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  • Blue Coat offers virtual appliance for branch offices

    By using a software appliance, they can get everything on one device.Hawthorn said that it wasn't just the cost of replacing the hardware but the saving on maintenance costs too. However, Hawthorn said that it wasn't wholly about the price of the…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Wan • Maintenance • Licence • Branch • Appliances • Appliance

  • Cisco, Microsoft certification boosts job and pay prospects

    The A+ certification, also from CompTIA, is often associated with technical support professionals and shows an IT pro can install networks and conduct preventative maintenance, as well as secure and troubleshoot networks.Security certifications…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Workers • Skills • Requirement • Professionals • Certified • Certification

  • EMC offers deduplication for VWware on Celerra NAS

    So when you want to deploy a thousand new virtual machines through cloning.that's a couple of hours of time saved.The plug-ins also automate the failback process for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager software in NFS environments, which is…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Provisioning • Fails • Automated • Arrays • Array • Administrator

  • IBM reduces server sprawl with new eX5 portfolio

    Moreover, there is a positive impact on all of the other key components of IT cost--space, power, labour, maintenance. IBM is offering organisations an opportunity to experience more scalable, workload-tuned computing on the x86 platform.
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Workloads • Scalable • Licensing • Demanding • Class • Cent

  • Microsoft Office 2010 free to Office 2007 buyers

    Some analysts have argued that Microsoft dumped upgrades to prevent business customers from using a loophole to avoid paying Microsoft's pricey software maintenance fees.Office 2007 Home and Student currently sells for $104 at Amazon.com, $45 less…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Student • Office Professional • Klein • Confirmed • Buyers

  • Avoid 'one-size fits all' for desktop virtualisation says IDC

    User organisations needed to take into account elements such as the cost of acquisition of the hardware - a commitment to capex - as well as the cost of hardware and software deployment and maintenance; the cost of managing of multiple…
    25 February 2010
    Tags: Workers • Wary • Warned • Rollout • Idc • Elements

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    It could be a rogue employee seeking revenge - like the software engineer who hacked into an Australian water treatment plant's SCADA system in 1991, releasing 264,000 gallons of raw sewage.Or it could be an external attacker who gains entry into…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • Will the cloud take your IT job?

    Mechanics replace the ECUs simply because they dont have a better way to fix them, he says.The garages and the maintenance people are really at a point where repairing a car is too complex and demanding [for them], says Broy.
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Skills • Harder • Developments • Centralised • Car • Article

  • When clouds need to stop at the border

    Indeed, while the primary facility may be in-country, the failover site, or perhaps the site used when the primary site is under maintenance, could be across the border and, thus, noncompliant.The problem is that most people looking to move into…
    26 February 2010
    Tags: United States • Stored • Providers • Country • Cloud Computing

  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    In the same way that Outlook provides a richer experience than Outlook Web Access, Microsoft is betting customers will find SharePoint Workspace preferable to Google's strictly Web-based collaboration services, including Google Wave and Google…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Redmond • Flagship • Cloud Computing • Argue • Architect • Apis

  • Is your network in gold medal shape?

    A new printer needs to be installed near the marketing department; the request for provisioning an IP address touches three or more hands and takes longer than a day.A switch needs to be taken offline for maintenance; again you have to break out…
    13 February 2010
    Tags: Shape • Ip Address • Dns • Demands • Business Processes • Automation

  • The 10 hottest IT jobs

    This includes responsibilities that fall into three categories -- planning and implementing a service catalog, financial management aspects of a service catalog, and rollout and maintenance of service catalog," reads a recent Forrester Research…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Seek • Network World • Cycle • Contracts • Assurance

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  • Five reasons to embrace Intel Xeon 5600 processors

    That means that you can consolidate fifteen servers down to one physical machine - reducing the hardware costs and minimising the need for maintenance and administration.3. Intel unveiled an array of new Xeon 5600 server processors.
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Xeon • Optimised • Heat • Evolution • Energy • Array

  • How to move your small business to the cloud

    And such services require no maintenance from the user.Easier collaboration with colleagues in distant locations is another oft-cited cloud benefit.If you're the kind of small business that has employees who work from different places--or has…
    01 February 2010
    Tags: Transition • Small Businesses • Small Business • Microsoft Office • Founder • Cloud Computing

  • Top 5 barriers to fully virtualising your data centre

    I don't any more: I'm confident the stuff is out there and I can find it again when I need it, with a simple search, without building my own repository, taxonomy, and maintenance procedures.The good news here is that new features are being created…
    21 January 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Addressed • Production • Strategies • Complexity • Missioncritical

