News Briefs: September 15, 2008

By Systems Management News Team

September 15, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 2)
AIIM Releases E-Mail Management Calculator
The Association for Information and Image Management has made available a calculator that helps organizations identify and analyze their e-mail management approach and its effect on costs. The Email Management ROI Calculator can display the costs, total cost of ownership and effective return on investment of e-mail management. The first of three tabs within the calculator asks for information that can be used to analyze current e-mail costs. The second quantifies the costs of implementing an e-mail management product, including procurement costs and costs to operate the product over a three-year period. The third identifies the benefits of the e-mail management product relative to the existing costs from the first tab.

Compuware Eases Developer Shuffle
Compuware has added a Web interface, Abend-AID 11, to its application fault management product to help IT organizations restaff their mainframe operations as veterans retire. According to Compuware executives, the new version augments the “green screen” interface with more modern and agile technologies to familiarize new workers with their systems. In addition to providing the Web interface, Abend-AID 11 improves root-cause analysis for COBOL programs and interoperability with IBM’s DB2 data server line, thereby increasing the speed at which users can diagnose issues, according to Compuware.

IBM to Create Data Backup Sites
IBM announced plans to invest US$300 million for the construction of 13 Business Resilience service delivery centers for data backup at IBM sites in 10 countries, including China, India, Italy and the United States. The centers will allow customers to deploy various backup services against power outages and other problems. Each center will host rack-mounted storage appliances that can store multiple terabytes of data for IBM customers. The appliances have integrated technology from Arsenal Digital Solutions, which IBM acquired earlier this year.

KACE Links Up With iPhone
Systems management company KACE created an appliance-based systems management product for the Apple iPhone that lets IT administrators provision and control policies for the phone as they would for any other managed device, the company said. The KBOX suite offers systems management capabilities across Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems. KACE executives said this is an important feature because many IT departments are choosing Mac OS X over Windows Vista. KBOX can assign iPhone profiles through user groups by function, geography or other characteristics, and distribute profiles via e-mail. A beta of KBOX was expected to be available this month.

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