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Hot MoMs: Page 5 of 6

This means most MoM vendors won't be able to transition to the enterprise. Not only aren't they going to be able to adjust their products to offer enough shrinkwrap functionality, but doing so would remove their professional services revenue. That's a double whammy.

Bruce Boardman is executive editor of Network Computing, testing and writing about network management and systems. He has 12 years' IT experience managing networks and distributed computing for a financial service provider. Send your comments on this article to Bruce Boardman at [email protected]

Meet the new MoMs. These managers of managers aren't baking apple pies--they're overseeing your network and putting a quick end to the "Johnny did it!" problems that ensue when applications, systems and networks are monitored by different management tools.

Because these products monitor all three major components--the network, applications and systems--they can help find the root cause of problems that ultimately result in service delays to customers and other end users.

MoMs are expensive and take a lot of work to implement and maintain; that's why they're best suited to large, complex organizations running multitiered applications. In the midsize-enterprise sector, companies running e-commerce and financial services applications can also benefit from the event management these packages provide.