Governance with Information
I take a broad view of "governance"; but fundamental to governance, to me, is information. A recent IBI Customer Day prompted some thoughts on this.
GRC is not enough
The problem with GRC (governance, risk and compliance) is that it's not a three-way issue. At minimum, there are four or five different forms of governance, two types of compliance and seven...
Clavis: extending data quality
In the last few years there has been a trend amongst data quality vendors to move towards what is typically known as pre-emptive data quality. That is, to have proactive capabilities that enforces...
Get storage off expensive tier 1 ASAP, says Tarmin as it launches Gridbank 1.5
Tarmin Technologies has announced version 1.5 of its GridBank object-based storage archiving solution—with 64-bit Linux and Windows Server 2008 editions and new features especially focused...
Managing Capability and Maturity: Part 2
In part one of this article,we talked about informal maturity management and why it might be a good thing. Now we want to talk about the real thing (CMMI; Capability Maturity Management Integrated,...
Managing capability and maturity : 1
We've been writing a few things recently around process maturity—and not just for ITA/ITD. For instance, about ASG's Senior Director of Solutions Management, Mike Oitzman's view that a...
You don’t want a CMDB, you want a CMS
The CMDB—Configuration Management Database—is fast becoming fashionable these days. The idea seems to be that if your IT environment is in chaos—if nobody is sure of exactly what...
Netcordia’s NetMRI 3.0 helps network managers do more with less in tough times
Netcordia has upped the stakes in the Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM) market with its introduction of NetMRI 3.0, which adds detailed impact analysis, available immediately....
Application Integrity: the Coverity approach.
It seems to us that one of the big problems with security is its siloisation; it's often thought of as something special, something you get the specialists to do after the fact. The problem is, of...
ManageSoft’s ECM 8 digs deeper into SAM to unearth savings
Companies never had a more pressing need to get their software licensing into compliance, and not only to avoid being liable for unwanted penalties. The larger the enterprise the greater the...