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BOULDER, Colo., June 19, 2008 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), has released a new EMA Advisory Note, IT GRC – Real or Not?, that helps clarify recent buzz, mounting frustration and rampant confusion that threatens to undermine the growing need to manage IT risk at a strategic level. Based on findings from his recent research into real-world IT governance, risk management and compliance, EMA research director Scott Crawford describes how a new wave of contrarian naysayers are now challenging GRC itself, and IT GRC in particular.
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BOULDER, Colo., June 5, 2008 – New research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) shows that IT asset management (ITAM) continues to mature with steady adoption and growth rates, and that early adopters are increasingly turning to Next-Generation-Asset Management (NGAM) processes to better integrate IT asset and financial management into a single practice. For its new study titled “The Changing Face of Asset Management: Merging Asset, Service and Financial Management,” EMA surveyed nearly 300 respondents and conducted a number of in-depth focal interviews to explore NGAM in the enterprise. Lisa Erickson-Harris, research director at EMA, led the research project and also will host a free webinar on the findings on Thurs., June 5, at 2 p.m. Eastern.
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BOULDER, Colo., June 2, 2008 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host a number of free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of June 2008.
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BOULDER, Colo., May 28, 2008 – New research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) shows that IT governance, risk and compliance (IT GRC) management is increasingly linked to the overall governance of an organization. The study, led by Scott Crawford, EMA research director, looks at the challenges facing IT GRC, the factors that contribute to successful IT GRC deployments and the critical role IT Service Management best practices play in IT GRC success.
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BOULDER, Colo., May 22, 2008 – Recent research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) shows that the promise of the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) has led to a 24 percent increase in adoption rates during the past two years. As part of its continued focus on this IT market sector, EMA surveyed 91 IT professionals primarily at companies with at least $1 billion in revenue to explore adoption rate trends, challenges that hamper success and emerging best practices for CMDB implementations.
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BOULDER, Colo., May 15, 2008, Despite the drumbeat of gloomy outlooks for the U.S. economy, current research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) indicates that technology spending by organizations large and small will remain strong in 2008, with 77 percent of nearly 1,000 IT professionals surveyed planning to maintain or increase IT spending during the year. Overall, 55 percent said they planned to increase spending, 26 percent said they would maintain current spending levels and the remaining 23 percent indicated they are looking to trim budgets during 2008.
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BOULDER, Colo., April 30, 2008 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host a number of free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of May 2008.
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BOULDER, Colo., April 28, 2008, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management and consulting firm, will share its in-depth knowledge and expertise on IT Service Management (ITSM) at Interop Las Vegas. EMA president Rick Sturm is serving as the chairman of the Interop ITSM Track, with Hank Marquis, EMA director of ITSM consulting, and Chris Matney, consulting director of IT services at EMA, presenting real-world guidance and findings based on the firm’s extensive work in this area.
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BOULDER, Colo., April 17, 2008, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the release of its latest research report titled, “Virtualization and Management: Trends, Forecasts and Recommendations.” EMA and its research director Andi Mann continue to lead the IT industry in identifying trends, adoption patterns and pervasive marketing hype around one of 2008’s hottest technology stories.
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BOULDER, Colo., April 9, 2008 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host two additional free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of April 2008.
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BOULDER, Colo., April 4, 2008 – With IT virtualization one of the hottest topics in technology it’s not surprising that virtualization security will likely peg the “buzz meter” at the upcoming RSA 2008 conference. Scott Crawford, research director for the security and risk management practice at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), says virtualization security has quickly become one of the highest visibility concepts in IT, and that EMA will explore the new frontier of virtualization security in a new research study that will be initiated at RSA 2008.
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BOULDER, Colo., March 31, 2008 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host a number of free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of April 2008.
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BOULDER, Colo., March 27, 2008, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the availability of its new Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) Solutions Center and Service Catalog Solutions Center, both part of the firm’s IT Management Solutions Center, a free online resource that provides the industry’s most comprehensive third-party analysis of IT management vendors and technologies.
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BOULDER, Colo., March 5, 2008 – The Société Générale case highlights the critical dependency of business risk control on IT risk management, says Scott Crawford, research director for security and risk management at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Many enterprises either do not see this dependency, don’t understand it, or turn a blind eye to its implications. According to EMA analysis, the root cause of the scandal stemmed from Jerome Kerviel’s alleged ability to thwart both business and IT risk controls, making it clear that it’s time for both business and IT risk managers to get smart about business risk in IT.
