Managing New Networked Worlds--A Report on IM 2005.

The article reports on the 9th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2005, which took place during May 15-19 in Nice, France. This year's IM was under the motto "Managing New Networked Worlds." Information technology and networking technology evolve more quickly than ever. Context awareness, convergence at every level, virtualization of resources, massive P2P infrastructures, and unprecedented security challenges are all examples where the technology to be managed imposes a significant impact on management. IM explored the challenges in evolving management just as quickly to keep up with those advances. The Technical Program consisted of 53 papers in two technical tracks. They covered state-of-the-art research across a wide range of topics such as application monitoring, traffic monitoring, cluster and server control, topology management, utility and SAN management, dimensioning and provisioning, pricing, QoS composition and adaptation, policy management, measurements, OSS and middleware, service management, threshold management to allow for more event-driven management, and more.