MONITORING ASCERTAINS IT PERFORMANCE, REFOCUSING RESOURCES ON BUSINESS GOALS

The Value of Monitoring Is Knowledge, Reducing Complexity For Better Manageability Across the IT Life Cycle

ORGANIZATIONS DRIVE GLOBAL SOURCING THROUGH COLLABORATION

Too many customers feel under siege because of the state of virus and spam proliferation, government regulation, end-user demands, and unexplained outages. Information Technology (IT) organizations have an unending list of tasks that involve upgrades, patches, false and real alarms, issue resolution, and keeping critical systems running.

Surveys by the leading industry analysts along with the product plans of top platform vendors indicate that business of all sizes have strong motivations to advance IT capabilities, but avoid the complexity and headaches of managing systems, networks, and applications. In addition, increasing risks and vulnerabilities make the routine tasks of IT ever harder to manage and ever more costly.

This month as we continue to discuss network management and monitoring, I encourage you to think about how you can better manage the monitoring and maintenance of your network to help make your business more efficient. We've seen customers experience improved uptime and more importantly reduce network maintenance costs of 20-30%.

Also, this month we've updated our website, www.definition6.com, please visit it and let us know what you think.  To learn how we can manage your network, go to the network offer http://www.definition6.com/giveaway/giveaway.asp  to see how we can help you reduce costs. Enjoy the best of webs.

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Communication

To build or to buy IT applications?
The oldest question in IT keeps getting more complicated as new options emerge. Here's how MCI, Motorola, Visa, and others are tackling the problem
by Polly S. Traylor, InfoWorld

Survivor's Guide to 2006
Enterprise Apps and App Infrastructure Business processes will continue to drive application initiatives, while businesses themselves will rely on enterprise architectures to integrate their apps with processes.
by Lori MacVittie, Network Computing

Collaboration

Competing On Analytics
You're no match for contenders if your business data is tied up in knots
By Thomas Davenport, Optimize

The Dawn of a New ERA
What's Next in Business Intelligence?
by Don Allen Price, DMReview

Commerce

Keeping Up with the Phishers
Try These Strategies
by David F. Carr, Baseline Magazine

Portals Provide a Fast Track to SOA
Large and midsize businesses continue significant use of portal products to build and deploy a variety of customer, citizen, partner and employee-facing enterprise portals.
By Gene Phifer, Business Integration Journal