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BOULDER, Colo., March 3, 2008 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host three free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of March, 2008.
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BOULDER, Colo. Feb. 26, 2008 – Web browsers have emerged as a favorite vulnerability point for nefarious attackers looking to breach corporate IT security systems. Vital to everyday business operations, the Web browser must be protected from malware lurking on a fast-growing number of infected Web sites, according to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm.
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BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 5, 2008 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) (www.enterprisemanagement.com), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it will host three free Webinars focused on IT management during the month of February, 2008.
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BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 24, 2008 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) (www.enterprisemanagement.com), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today announced its selection of the first-ever EMA™ All-Stars™ in Enterprise Systems Management. Based on extensive research and analysis by a team of EMA analysts, the top solutions in each of 18 enterprise systems management disciplines – including change management, systems configuration management, open source systems management, data center automation and virtualization – are profiled in the firm’s latest research report, “The EMA All-Stars in Enterprise Systems Management for 2008.”
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BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 15, 2008 – While Service Level Management (SLM) solutions are not going away, IT organizations are increasingly turning to Business Service Management (BSM) solutions in their quest to play a more critical business role.
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BOULDER, Colo., December 11, 2007 – Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, today issued its annual take on IT management trends to watch for in 2008. The 2008 trends span the entire IT management market and represent many of the technologies that will be top-of-mind for IT professionals during the coming year, including the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), Service Catalogs, Data Center Automation and Virtualization.
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BOULDER, Colo., November 13, 2007 –Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, was recognized as a Rising Star in the IT & Telecom Research, Reports and Services (ITTRRS) market by Outsell, Inc, a market research and consulting company focused on the information provider industry. The designation appeared in Outsell’s annual report, “Market Research and IT & Telecom Research, Reports & Services: 2007 Market Forecast and Trends.”
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BOULDER, Colo., October 25, 2007 – A new study released by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, found that Data Center Automation (DCA) technologies can effectively reduce Data Center staffing requirements by 50%, saving an average of $750,000 per year on resource costs alone.
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BOULDER, Colo. and NEW YORK (INTEROP), Oct. 23, 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, announced today the formal launch of its ITSM Consulting Services. EMA’s consulting practice now provides comprehensive services for ITSM based on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and component technologies like CMDB, Service Catalog and Service Desk.
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NEW YORK, September 24, 2007—Interop®, produced by CMP Technology, today announced its keynote speaker lineup for Interop New York 2007, taking place at the Javits Convention Center in New York City, October 22-26. Attendees of Interop will have the opportunity to hear from Microsoft, IBM, Google, and XenSource executives as they speak to the industry’s most pressing issues facing the future of the trillion-dollar business technology industry.
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NEW YORK, August 15, 2007—Interop®, produced by CMP Technology, today announced a collocated lineup for the 2007 New York event, gathering Mobile Business Expo, VoiceCon and OutsourceWorld – the premier pure-play business trade platform for executives with a need to outsource business services – at the leading global business technology event, Interop New York 2007. This unprecedented look into the most powerful innovations and solutions the industry has to offer will take place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, October 22-26, 2007.
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BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 9, 2007 – A new study released by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, reports that the Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) market has gained in importance and stature over the last five years as networks have grown more technologically and geographically diverse. The study found that this skyrocketing complexity has driven the requirement for understanding relationships across adjacent network devices and the impact of configuration changes on the behavior of the entire IT infrastructure and its services.
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BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 2, 2007 – The IT Service Catalog is no longer simply a document listing available services nor is a standalone service request management software solution. Rather, it is a dynamic application tied into IT workflow and service request management, says Enterprise Management Associates’ director of IT service management consulting, Hank Marquis. Recent research and direct feedback from EMA’s Service Catalog Assessment Service shows that, when implemented properly, Service Catalogs continue to improve user productivity and IT service quality, often with tangible cost savings.
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BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 30, 2007, IT risk management is no longer strictly about mitigating the negative threats surrounding IT, according to a just-released study by leading independent IT management research and consulting firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Today, new approaches to risk management are delivering strategic corporate benefits by tying once disparate IT initiatives into a more unified and integrated program that helps organizations achieve business objectives. These initiatives play a critical role in shaping an IT governance strategy, enabling the business to define governance priorities and to measure and prioritize enterprise IT risk management more effectively.
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BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 23, 2007 – A new study released by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, reports that Service Level Management (SLM) acceptance continues to grow and that IT executives increasingly view SLM as a vital factor to business success. The 2007 comparative study shows that the number of surveyed organizations implementing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) has risen to 82% of respondents, a 26% increase since EMA’s 2003 findings.
