General Motors Corp.'s (GM) IT group has undergone a thorough transformation in the last eight years, one that has seen the company knock more than a billion dollars off its annual IT budget of US$4 billion.
In an effort to give IT managers a more complete view of their enterprise networks, Hewlett-Packard Co. earlier this month combined its operations and performance management tools, and added new automated functions into the mix.
Momentum continues to build for Jumbo Frames, as a standards body and vendors begin to endorse this nonstandard technique for transferring large amounts of data over gigabit Ethernet.