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Welcome to SMUG, the Chicago Systems Management User Group. We are a community of individuals devoted to the exchange of information on Microsoft’s Systems Management Server and related Windows Management products and technologies. Find out more about us
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This is just a prototype example using Ajaxian techniques, JSRS (Javascript Remote Scripting), and Google Maps to show how one could display network monitoring updates in real-time.
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openadaptorâ„¢ is a Java/XML-based software platform which allows for rapid business system integration with little or no custom programming. openadaptorâ„¢ can be loosely classified as EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) software. It is highly exten
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The traditional approach to runtime governance is to code runtime best practices as business rules into the services themselves. However, this method significantly reduces the agility of the system, as each change to governance requires a system maintenan
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SML is based on work Microsoft began three and a half years ago on its System Definition Model (SDM), part of its Dynamic Systems Initiative aimed at simplifying complexity in users’ IT infrastructure. As Microsoft went through the process of revising a
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“A CMDB underpins many IT initiatives and, in the real world, is more about integrating management data to improve operations than it is about best practices.â€
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Business rules represent the core business logic of an organization – they guide, control, and manage the basic business processes. Business Rules are almost synonymous with ILOG. When talking about Business Rules you cannot afford to not talk about ILOG.(tags: ILOG Business-Rules)
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The Drive to Structured IT Management The rise of the configuration management database will help integrate and rationalize disparate discovery, configuration and analysis investments. Check your progress toward an evolved IT management strat
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A survey of 400 IT managers and developers published last month by Evans Data found that Web services are often unavailable for periods ranging from an hour to a day. Almost half of the respondents said that when their most reliable Web services go down,
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Notefish makes Internet research simple. Making a purchase? Planning a trip? Save information from the web into a single online Notefish page, then organize and share!
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So where’s the game change? IT management providers of all sizes need to look beyond traditional categories for product and brand position. Not only are frameworks dead, so too are application management, network management, systems management, database m
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ndicative’s IT service management product is an end-to-end, user- perspective approach that differs from conventional system management methods with its ease of implementation, relevant visibility and short time to value. Indicative 7.5, which was release
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Trendium, a leading service intelligence solutions provider, and Allot Communications, a leader in IP service optimization solutions based on deep packet inspection (DPI), have announced a joint solution to help telecommunications service providers proact
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Allot Communications is the leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization solutions based on deep packet inspection (DPI) technology. Broadband service providers and enterprises around the world rely on Allot’s DPI-based solutions for the granul
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THINKstrategies points to Magnum Technologies’ 3 unique capabilities to explain what sets its software apart from other BSM vendors. These capabilities include: 1. Business Service Discovery which graphically depicts the Business Service Chain linkages
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Altiris Inc. (Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, is positioned as a “leader” in The Forrester Wave: IT Asset Management, Q3 2006 report. Forrester writes, “Altiris is a fast-growing player in the IT asset management market,
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Dorado Software said its RME-JE Edition provides small-to-medium enterprises with comprehensive, automation, management and configuration management database (CMDB) functions necessary to ensure the delivery of business-critical services traversing a Juni
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The enterprise software vendor has integrated the Sentinel security and event management software from e-Security, which it acquired in April, with its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and identity management suite. Called Sentinel from Novell, the software s
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Chapter 4 – from the book Nagios: System and Network Monitoring by Wolfgang Barth — Reprinted by permission from No Starch Press and Open Source Press. Available at booksellers now. Full book details are at the bottom of the article.
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The CommandCenter NOC appliance line from Raritan is targeted to network and/or security administrators in mid-market shops or divisions of larger organizations. The appliances provide multiple network management and monitoring capabilities to administrat
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IT Managers at mid-sized companies may have the impression that implementing Service Management requires a huge budget, an army of consultants, years to fully deploy and months to train their staff. But in reality it doesn’t have to be that way. Raritan
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The CommandCenter NOC family of management appliances helps businesses address a wide range of IT problems before they occur. It keeps your IT infrastructure under constant scrutiny to guard against network outages, degradation, performance slowdowns, sec
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C-COR Incorporated (NASDAQ:CCBL)(www.c-cor.com) and Sigma Systems (www.sigma-systems.com) today announced that they have agreed to terms whereby C-COR will transition the product development and support for the C-COR Service Activation Manager (SAM) and S
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Business process visibility allows end users to gather business information to improve non-IT related issues, helps enable fast determination to see if business issues are truly IT-related, ensures that IT is aligned with the business and helps improve ov
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To keep pace with the changing requirements of network managers and compliance and security officers, AlterPoint Inc. is set to unveil a new version of its DeviceAuthority Suite for automated network change and configuration management of heterogeneous ne
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Smarts in the Here and Now “Real time” has become a rallying cry—and something of an IT imperative—in many organizations. We wanted to find out where readers are placing the most emphasis on “reducing information latency.” Perhaps not surprisingly, ab