It may be IT's 'most boring discipline,' but better systems management is vital to the lower costs and greater simplicity that companies need.
Microsoft wants to make software performance simpler for IT departments to manage, and it plans updates to two key systems-management products next year and in 2007 that include new technology for monitoring the health of applications. But much of the plan depends on additional software not yet on the market.
Systems-management software historically has been complex and taken too long to install, Kirill Tatarinov, a corporate VP in Microsoft's Windows and enterprise management division, said in an interview at the Microsoft Management Summit 2005 conference in Las Vegas Tuesday. In a keynote address at the conference, Tatarinov said, "Some of you may have heard systems management called one of the most boring disciplines in enterprise IT." But better systems-management software can help overcome a "crisis of complexity and cost" in IT departments.
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