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BOULDER, Colo., August 2, 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the availability of its new Systems Change and Configuration Management Solutions Center, part of EMA’s IT Management Solutions Center, a free online resource that provides the industry’s most comprehensive third-party analysis of IT management vendors and technologies
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BOULDER, Colo., July 31, 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced that Scott Crawford and Andi Mann each have been promoted to Research Director. Crawford and Mann have been the driving force behind EMA’s growing Security and Risk Management Practice and Systems Management Practice respectively.
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BOULDER, Colo., July 12, 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced it has hired four new IT management experts to better serve its research and analysis practice as well as its growing enterprise IT consulting services.
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BOULDER, Colo., July 2, 2007, “Virtualization” is one of the hottest trends in IT management, and according to recent research conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) 75 percent of enterprises have already deployed virtualization in one form or another. The results show the overall virtualization market growing by approximately 26 percent annually. EMA’s research also reveals several common success strategies that IT professionals can utilize to accelerate deployments, including taking a very deliberate and careful approach to planning and making sure that any virtualization initiative is closely aligned with and supports specific corporate goals.
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BOULDER, Colo., June 7, 2007, IT organizations continue to make significant progress deploying Configuration Management Database systems, or CMDBs, according to a just-released study by leading independent IT management research and consulting firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 31, 2007 –Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader of Service Level Management (SLM) solutions, today announced the company is accepting entries for its excellence awards, which is a component of its year-long Best Practices Program for Managed Service Providers. The Best Practices in Managed Services Awards will recognize the achievements of managed service providers who have built a solid business providing exceptional customer service. A comprehensive review of the entries will be performed by an impartial, multidisciplinary panel of third-party jurors comprised of Lisa Ericsson-Harris, research director of Enterprise Management Associates, Mike Vizard, editorial director of Ziff Davis Media’s Enterprise Technology Group, and Charles Weaver, president of the MSP Alliance. Any managed service provider who wants to test and measure their business practices against others in the industry may participate.
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BOULDER, Colo. and LAS VEGAS, Nev. (INTEROP), May 22, 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, announced today the availability of its new EMA Advisory Notes Service. The year-long subscription service provides IT professionals with access to EMA’s succinct, focused Advisory Notes that deliver actionable recommendations on the latest technology developments impacting the enterprise. Subscribers will also receive access to EMA’s industry-focused Impact Briefs, timely reports that break down the impact of mergers, acquisitions and major new product introductions.
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BOULDER, Colo., April 30, 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, announced today it will move its company headquarters to new offices located at 5777 Central Avenue, Suite 105, in Boulder, Colo. During the past year EMA has added several new IT management experts to its staff of industry analysts and consultants to meet the increased demand for its services.
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BOULDER, Colo., April 25, 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, announced today its extensive participation in the upcoming IMI IT Service Management Forum. EMA’s COO, Dan Twing, and Hank Marquis, director of IT service management consulting, are scheduled to deliver several presentations and lead executive roundtables on a variety of topic concerning the increased adoption and deployment of ITSM programs.
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BOULDER, Colo., April 10, 2007 – Application security threats pose a growing risk to the enterprise and may result in data security breaches like those for which the FTC has exacted penalties of up to $15 million plus a significant loss of customer confidence, according to a new study published by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
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BOULDER, Colo., March 20, 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced that Hank Marquis has joined the firm as the Director of IT Service Management Consulting. Marquis will work closely with IT organizations and IT vendors to implement and optimize IT service management practices into their operations and products.
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BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 31, 2007, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the release of its in-depth and independent study on Enterprise Content Management. The 62-page research report “Enterprise Content Management: Toward a New Content Paradigm” explores enterprise content usage patterns, business drivers, expectations, preferred vendors, distribution requirements and more. EMA is now offering this report for purchase, as well as free access to a number of ECM resources.
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BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 16, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the release of the first in-depth and independent study on autonomic computing. The 25-page research report “Is the Industry Ready for Autonomic Computing?” explores current end-user awareness of and attitudes toward autonomic computing. Later in 2007, EMA will complete a follow-up study that will focus on vendors’ current and future plans to build autonomic capabilities into their products. EMA is offering this report for purchase – as well as free access to a number of other resources such as EMA’s IT Management Solutions Center – at www.enterprisemanagement.com
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BOULDER, Colo., December 21, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the expansion of its analyst team with the addition of Steve Brasen, a 19-year veteran in enterprise systems management, primarily with telecommunications and finance companies including AT&T and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), MCI WorldCom, and Salomon Smith Barney. As an analyst at EMA, Brasen will work closely with renowned industry expert Andi Mann and focus his coverage on the rapidly expanding Systems Management arena.
