Rick Sturm is a principal with and a cofounder of Enterprise Management Professional Services, Inc., and has over 15 years experience in network and systems management. In his role with EMPS, he consults with companies to help them determine how they to address the problems of managing their networks, systems, and applications. Rick currently writes a column on network management for Internet Week (formerly Communications Week) and occasionally contributes to other industry publications, including Network World, Network Computing, and Computerworld. Working With Unicenter TNG underwent a thorough technical edit by CAß³ worldwide consulting and implementation staff.