Cloud is going to change customer expectations. New requirements are emerging, service levels are becoming more stringent and some of the time-tested strategies for managing costs and ensuring adequate service levels are being invalidated. The new whitepaper form Uplogix shows how the same old network and network management strategies and tools won't just rain on [...]
Local Management enables a range of savings that traditional centralized tools can’t deliverWhen the network and dependent systems are down, orders can’t be placed, employees are less productive, and costly resources have to be diverted to fix problems. Traditional centralized network and system management tools—although good at collecting and reporting system data—still do not proactively [...]
Don't let this be your configuration! Hackers broke into a server for the State of Utah Health Department recently in what has been described as a "configuration error" or an "installed password that wasn't as secure as needed." The breach resulted in over 182,000 Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program members having their personal information [...]
Network Instruments recently issued their annual State of the Network report predicting a number of network challenges due to increasing use of video and Cloud technologies. With no shortage of work for IT at most companies, the next year should be busy. The highlights from the study include the following challenges for IT staffs: Moving [...]
Over the next few months we'll be talking more about the impact Local Management can have on cloud computing network infrastructure, what does Cloud mean for your job? Looking more at the macro level of the impact of Cloud on IT jobs, two recent studies show the answer is mixed. On a global basis, Microsoft [...]
The non-profit IT trade association, CompTIA, recently released a study reporting that eight in ten organizations say their business operations are impacted by gaps in the skill sets of their IT staffs. The fast-pace of technology change and a lack of training resources are listed as the biggest factors contributing to the skills gap. The [...]
What qualifies a site as "remote" to you? Researchers at DARPA (the US military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) recently announced that they want to create a massive system of unmanned sensors and systems to monitor and track the even the most remote regions of the Arctic. With retreating ice expected over the coming decades, [...]
At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week wireless carrier executives discussed the challenges of meeting an exploding demand on their networks as the number of users and their appetite for bandwidth continue to grow. The service providers' concern is that while they are seeing doubling in wireless data needs, they are not expecting [...]
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." This well-known line most likely did not refer to the networks that today's IT shops have to deal with, but it's not far off when it comes to network management. As everyone struggles to find the right combination of spending, manpower and [...]
A recent congressional hearing focused on getting rid of duplicate IT systems - a significant potential source of savings considering the 2011 overall federal spending on IT was over $79 billion. The two organizations under the microscope were the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, with 2013 IT budget requests of $37 billion [...]
