Systems Management software assists in managing an organization’s infrastructure. Functions include software distribution and upgrading, user profile management, version control, backup and recovery, job scheduling, virus protection, and more.
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IBM is changing the terms of its ubiquitous Passport Advantage agreement to remove entitled discounts on over 5,000 on-premises software products, resulting in an immediate price increase for IBM Software & Support (S&S) across its vast customer landscape.
VMware has issued the highest Common Vulnerability Scoring System 3 (CVSSv3) rating, 10.0, on a vulnerability (CVE-2020-3952) found on its VMware vCenter Server version 6.7 software. VMware now has a patch to address this vulnerability, and administrators are urged to install the patch as soon as possible.
A Citrix vulnerability first discovered on December 17, 2019 is being continually exploited by ransomware attackers despite patching attempts by Citrix.
Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization.
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.
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IBM Power Systems for your hybrid multicloud strategy. Get the answers to six of the most common questions posed by IBM Power Systems clients—from AI and disaster recovery to what Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Cloud Paks means for AIX and IBM i clients.
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System Center helps customers gain an unified datacenter management experience with out-of-the-box monitoring, provisioning, configuration, automation, protection and self-service capabilities. You can now extend System Center capabilities with Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) to deliver a cloud-inspired, platform-agnostic solution to help you manage both traditional infrastructure and modern applications with ease.
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Deliver higher service quality and achieve greater IT efficiency with Kaseya VSA, offering remote monitoring and management for all IT functions integrated in a single console.
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Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a – single pane of glass – that allows you to manage on-premises and cloud-based IT using the same familiar interface you know and use on-premises every day.
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Micro Focus Operations Bridge is a containerized IT Operations suite which automatically reduces operations data noise, proactively detects problems, rapidly executes remediation and improves collaboration across tool silos leading to 70x faster root cause, 50% less MTTR and reduction overall cost of IT Operations.
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Operations Management Suite (also known as OMS) is a collection of cloud-based services for managing your on-premises and cloud environments from one single place. Rather than deploying and managing on-premises resources, OMS components are entirely hosted in Azure.
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Proactively monitor physical servers, virtual machines, network devices, applications, and services across multiple platforms running on-premise, remotely, or in the Cloud. Uptime Infrastructure Monitor provides a unified view of IT environment health and a GUI that is easily customizable, with a drag and drop dashboard design. Create private IT dashboards, team dashboards (server team, application team, capacity team, etc.), and a NOC for the entire datacenter in minutes.
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Nagios XI is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. Nagios XI monitors your entire IT infrastructure to ensure systems, applications, services, and business processes are functioning properly. In the event of a failure, Nagios can alert staff of the issue to begin remediation before outages affect business processes, end-users, or customers.
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Lansweeper comes with a variety of scanning methods to accommodate any network setup. Schedule a full network scan by IP range and set critical servers to be scanned every hour or use active scanning and integrate active directory to continuously keep your inventory up to date. Configure scanning just the way you want it to be. While one agent based scanning method is available, using it is completely optional. All other Lansweeper scanning methods do not require agents on your machines.
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Managing today’s complex hybrid IT infrastructure is hard. The combination of public and private cloud—mixed with hosted services and legacy on-premises infrastructure—creates a complex landscape for IT to run and operate.
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A remote monitoring and management solution that keeps you a step ahead of IT issues.
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KACE fast-to-implement, easy-to-use systems management and deployment appliances provision, manage, secure, and service your growing organization’s network-connected devices, including Windows PCs, Macs, Chromebooks, tablets, Linux, UNIX, and Windows Servers, printers, storage and the internet of things (IoT), while their integrated appliance architecture delivers rapid return on investment.
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AIOps from Broadcom combines full stack observability and advanced analytics with automation, helping solve complex IT problems before they impact customer experience. AIOps correlates data across users, applications, infrastructure and network services and applies machine learning, advanced analytics, and automation to deliver a new level of visibility and actionable insights. Built on an open, scalable data lake, which leverages open technologies such as Kibana and Apache Spark combined with scalable automation capabilities, AIOps delivers the most comprehensive cross-domain contextual intelligence seamlessly spanning cloud to mainframe.
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Moogsoft AIOps is a purpose-built software platform optimized to deliver continuous service assurance through its role as a real-time operational System of Engagement for your entire organization. It adds the critical layer of intelligence and integration between performance monitoring and IT Service Management (ITSM) systems to reduce Operational actions by up to 99% of events.
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IPcenter is the only platform that guarantees business and services outcomes to drive your productivity to new heights.
