Google of IT management?
Paglo started the public beta of its new hosted IT management offering that's designed to help IT professionals do their jobs more efficiently by employing search technologies to cross organisational boundaries and solve common IT problems, says IT Jungle.
With a simple Web-based GUI, a blend of commercial open source and SaaS business models, and a successful private beta, Paglo just might live up to its billing as the Google of IT management.
The premise of Paglo is quiet simple, according to Brian de Haaff, CEO of the company. Namely, it aims to shatter the traditional moulds for systems management applications, and be the first tool that IT professionals go to when something breaks.
Innovation aids IT management
According to Telappliant, technology companies should focus on innovative strategies that will help them to deliver effectively managed IT services, a new study says.
Research conducted by Unisys shows that one quarter of firms in this sector focus on new practices that enable IT resources to be appropriately allocated.
A survey published by software consultancy Ovum earlier this week suggests that the managed IT and communication services sector will record an annual growth rate of 18%, taking global revenues to £33 billion by 2012.
Universities use open source
GroundWork Open Source has signed 18 leading Universities worldwide as customers, reports Business Wire.
Schools from the University of Wyoming to the University of Adelaide in Australia have deployed GroundWork Monitor, lowering IT costs, while getting the same world-class features and capacity of proprietary alternatives.
In a recent Gartner report, 'Open Source in Higher Education', analyst Jan-Martin Lowendahl stated, "OSS is already a part of most higher education institutions and if it's not, chances are high that it is part of an institution that stakeholders (such as researchers and students) collaborate with."
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