The Operations Manager Is in

By Alan Zeichick

April 15, 2008 —  You’re holding the debut issue of BZ Media’s “Systems Management News,” the twice-monthly newspaper for IT system administration managers. Whether your domain is supervising network admins, overseeing DBAs, running the data center, ensuring application uptime, protecting the perimeter or keeping the helpdesk humming, SMN is for you.

IT professionals who manage systems administration are in a unique position within the enterprise. Unlike the sys admins that you supervise, your focus is much bigger than operational tasks like maintenance, upgrades, and moves-adds-and-changes. As a manager, you have to cope with today’s challenges while looking forward, making difficult decisions every day that affect policies, practices and priorities. SMN is here to help.

Many of those decisions affect far more than the particular staff and platforms that fall under your sphere of responsibility. Your decisions, and the suggestions provided to executive management, require an in-depth understanding of current systems and also of emerging technologies and solutions.

Executives, employees, partners and customers all depend on the smooth running of IT systems and infrastructure. They rely on systems managers to ensure that the wheels keep turning today, tomorrow and next year.

For the wheels to keep turning, managers have to know not only how the wheels work, and where they’re going, but also where the roadblocks are down the road. We’ll help you by letting you know about next-generation tools, platforms and partnerships. We’ll advise you when to blaze new trails with new technology and early-adopter best practices. We’ll warn when veering off the beaten path would lead to disaster.

That’s why “Systems Management News” is here. The job of Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein, and his intrepid crew of reporters, writers and artists, is to be out in front, scouting the paths for both danger and opportunity, and reporting back to you. We’re your eyes and your ears.

Ready for the wide-angle view of IT operations and systems administration management? Welcome to “Systems Management News.” We’re here for you.


Alan Zeichick
alan@bzmedia.com

Editorial Director, Systems Management News
Co-Founder, BZ Media LLC



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