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Enterprise Management Associates is back again after a year of absence, this time on a monthly basis. We've really missed your dialog and comments, and hopefully we've been missed as well. As before, this column will focus on network management trends as they fit into the bigger IT management landscape - focusing from time to time on application performance, or SLM versus BSM, or new approaches to asset management, or trends like CMDB adoption as they may affect the NOC.

Symantec last week announced plans to sell its application performance management (APM) business. The business is based on technology Veritas (now owned by Symantec) acquired through its 2003 purchase of Precise Software Solutions.

Everyone loves an underdog story, but this isn't one. BMC, CA, HP and IBM came to power in the management software market in the 1990s with tools to manage network devices and software designed to keep mainframe systems humming along. Being among the few choices at the time, the vendors dominated the market and customers endured product implementations that could run up to 18 months and spent well into the millions of dollars to get management software in place. But in too many cases, the technology didn't deliver.

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An IT tool synonymous with network management is getting its first major overhaul in four years. More than 90 percent of the code in Network Node Manager i 8.0 is new and available free to customers with valid support licenses, according to HP.

BMC has closed a deal to acquire Emprisa Networks, equipping the management software maker with network device configuration technology that it will use to augment its IT process automation and business service management product suites.

CA this week laid out its plans to further unify and simplify its extensive product portfolio, homing in on governance, management and security technologies that would help customers optimize their businesses.

Enterprise network managers often bemoan the fact that while the tools they use to monitor network devices collect volumes of information, it can be difficult to make sense of it and time-consuming to compile and present the data clearly to upper management.

Enterasys announced that Michael Fabiaschi will become the company's new CEO, immediately replacing Mark Asslet, who is leaving the company "to pursue other interests."

Kim Jahnz doesn't like to brag, but she says that over the years she has mastered managing network and systems performance and availability at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee. However, Jahnz knows she faces a bigger challenge in 2006.

CA has agreed to buy application management software vendor Wily Technology for US$375 million in cash, the companies announced Thursday.