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Latest News

  • Cisco, Microsoft certification boosts job and pay prospects

    Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP) and Microsoft Certified Systems Administrators (MCSA) all landed on the list, showing that high tech workers who can prove they are adept at Microsoft systems…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Workers • Skills • Requirement • Professionals • Certified • Certification

  • Microsoft patches Excel security hole

    This is a great example of why administrators should take time each month and research the information associated with each bulletin. Yet with Excel being commonplace in most companies, systems will need to be addressed.MS10-017 should be addressed…
    10 March 2010
    Tags: Vulnerabilities • Patches • Explorer • Experts • Bulletin • Addressed

  • EMC offers deduplication for VWware on Celerra NAS

    EMC announced an upgrade to the management software on its Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) arrays that will allow administrators to apply deduplication, thin provisioning and business continuity tools to data stored in VMware environments…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Provisioning • Fails • Automated • Arrays • Array • Administrator

  • Cisco set to release VPN client for mobiles

    For example, if the user is in India or China, an administrator may want to implement stronger security measures, said Axel Foery, head of Cisco's borderless network architecture for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.Administrators will also have…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Send • Malicious • Germany • Attachments • Appliances • Administrators

  • Cisco invests in virtualisation security start-up HyTrust

    Analysts have praised HyTrust's technology for solving authentication problems in VMware's hypervisor with more granular auditing and security controls, and for letting administrators set policies that won't be overridden by other tools.In an…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Vmware • Unified • Investment • Hypervisor • Capital • Administrators

  • Citrix buys asset management company

    Citrix has bought asset management company Paglo Desktop management and virtualisation software company Citrix has purchased IT-asset-monitoring service provider Paglo.Citrix plans to fold Paglo's services into its own Citrix Online remote support…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Log • Desktop Computers • Citrix • Asset Management • Administrators

Latest Features

  • Will the cloud take your IT job?

    In some respects, system administrators function like auto mechanics, needing keen diagnostic skills and repair capabilities to keep a complex mixture of disparate systems operating as a whole.Of course, data centres have become far more complex…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Skills • Harder • Developments • Centralised • Car • Article

  • Start your virtualisation project right

    The project is typically managed by server administrators, who in many larger organisations are separate from the IT security team, and the security team are engaged late in the project.This scenario can lead to security becoming overly…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Virtualised • Server Virtualisation • Implications • Game • Breaches • Appliances

  • Is your network in gold medal shape?

    With servers being provisioned and de-provisioned rapidly, manual processes to manage DNS, DHCP and IP address space will be a major hindrance to adoption of virtualisation, or worse yet it will disappear into a new set of spreadsheets managed by…
    13 February 2010
    Tags: Shape • Ip Address • Dns • Demands • Business Processes • Automation

  • Apple iPad offers IT department opportunities

    It would also be easier to manage from a security aspect, as the network administrators take care of user access control to any given data resource on the local network.If Apple is serious about the business angle of the iPad they will need to…
    11 February 2010
    Tags: Tablet • Skill • Presentations • Opportunities • Gadget • Covering

  • Would you like a data centre with that server?

    He says Matrix lets administrators remove and reinsert blades between slots, while virtual connects ensure that storage and network resources move with them - no re-provisioning required.The systems also allow for workload balancing based on the…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Provisioning • Data Centre • Differentiate • Compute • Matrix • Orchestration

  • IEEE to standardise virtual data centre switching

    Adoption of the specs would make management easier for server and network administrators by requiring fewer elements to manage, and fewer instances of element characteristics, such as switch address tables, security and service attribute policies…
    18 January 2010
    Tags: Switching • Hypervisor • Vm • Battle • Access Control • Joining
 

How-Tos

  • The problem with S/MIME email encryption

    Every S/MIME customer I have is begging for this sort of functionality.The administrators don't even care if they have to copy the keys manually between the e-mail system and the archiving system, although automation would be better.
    09 November 2009
    Tags: Emails • Packets • Scan • Method • Archiving • Encrypted

  • How to manage multivendor virtualisation

    Success will come when virtualisation administrators have tools that support smart, not just mundane, work, says EMA's Mann. But virtualisation has never been a perfect world, and it's even less so now that companies are implementing multiple…
    14 October 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Infrastructures • Hypervisor • Virtual Machines • Virtualization • Server Virtualisation

  • Case Study: Network behaviour analysis secures university

    The security policy at the university cuts such computers off from the outside world and gives systems administrators four days to remediate the problems. Wayne State University is currently planning a move to a distributed deployment model to…
    08 September 2008
    Tags: Vulnerabilities • Behaviour • Analysis • Visibility • Administrators • Labs

