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EDITOR’S COMMENTSTooling Up forChange ManagementArecent Web search for the phrase change managementreturned over 30,800,000 results. That fact alone elevateschange management to the status of a bona fide buzzword—with its abundant references to personal and organizationaldevelopment, business process reengineering, and countlessother disciplines. But for the IT professional, change managementin the data center translates to much more than abuzzword. It is a way of life. In this first 2005 issue of DellPower Solutions, we’ll help you get a handle on new systemsmanagement tools that can alleviate some of the effort requiredto keep pace with constant change while ensuring server healthacross the enterprise.In our cover story, “Managing Change Through Industry-Standard Technologies,” author Paul Laster helps you tacklechange management head-on, with a technical drill-down onthe Dell OpenManage 4 systems management infrastructure.Among the latest standardization developments in thisarea is Dell’s recent announcement with Microsoft regardingthe availability of integrated patch management usingMicrosoft ® Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 and DellOpenManage 4. Through the SMS 2003 Inventory Tool for DellUpdates, IT administrators can harness the power of SMS toseamlessly apply patches across distributed Dell PowerEdge server hardware via the same processes they use for updatingoperating systems and application stacks.For a broader perspective on Dell’s systems managementstrategy, read our Executive Insights interview withRhonda Holt, vice president of systems management softwareat Dell. This interview articulates Dell’s focus on standardizingsystems management elements in the data center tocontinually add value for enterprise customers, including adiscussion of recent enhancements to the Dell OpenManageportfolio and tight integration with key industry partners andstandards bodies.In-depth guidance on systems management tools andtechniques appears in the New-Generation Server Technologysection. Among the highlights are articles covering remote configurationof the standard baseboard management controller(BMC) in the latest Dell PowerEdge servers and best practicesfor systems management with the new Dell PowerEdge 1855blade server. You’ll find even more technical guidance formanaging Dell blade servers in articles that explore remotemanagement, configuration for optimum networking availabilityand performance, and how to take scalability to newlevels using server virtualization software such as VMware ®ESX Server software.In addition to general systems management topics, this issueexplores leading-edge content in the Scalable Enterprise andStorage sections, and concludes with a continuation of our highperformancecomputing (HPC) coverage, featuring seven fresharticles that range from streamlining Beowulf cluster deploymentson Linux with the NPACI Rocks toolkit to designing HPCclusters with the new Dell PowerEdge SC1425 server.To move beyond our roster of 30 articles in the print edition,point your browser to www.dell.com/powersolutions toget our Web edition, which includes the latest Web-exclusivecontent. Turn to page 4 for a preview of the four online-extraarticles featured in this issue.Tom KolnowskiEditor-in-Chieftom_kolnowski@dell.comwww.dell.com/powersolutions6POWER SOLUTIONS Reprinted from Dell Power Solutions, February 2005. Copyright © 2005 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. February 2005
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