  • How to save your business money on print costs

    Replacement cartridges are sent to Rent-A-Center stores before they're needed, and High Touch dispatches a service partner in the area when monitoring shows that a device needs maintenance. But he is bullish on MPS as the solution to escalating…
    20 January 2010
    Tags: Copying • Productivity • Scale • Printing • Stores • Cost Savings

  • How to build your own Wikipedia

    Maintenance is critical," says library technologist West, who has created, and describes herself as a happy end user of, many wikis. He chose a wiki, a software application that allows groups of users to create, edit and comment on online documents…
    05 January 2010
    Tags: End Users • Management System • Cio • Guidelines • Mention • Edit

  • How to customise Windows 7 your way

    Clear the checkbox next to one or more of the security or maintenance options.4. Tweakers, rejoice! Windows 7 offers more customisation options than any previous version of Windows - from total control over annoying pop-up system messages to…
    22 October 2009
    Tags: Lock • Jump • Downloads • Startup • Disable • Lists

Reviews

  • HP Compaq 8100 Elite review

    Still, it's a useful inclusion for listening to presentations or online video, you just won't want to use it for music.The HP Compaq 8100 Elite case's interior is well laid out, making for easy maintenance and expansion.
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Windows Xp • Slots • Slot • Intel Core • Connections • Business Users

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 review

    The CSV also removes a lot of the complexity associated with clustering VMs, a difficult process one edition ago.SCVMM 2008 R2 introduces the notion of maintenance mode, which is a way for an administrator to apply updates or perform maintenance…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Vm • Virtual Machines • Maintenance • Hosts • Clustering • Cluster

  • Virtual Desktop kit round up

    We looked at the client side experience and the server-side maintenance and administrative qualities of each product.In the past, terminal services sessions were plagued by choppy screen refreshes and slow response times, partly due to the use…
    13 January 2010
    Tags: Windows Server • Virtual Machine • Vdi • Sessions • Session • Remote Desktop

  • Essential guide to the best software for small business

    If you need to share spreadsheets across your team, but don't have the funds for a data centre, then a web application can be ideal.The most obvious advantages to using web apps is the low cost and zero maintenance for storing data in the cloud.
    17 November 2009
    Tags: Apps • Microsoft Windows • Microsoft Office • Functionality • Storing • Pick

  • Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server OS review

    On the surface, Apple's Snow Leopard Server feels like a $499 maintenance release, but underneath, there's much more -- improved performance, more polish and new apps focused on collaboration and content sharing.
    03 November 2009
    Tags: Mac Os • Book • Apache • Contacts • Extension • Operating Systems

  • Dell OptiPlex 760 desktop

    This PC provides plenty of power but maintenance is more difficult than with other small form factor systems we've seen.The Dell OptiPlex 760 is slightly smaller than the Lenovo ThinkCentre M58p but provides similar features.
    06 July 2009
    Tags: Chassis • Hd • Hard Drive • Ratio • Connections • Reveal

White Papers

  • Partitioning with Oracle Database 11g release 2

    It is not unusual for partitioning to improve the performance of certain queries or maintenance operations by an order of magnitude. Partitioning can provide tremendous benefits to a wide variety of applications by improving manageability…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Improving • Archiving • Oracle Database • Tens • Partitioning

  • Oracle Data Guard with Oracle Database 11g release 2

    Finally, in a time when all businesses must reduce expenses, Data Guard standby databases deliver high return on investment when used for queries, reports, backups, testing, or rolling database upgrades and other maintenance, while also providing…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Databases • Implement • Oracle Database • Standby • Guard

  • Five steps to successful data centre consolidation

    Through careful planning and a commitment to continued maintenance, data centre consolidation provides the ability to achieve attainable, sustainable savings during a time when such opportunities are both necessary and rare.
    23 June 2009
    Tags: Savings • Consolidation • Data Centre • Budget • Bmc • Commitment

  • Improving process flexibility

    This helps increase uptime, and reduce maintenance costs. To thrive in today's competitive market midsize organisations need to be agile, responding quickly to changing market conditions and exceeding customers' demands.
    09 June 2009
    Tags: Demands • Enhanced • Centralised • Conditions • Economic • Flexibility

  • Gap Analysis: The Case for Data Services

    A data service approach makes data access and integration scalable by streamlining development and maintenance, whether applications speak Web services, SQL, or both. Most corporate data is currently stored in departmental relational databases.
    25 November 2008
    Tags: Relational • Databases • Lines • Bridge • Structures • Gaps

  • Back to Business: How Business Modeling Rationalises Data Warehousing

    Overly-complex designs were created, full of latency from too many layers and burdened with ongoing maintenance costs that exceed those of most operational systems.Today's business environment demands extreme measures to find efficiencies and to…
    22 October 2008
    Tags: Designs • Business Intelligence • Data Management • Storing • Latency • Assume

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