Posted April 12th, 2013 by CJ Arlotta IT management platform company ManageEngine (a division of Zoho) is extending support for patch management to Apple Mac systems in the latest release of the company's remote monitoring and management platform Desktop Central. The solution recognizes the growth of the Mac platform in business settings and the greater need that managed services providers (MSPs) have for managing them. Here's the story. ManageEngine Product Management Director Mathivanan Venkatachalam said in a prepared statement tha…
Cross-functional skills key to running data centers Summary: Data center managers are now looking for IT staff who possess different skills such as Linux, security and app development, as the landscape evolves with the introduction of virtualization. By Ellyne Phneah | April 2, 2013 -- 06:37 GMT (14:37 SGT) Companies are increasingly looking for employees with a cross-functional skillset to manage their data centers, given that the dynamics are changing and IT becomes embedded in business-related activities. That said, IT p…
Research: 96% say IaaS meets expectations Summary: TechRepublic's infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) survey reveals what companies say about current and future plans for the cloud, top vendors, and the benefits of a public versus private or hybrid cloud solution. By Teena Hammond for Between the Lines | April 1, 2013 -- 21:31 GMT (05:31 SGT) The word “cloud” is being used with ever-growing frequency, but exactly who is using it and are the results satisfactory? To find out the current IT mindset on cloud/Infrastructur…
10 benefits of virtualization in the data center By Jack Wallen April 10, 2013, 10:42 AM PDT Takeaway: Data center virtualization can reduce your costs on facilities, power, cooling, and hardware, simplify administration and maintenance, and give you a greener IT profile. If you’re thinking about migrating to a hosted data center or looking for ways to improve your on-premise data center, I have one word for you: virtualization. Offering profound changes to the way data centers perform, virtualization makes sense on multiple leve…
Senin, 08 April 2013 16:43  Menurut Bhavin Parikh seorang praktisi pemasaran digital dari India, siapa saja yang terjun dalam dunia marketing konten dan Search Engine Optimization (SEO) harus sadar bahwa kondisi telah banyak berubah dalam beberapa tahun terakhir ini. Pergeseran itu berasal dari penulisan konten yang dioptimalkan untuk mesin pencari (bukan manusia/ pengguna Internet), pembelian tautan dari situs lain, dan penggunaan trik-trik curang yang disebut "black SEO". Tetapi sekarang ini, trennya telah bergeser ke: Penulisan k…
Gartner Reports: Enterprises Develop Digital Strategies, Plan to Increase IT Spending By David Roe (@druadh20) Apr 10, 2013 It's been a long time coming, but all the recent spending figures and predictions have been pointing to this. According to a recent survey by Gartner, nearly 80% of enterprises indicated an upcoming increase in IT, while more than half have a digital strategy in place to direct enterprise spending. IT Spending, Optimism If you've been following these kinds of reports since the beginning of the year, you would…
Android Will Be on More Devices Than All Major Operating Systems Combined By David Nagel 04/09/13 By the end of this year, Android will be in more devices than the next four competitors combined (Windows, iOS, Mac OS, and BlackBerry). Before the end of this decade, Android will be in nearly as many devices as all other operating systems combined. According to market research firm Gartner , in 2012, Android pulled ahead of Windows as the world's dominant operating system (counting PCs, tablets, and phones) by about 150 million d…
IT Project Management Manage Large IT Projects Efficiently A stand alone Project management tool to deploy an IT task is like having an override switch to bypass what is working now. End of the day the purpose of Project management is to make large projects streamlined and to make your tasks easier to handle. Project Management module in ServiceDesk Plus is a perfectly integrated solution which combines IT Help Desk with Project Management. With Project Management integrated with Service Desk Plus, managing projects is simpler…
Enterprise software: Win over the staff and you'll win over the business By Nick Heath | March 4, 2013, 3:14 AM PST Whereas IT managers may once have been the target market for enterprise software, today firms are better off designing apps to appeal directly to staff, the London Web Summit heard today. This approach relies on the so-called "Dropbox effect", where staff start using apps they have discovered themselves rather than been handed down to them by corporate IT. The software then permeates throughout the business via word…
VigorFly 210 is an IPv6 ready Wi-Fi router for residential users and remote offices / teleworkers. It offers the utmost connection flexibility for users to choose either fixed line or 3G/4G (LTE or WiMAX) via the USB port as the primary WAN connection and another as the backup. That lets users get the connection types based on the best availability and lowest cost in their local area. Moreover, VigorFly 210 works with IPv6 environment which significantly reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) when the IP infrastructure moves to the new …
How P&G Presents Data to Decision-Makers Tom Davenport | April 04, 2013 Those of us who believe that managers make better decisions when key data are presented visually tend to get very excited about all the innovation going on in the graphical display of information. (For a sampling of some new and cool tools, see the popular Hans Rosling TED talk .) However, if you work in a large organization and want it to make better use of data visualization, I'd argue that commonality is more important than creativity. If you can esta…
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