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With a combination of real-time monitoring and machine-learning driven analytics, Broadcom’s DX NetOps simplifies complexity through high scale, unified network monitoring enabling full-stack analytics for assuring traditional, and software-defined and cloud architectures. The DX NetOps network monitoring software converts inventory, topology, device metrics, faults, flow and packet analysis into actionable intelligence for network operations teams.
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Enjoy the core benefits of Opsview Monitor, like Dashboards, Notifications, and Integrations. With that you get out of the box SLA and trend reporting, scalability for large systems, up to 24/7 support, and your own dedicated customer success manager.
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Unprecedented Full-Stack Monitoring Correlated Application, Infrastructure & Cloud Resource Insights in a Single Product
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Goverlan Reach Systems Management is a remote access software created and distributed by Goverlan, Inc. Goverlan is an on-premises client management software designed for medium to large enterprises for remote control, active directory management, global configuration change management, and reporting within a Windows IT Infrastructure
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TrueSight Operations Management is a turnkey solution that provides a comprehensive view of how key services are performing, so IT knows immediately if customer experiences may be impacted. TrueSight Operations Management helps IT teams merge operational silos and streamline efforts across technology domains, shifting focus from managing individual service components to delivering exceptional customer experience.
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SolarWinds Systems Management Bundle delivers visibility across your systems environment—from applications to servers, virtualized infrastructure, and storage systems — to help you diagnose and troubleshoot performance problems faster. Systems Management Bundle combines the goodness of four products from SolarWinds — all integrated to deliver single-pane-of-glass visibility on the SolarWinds Orion Platform.
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OpManager Plus is an integrated network performance management solution that eliminates the need for multiple monitoring tools and provides greater visibility across your entire network. OpManager Plus is packed with advanced network management capabilities for monitoring networks, servers, IP addresses, and switch ports; managing bandwidth and network configurations; and analyzing firewall logs before archiving them. Rid your network of blind spots by deploying this powerful, integrated solution with a unified approach to network management.
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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is designed to monitor your applications and their supporting infrastructure, whether running on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Don’t let slow applications and downtime impact your end users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack.
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IBM is changing the terms of its ubiquitous Passport Advantage agreement to remove entitled discounts on over 5,000 on-premises software products, resulting in an immediate price increase for IBM Software & Support (S&S) across its vast customer landscape.
VMware has issued the highest Common Vulnerability Scoring System 3 (CVSSv3) rating, 10.0, on a vulnerability (CVE-2020-3952) found on its VMware vCenter Server version 6.7 software. VMware now has a patch to address this vulnerability, and administrators are urged to install the patch as soon as possible.
A Citrix vulnerability first discovered on December 17, 2019 is being continually exploited by ransomware attackers despite patching attempts by Citrix.
Project Zero is changing its vulnerability disclosure policy to give software developers more time to patch vulnerabilities. The policy is now shifted to a stringent 90-day policy.
Cybersecurity firm Bishop Fox identified eight vulnerabilities in ConnectWise’s remote control and remote access software.
Announced on December 31, 2019, BeyondTrust named Tenable as the successor to its Vulnerability Management suite.
On January 15, 2020, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued an open call to vendors to fulfill a contract to help improve their technology and inventory management.
ServiceNow version New York has entered General Availability. These features should delight high-maturity IT departments but are mostly worthless for low-maturity groups.
SolarWinds has announced updates to its IT operations management suite of products. These updates will improve users’ ability to monitor, manage, and secure hybrid operations.
Quest Software has announced its newest updates, KACE SDA 7.0 and KACE SMA 9.1, which enhance their features, apply Linux scripted installs, and automate systems management.
Puppet has rolled out Remediate. This release aligns with the ongoing consolidation between IT Operations and IT Security.
Ayehu is working to bridge the gap between IT Operations and Security Operations. We expect to see more vendor product offerings follow suit.
Rundeck markets itself as an enabler of self-service IT operations. This marketing strategy aligns with the transition of IT operations from order-takers to engineers. But organizations must change their way of working to make self-service successful.
ServiceNow and Microsoft are furthering their partnership by hosting the Now platform in the Azure-trusted cloud. These features and integrations are powerful, but comes at the price of vendor lock-in.
ConnectWise, a software provider for IT automation and management tools, has released three enhancements to streamline product management for its MSP clients.
At the RSA Conference earlier this month, Spirion announced it had won the Gold Cybersecurity Excellence Product Award in the Data Classification category.
Microsoft is releasing free online courses for artificial intelligence. This is its attempt at remaining relevant in the AI space, so you might as well take advantage.
VMware is delving deeper into the IT security segment with its recent announcement at RSA 2019, unveiling its Service-defined Firewall product. VMware will be competing with security giants Palo Alto Networks and Cisco, among others, to introduce the new offering that focuses on the internal network by validating good application behavior.