business hours.
Fluke Networks acquires Viola VoIP management assets
08/19/08
Fluke Networks' acquisition will enable the vendor to broaden its VoIP analysis capabilities and provide customers with pre-assessment,
active network-performance and call-manager monitoring and visibility features.
16 hot roles for IT pros
08/18/08
Forrester Research assesses the most important skills needed in IT today and how CIOs should contract out or cultivate candidates
based on the talent they have in-house.
Network behavior analysis secures Wayne State University
08/18/08
The IT security team at Wayne State University in Detroit wanted to get better visibility into the traffic crossing the urban
institution's main and satellite locations. With some 33,000 students and 10,000 faculty, staff and employees using the network
which includes 10,000 internal and 50,000 external hosts, the team turned to network behavior analysis (NBA) software from
Q1 Labs.
The dos and don'ts of IT job seeking
08/14/08
Rona Borre, president and CEO of Instant Technology, an IT recruiting and staff augmentation firm, shares her take on how
IT job seekers can use social networking sites to help and potentially hurt their chances at landing a job.
Mainframe here to stay, survey says
08/13/08
BMC surveyed 1,100 mainframe users to learn more about the platform's viability for today's workloads and IT's plans to keep
the systems running.
ASG updates its MetaCMDB software
08/13/08
IT industry watchers embrace the premise of a configuration management database as the necessary foundation to a savvy service
management strategy, but the practice of establishing an effective CMDB has yet to be standardized.
VMware bug bombs virtual servers
08/12/08
VMware customers find their systems won't power up Tuesday as a bug triggers a license management issue within the servers.
What is considered good application performance?
08/11/08
Like beauty is in the eye of the beholder, optimal application performance is in the experience of the end user. It's a subjective
matter that can bewilder network managers trying to ensure every app performs as its end users expect. And while the process
of determining what optimal application performance is can be ambiguous, it is crystal clear when the goal has not been met
and end users are complaining about slow service and non-responsive applications.
How to troubleshoot sluggish apps
08/08/08
There's more at stake than lost productivity when application response times slow to a standstill. Company revenue also takes
a hit.
Poor application performance translates to lost revenue, research shows
08/06/08
Poor application performance causes more than headaches for end users trying to access resources and network managers hoping
to keep workers productive. It impacts a business bottom line and equals lost revenue to many organizations, a recent Aberdeen
Research study shows.
Analyze Cisco's NetFlow for free
08/04/08
Network traffic data holds a wealth of information about application response time, network usage and bandwidth consumption.
Getting at that data in an efficient and inexpensive manner would help network managers better understand and control their
networks.
BMC delivers solid earnings - again
07/30/08
Management software maker BMC kicked off fiscal 2009 with significant revenue increases that have industry watchers confident
the company will weather any economic challenges U.S. vendors could face this year.
Blue Cross Blue Shield spots symptoms before network, voice apps get sick
07/28/08
The enterprise network systems department at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA) can't spend the majority of
its time troubleshooting network, application and VoIP performance issues.
IT worker confidence hits all-time low
07/23/08
The IT employee confidence Index reached in the second quarter 2008 its lowest level since measurement began in 2005 to gauge
the confidence of U.S. IT workers.
Managing an effective IT workforce
07/23/08
IT managers responsible for staffing their departments can no longer rely only on specific certifications and specialized
experience when looking to create an IT team that can address business demands and anticipate future needs.
IT project management yields savings for energy company
07/22/08
Portfolio and project management software tends to work independently from IT service management software. HP worked to change
this by integrating its PPM tools into other products, which the vendor says will help IT better understand how its resources
allocate their time.
ITIL-based service management from the mainframe
07/21/08
Large enterprise companies that need guaranteed high performance and scalability for their service management applications
might want to consider StreamFoundry's software suite that addresses several tenets laid out in ITIL while running on an IBM
mainframe.
Biggest security threats are from inside: survey
07/17/08
The CA 2008 Security and Privacy Survey polled CIOs, CSOs, CTOs and other senior executives responsible for IT security at
500 U.S. firms and organizations and learned that internal threats cause more concern than viruses and worms.
Tips for finding IT work online
07/16/08
IT professionals looking for permanent positions in high-tech seem to be facing more challenges than in the past, and numerous
online career sites promise to expedite the process with social networking and other features designed to bring the best listing
directly to job-seekers' desktops.
Looking for IT work in all the right places
07/15/08
IT professionals looking for work should be tapping social networking sites, using interactive online career tools and joining
community-driven organizations.
New IT job: CMDB manager
07/14/08
Enterprise IT departments looking to successfully deploy and maintain a configuration management database should also consider
redefining one staffer's responsibilities and role into CMDB manager, according to a recent report from Forrester Research.
NetIQ automates security processes
07/09/08
NetIQ this week announced capabilities the security and systems management vendor says will apply IT process automation technology
to security and compliance policies.
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