Introduction

Automation takes on crucial role in IT

Hot Trends

6 tips for jump-starting your automation project

Upstart vendors lead the charge in automating complex data-center processes

IT automation: right and wrong

10 automation companies to watch

Complex event processing: still on the launch pad

Management vendors team on configuration spec

Why tomorrow is too late to think about business continuity

How to hit pay dirt when overhauling IT processes

Virtualization Takes Hold

Virtualization security needed - now!

10 virtualization companies to watch

Management tool vendors gear up for virtualization

The User View

Insurer aims for automation

ITIL shapes help-desk overhaul at JPMorgan Chase.

Toyota unit gets ITIL right second time around

Net mgmt. and security melding

IT Roadmap: University vindicates its all-or-nothing VoIP decision

ADP back-burners virtualization, cranks up heat on automated change management

Tools of the Trade

Tools automate the business process

Oracle gains more analytics with Sigma buy

Storage management software gets predictive

Microsoft licenses traffic technology it developed

13 free tools ease IT management

SOMA: Service-oriented management architecture

10 IT management software companies to watch

Making business sense of Web-traffic data

Q&A: IBM sticks to autonomic computing agenda

IDG Whitepapers: Executive Guide - IT Automation Index