  • Readers' favourite free network tools

    Others aggressively scan the network to the point where security devices -- and other administrators - may detect the scan and classify it as an attack. Running Active Ports on a machine provides that valuable information instantly.Multi Router…
    02 June 2008
    Tags: Evaluate • Utilities • Remote Access • Producing • Statistics • Network Management

  • Case Study: University gives top marks to virtual cell Wi-Fi

    The decision to go with Foundry produced other benefits too, he says, in particular it has a single OS across its switches, so his administrators need less training.We have a team of 10, with two on the wireless side.
    16 April 2008
    Tags: Inter • Controllers • Events • Buildings • Training • Aps

  • Case Study: The virtual virtualisation case study

    Erics server administrators, Ed Blum and Mary Edgerton, had used VMware Server and Microsoft Virtual Server before and werent impressed by their performance. Ed and Mary, the two server administrators, loved HPs management software, so Eric felt…
    08 February 2008
    Tags: Examine • Virtual Server • Server Virtualisation • Ed • Hadn • Missioncritical

Reviews

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 review

    The aim here is for SCVMM to be the "single pane of glass" that administrators can use to move, create, manage, troubleshoot and otherwise oversee their virtualized infrastructure. With 2008 R2, I was able to convert an existing desktop machine on…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Vm • Virtual Machines • Maintenance • Hosts • Clustering • Cluster

  • Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 review

    Administrators can further lock down the type of site changes users can make with SharePoint Designer.For developers, new SharePoint tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 should reduce the work of designing Web Parts and other advanced customisation.
    09 November 2009
    Tags: Business Users • Expertise • Administration • Sql Server • Safari • Forms

  • Lumension application control review

    Users and administrators can quickly deny all unauthorised applications, modules (Visual Basic), and scripts (JavaScript and VBScript only) in an emergency. Administrators can use regular SQL query tools and reports to extract events or export them…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Unauthorised • Events • Endpoint • Adobe • Signatures • Execution

  • CoreTrace Bouncer application control review

    Administrators can define Trusted Applications (applications that are allowed to run), Trusted Digital Signatures (all applications signed by the same digital signature can run), Trusted Network Shares (any application in a trusted location can…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Active Directory • Events • Rogue • Trusted • Preventing • Buffer

  • Bit9 Parity Suite

    Administrators can run reports to see which computers are at highest risk in their environment and then work to resolve those outliers first.Another statistic, called Drift, indicates how many program executions have been approved by a trusted…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Category • Metrics • Alerts • Trust • Identified • Trusted

  • Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server OS review

    Apple's Server Preferences administrative application in Leopard was available only if Advanced wasn't chosen; we've not used them subsequently because Server Preference choices had no depth and were superficial.In Snow Leopard, simple basic…
    03 November 2009
    Tags: Mac Os • Book • Apache • Contacts • Extension • Operating Systems

White Papers

  • Best practices for optimising performance and availability in virtual infrastructures

    Many IT administrators have already learned the hard way that managing the performance and availability of services built on virtualisation technologies can be difficult, if not impossible at times. Initial virtualisation deployments are typically…
    06 November 2009
    Tags: Centralised • Availability • Virtual Machines • Deployments • Configurations • Realise

  • Make internet risks and perils disappear

    Network administrators spend inordinate amounts of time deleting persistent malware, advising victimized users, restoring corrupted data files and otherwise cleaning up messes. Make internet risks and perils disappear Network Testing Labs Realise…
    30 October 2009
    Tags: Amounts • Bank • Administrators • Account • Dangerous • Benefits

  • When corporate network safety starts at employees' homes

    Today, as the lines between home and business computing continue to blur, even enterprise IT administrators need to be concerned with their employees security practices on their home wireless networks.
    04 June 2009
    Tags: Datacentre • Hackers • Endpoint • Appliances • Protecting • Vpn

  • Seven Key Steps for Identity Management in a Unified Communications World

    Managing identity across these components can be problematic because they involve multiple vendors, and technology elements that are new to the network administrators like voice systems. Unified Communications enables people to use the most…
    24 September 2008
    Tags: Integrate • Communication • Channels • Productivity • Task • Enable

  • An All-In-One Approach To Web Security

    Granting web access to employees poses challenges to IT administrators in a number of ways and introduces unique security risks. Even as companies have perfected their security techniques to guard against network intrusion, hackers and data thieves…
    21 April 2008
    Tags: Implemented • Administrators • Techniques • Intrusion • Gateway • Pull

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective IT Administrators

    In this whitepaper, discover seven critical habits of highly effective administrators: those job skills and personal qualities that will allow IT administrators to build success for their careers and their companies.
    15 April 2008
    Tags: Skills • Job • Administrators • Careers • Habits • Qualities

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