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May 16, 2008
Technology Insights
April 23, 2008
Surfing the Internet, accessing e-mail, and utilizing VPN connections while flying the friendly skies could soon become a reality. In-flight...
Will ISO standardization change what format organizations use internally? Will they be more likely to upgrade to newer formats sooner as a result?
A release management process ensures that changes released into the production environment are stable. Application changes ar...
Building a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server is a relatively straightforward process in most cases. Ensuring the FTP server...
IT leaders may be asked to set up the enterprise’s externally-facing podcasting effort. Podcasting presents a simple engineer...
Passwords are supposed to be a simple and effective means of authenticating identity and thereby maintaining security. Howeve...
NEC and Stratus are marketing their low end fault tolerant servers as small to medium business platforms. With industry stand...
As enterprises evolve and processes change, existing HR systems can quickly become redundant, inefficient, and obsolete. Opti...
Use Cases are a proven and effective technique for organizing and documenting the functional requirements of an automated sys...
The use of previously owned network equipment provides a 50% cost-saving opportunity and can simplify the expansion of existi...
For enterprises to be able to properly retain and secure their information assets, they must first classify them to establish...
Passwords are supposed to be a simple-to-use and effective means of authenticating identity and ther...
As with other enhanced security management tools such as Security Information Management and Policy ...
Employees everywhere routinely use USB-based memory devices and other removable media types such as ...
A recently released voice-activated Smartphone from HP allows enterprises to add voice-activated men...
Microsoft’s Data Protection Manager 2007 promises to enhance the existing DPM 2006 product. Microsof...
Selection Advice
A help desk knowledgebase tool can improve both quality of service and efficiency of IT service operations. This editable template includes all the...
Strategy and Planning
Enterprises continue to face the challenge of rapidly deploying high-performance applications across network infrastructures. Cross-functional teams...
Management and Staffing
Info-Tech finds that IT departments run into the same classic issues in getting the business on board when planning enterprise application projects....
IT Projects are characterized by changing technologies, uncertainty, and shifting business needs and objectives. Review core project management...
Wikis have broken free from the confines of the consumer market and are gnawing their way into the enterprise world. Analyze the range of potential...
With the introduction of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft has improved its built-in failover cluster capabilities. With enhanced setup and management...
HP, EMC, and Dell have significantly upgraded their entry-level Storage Area Network (SAN) offerings. Driven by the combined impact of iSCSI and...
Xandros Linux is gaining attention following volume consumer sales of the Asus Eee notebook featuring Xandros Desktop, Xandros' acquisition of...
Info-Tech sees increased interest in thin client deployments as the technology that supports the back end evolves with virtualization. With more...
SharePoint 2007 has given rise to a new set of issues concerning data backup and recovery. While the latest release of SharePoint has improved its...
Among Unified Communications (UC) platforms, IBM Lotus Sametime 8 is suitable for enterprises with requirements for cross-platform support and...
Operate and Optimize
When a LAN is upgraded or refreshed, there may be new features and functionality that create opportunities to optimize network performance. Often the...
Some business applications require stringent service levels on a 24x7 basis. Regrettably, the network management infrastructure required to support...
Many IT professionals may not recall the FCC’s Carterfone Decision, which provided “open-access” to public telephone networks. Almost forty years...
In the vast majority of situations, enterprises rely on Value Added Resellers (VARs) to purchase LAN equipment. Similarly, many organizations use...
IT projects are a normal aspect of small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) life. To increase the chances for ongoing IT project success, review core IT...
Wikis are no longer just a consumer technology. There are a growing number of business-oriented wiki solutions that address the needs of many small...
Small enterprises looking at Linux will find that Novell’s SUSE offering is suited for standard Linux roles as well as office-worker desktop...
Small enterprises running Windows applications and needing high availability should consider migration to Windows Server 2008. Improved clustering...
Even though malware has been surpassed as the most significant threat that enterprises face, it has not been eliminated and indeed, continues to...
Trends and Predictions
Studies of IT security threats as a whole routinely show that internal threats are the most damaging. These same studies also illustrate that...
