With IT management becoming increasing more complex, administrators need all the help they can get. A growing number of IT tools are being delivered via Software as a Service (SaaS), which promises fast deployment and lets customers pay only for the services they use. Here are 8 SaaS IT management tools that automate IT services, help troubleshoot problems, and provide visibility into the status of network devices and applications.
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8 Cloud-based IT Management Tools
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BYOD: Why You Will Lose
Restrictive BYOD policies will fail because humans have a compulsive attachment to mobile devices.
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HP’s Turnaround: It’s Time To Believe
Not only does CEO Meg Whitman seem to have a solid strategy, but there’s plenty of evidence it’s starting to work. Maybe it’s time for skeptics like me to admit we’re wrong.
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802.11ac: 10Gig Uplinks Are Overkill
There’s talk that 802.11ac requires 10Gig uplinks to support maximum throughput. But you may not even need 2Gig uplinks. Here’s why.
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Thumb Drive Security: Snowden 1, NSA 0
Pity the poor USB thumb drive.
The humble storage device is again under fire after reports surfaced that National Security Agency (NSA) whistle-blower Edward Snowden, 29, used a removable USB storage device to exfiltrate top-secret information from the agency, reported the Los Angeles Times .
NSA investigators now “know how many documents he downloaded and what server he took them from,” a government official — speaking on condition of anonymity — told the paper.
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VMware Tackles Server Log Data Pain
VMware is applying big data analytics to server log files to get information useful in real-time operations, which is usually mined after the fact for historical purposes.
VCenter Log Insight is a stand-alone product being added to VMware’s lineup. With a $ 200 license fee per monitored operating system , it’s meant to work hand-in-glove with a preexisting VMware data center product, vCenter Operations. VCenter Operations is used to capture and help manage configuration settings, performance management and capacity management.
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NSA Prism: Inside The Modern Surveillance State
Dystopia used to seem sexier. In George Orwell’s 1984 , Big Brother used non-stop wars and ever-present surveillance to keep the population in check. A stray glance or thoughtcrime might send you to the slammer. Who wouldn’t rebel against that?
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iRobot, Cisco Create Telepresence Robot
In an episode of “The Big Bang Theory,” a character, terrified that an accident might damage his valuable brain, sequesters himself in a room and sends out a “”Mobile Virtual Presence Device” to face his daily tasks and dangers. A remote-controlled robot with a video-chat broadcasting monitor for a head, the device is played for laughs in the TV show — but in the enterprise, Cisco thinks the technology could boost productivity, especially in remote management situations.
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WAN Optimization Part 3: Overcoming Bandwidth Limitations
Bandwidth is one of the key factors that can impact network performance. Learn how WAN optimization uses deduplication to address this issue and how to evaluate different deduplication approaches.
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Will IT Departments Disappear By 2020?
IT as we know it could disappear by the end of the decade, killed off by the relentless consumerization of technology.
If it does disappear, that will be a problem, because it’s the chief information officer who is best placed to use technology to change business and break down internal organizational barriers.
These and other thought-provoking ideas about the future of IT came from Forrester Research at its CIO Forum held in London this week.
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