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    The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management

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      1The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management

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      The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management

      Michael Vizard Editorial Director Ziff Davis Enterprise

      2The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Systems Management

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      1. You cant manage what you dont know you have.

      3The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Storage Management

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      2. Utilization rates of 10 to 15 percent would suggest that there is very little management of anything stored going on today.

      4The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Security Management

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      3. We have lots of cops securing IT but no headquarters for them to report to.

      5The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Network Management

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      4. Sending packets is like launching a fleet of trucks without a map, hoping that somehow they will all get to where they are going and be in the same shape they were in when they left.

      6The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Application Management

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      5. Does anybody really know how many applications a company has running, and on what systems?

      7The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – License Management

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      6. Does anybody really know which users are authorized to use which applications (and how much)?

      8The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Business Process Management

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      7. You cant manage what you cant see, or, for that matter, understand.

      9The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Asset Management

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      8. How much stuff do we own thats not actually listed in this database?

      10The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Digital Rights Management

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      9. You have no rights because people will use your content regardless of what you have to say about it.

      11The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Data Management

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      10. The fact that we have, at a minimum, 10 copies of everything ever produced suggests that the data is managing us rather than the other way around.

      12The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – What We Need

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      The industry as a whole needs to move toward a more holistic approach to the management of enterprise computing that will make IT management no longer the biggest oxymoron of all.

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