As companies man the barricades against a new wave of cyber attacks, governments, security consultancies and experts around the world are launching initiatives and opening up new fronts in the war against the hackers. VitAL editor Matt Bailey canvassed opinion from the IT security industry about what you can do to make sure you are ready for the challenge.
Software tools should be all about doing more with less. As we come out of a long, hard winter here in the UK, David Brown, internal sales team manager at TopDesk suggests it’s easier to book that longed for holiday in the sun if you can trust the Service Management tools and staff you leave behind; and you can rest easier if you know that shared functionality is saving the company money too.
With a no-frills approach to delivering an IT management portfolio with value and functionality at its heart, ManageEngine is getting to grips with today’s game changing technologies. VitAL speaks to the company’s european director, David Howell.
ManageEngine sets out its stall with what it calls a no-frills focus on delivering an enterprise-class IT management portfolio, with value and functionality at a fraction of the price of other suppliers. It serves more than 72,000 established and emerging enterprises – customers with IT infrastructures that it says are far more dynamic, flexible and elastic than ever before.
If business applications take on more of the characteristics of consumer devices like tablets and smartphones, then users will find it much easier to adopt new systems. Geoff Rees, sales director at Sunrise Software explains why the consumerisation of business applications is a necessary step on the path to change.
In this feature, Arvind Parthiban, marketing manager – ITSM at ManageEngine, discusses the various ways to successfully implement and deploy the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and how the rest of the IT organisation can also benefit from its advantages.
One of the ‘quality problems’ you might have as your business grows is the challenge of managing all your resources. As your IT assets expand, it is difficult to ascertain exactly what and where they all are. It is important to get more visibility on what applications and services are running on each asset, how they interact, and the business impact if they are down, responding poorly or slowly, or if they are jeopardised by security threats.