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BOULDER, Colo., December 19, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the release of its 2007 Research Calendar, which highlights many of the more than 200 new items the firm plans to add to its already extensive IT Management Research Library during the next 12 months. In addition to its traditional Research Reports highlighting original study findings and Impact Briefs covering the implications of key industry events, EMA will add dozens of Advisory Notes focused on providing actionable guidance to enterprise IT professionals deploying IT Management technologies in support of business objectives. To view EMA’s 2007 Research Calendar click here.
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BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 13, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced key findings from its recent in-depth and independent study on Application Performance. The 106-page report, “Managing Application Performance Over the Network: An Assessment of IT Issues and Priorities,” expands on reports from 2000 and 2003 to address a wide range of new technology issues, management challenges, and organizational and process concerns that the prior reports did not cover. EMA is offering this report for purchase, as well as free access to a number of other Application Performance resources at www.enterprisemanagement.com
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BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 29, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced key findings from its recent in-depth and independent study of the advanced analytics functionality of leading IT Management products. The 115-page research report “EMA’s Analytics Roadmap” details the analytics capabilities of 44 solution providers spanning the IT Management market – from service assurance, to security, to configuration and change management, to asset and storage management. EMA is offering this report for purchase, as well as free access to a number of other Analytics resources at www.emausa.com
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BOULDER, Colo., November 16, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the promotion of Dan Twing to chief operating officer. Twing will be responsible for developing and executing strategic market research, delivering value to enterprise IT organizations through consulting engagements and directing product development and marketing efforts. He joined EMA as vice president of research and client services in 2005 and has more than 20 years of experience in information systems, software development and technology outsourcing.
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LAS VEGAS, Nev., Nov. 6, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today unveiled new resources and services designed to help IT professionals successfully plan for and deploy Configuration Management Database (CMDB) initiatives. In addition to the most current and in-depth market research available on CMDB, EMA is now offering complete CMDB consulting services as well as free access to the CMDB Solutions Center, a comprehensive online resource that covers the basics of CMDB and provides the ability to search and compare objective profiles of CMDB offerings from different vendors side-by-side.
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BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 28, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced the availability of a new report covering the landscape of IT solutions that address the increasingly vital concern for the security of information. The 75-page research study, “The Security of Information: A Strategic Approach to Current Topics and Trends,” offers executives and enterprise IT professionals insight into the available solutions that are shaping the management and security of business-critical information and how the various technologies best fit together. EMA is offering this report for purchase, as well as free access to a number of other information security resources at www.emausa.com
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BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 21, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced key findings from the final study in its three-part series on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) marketplace. The research report, “SOA: A View from the Trenches,” presents in-depth insight into how today’s enterprises are using SOA technology to solve real-world business problems. EMA is offering this report for purchase, as well as free access to a number of other SOA resources at www.emausa.com
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BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 12, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced key findings from its recent in-depth study, “Asset Management: From Niche to Keystone in Enterprise Management.” The 160+ page research report analyzes the evolving asset management marketplace and provides IT buyers with a clear set of comparisons and guidelines with which to invest in holistic and dynamic asset management strategies. EMA is offering this report for purchase, as well as free access to a number of other Asset Management resources at www.emausa.com
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BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 31, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced key findings from its recent in-depth study of the IT virtualization market. The 125+ page research report, “Virtualization: Exposing the Intangible Enterprise,” analyzes the state of virtualization, with a specific focus on the current and future market, business drivers, benefits and IT management challenges of this emerging technology. EMA is offering this report for purchase, as well as free access to a number of other virtualization resources at www.emausa.com
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BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 29, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, has launched the EMA IT Management Solutions Center, a free online resource that provides the industry’s most comprehensive third-party analysis of IT management vendors and technologies. Building upon the success of EMA’s SLM Solutions Guide, the EMA IT Management Solutions Center includes additional topics that span the IT management technology spectrum. This fully interactive online resource guide is available now at itsolutions.emausa.com
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BOULDER, Colo. and SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 22, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, and Hydrasight, a technology-focused analyst research and advisory firm based in Sydney, Australia, today announced an alliance that will offer a much-needed alternative for IT management research, analysis and consulting services to IT professionals throughout the Asia Pacific region.
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