In the market for SMB systems management software, which lets companies automate day-to-day tasks like provisioning, patch management and performance monitoring, VARs say their services attach rate is ...

Systems management startup Aduva is trying to reduce the cost of managing free software. As an open source operating system, Linux is available as a free download or through low-cost shrink-wrapped ...

A distributed system is a collection of independent computer systems that does not have shared memory, but still appears as a single system to its users. For instance, the network of workstations, ...

Systems management software covers core IT functions for many small businesses—especially those that don’t have an IT department. If you don’t have the bandwidth or resources to perform regular IT ...

WASHINGTON — IBM Corp. on Monday announced new system management software designed to reduce server down time by automatically predicting failures in IBM’s eServer xSeries servers, which are based on ...

Major airlines often are forced to cancel flights because of relatively minor computer-related glitches and outages, stranding customers and costing the airlines countless millions of dollars in ...

Inventory management is more than simply knowing what's left in the warehouse. Today these systems track the warehouse, a product's shelf life, and even your customers' experience. We test top players ...

To cope with applications that are greedy for IT resources and the rise in business being done online, some users are trying to make their server networks more flexible and self-healing. But analysts ...