Denise Dubie

CA has added software to its service oriented architecture (SOA) management arsenal that company officials say will let IT operations staff track the performance of loosely coupled SOA applications across production networks.

While Whirlpool focuses on the business of making kitchen and laundry appliances, lead network engineer Gregory Fisbeck keeps his eye on thousands of IP addresses.

CA this week is set to announce upgrades across its workload automation suite that will help customers automate batch and other jobs across an enterprise network in an on-demand manner.

HP is taking a whole new approach to how you build data centres says Ann Livermore, executive vice-president of the Technology Solutions Group at HP. In this exclusive interview Livermore outlines how software can automate IT to create data centres that are a lot easier to manage.

Despite improved customer-satisfaction ratings at several e-commerce companies, online travel sites still suffer from security , performance and customer perception woes that cause potential travelers to put down their mouse and pick up the phone to book trips.

IT professionals touting project management, security and architecture talents might find themselves in demand as hiring managers look to round out their staffs

NetQoS recently made available an enhanced version of its suite of network traffic analysis, systems monitoring and reporting products. The vendor says the upgrades will help enterprise network managers more easily correlate events across distributed networks.

Cisco is very well known among network managers and has delivered solid products over the years. Jeff Duke says that is part of the reason he ultimately wound up with Cisco shelfware in his network in Indianapolis.