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  • VMworld: EMC expands virtualisation consulting for private cloud

    For example, the company is offering a consulting service for re-evaluating an organization's application portfolio before making the change. Also on Wednesday, the company introduced management services for Ionix, a suite of management tools…
    02 September 2009
    Tags: Virtualised • Portfolio • Adopt • Training • Centers • Carried

  • Symantec aims to build bridges across islands of storage

    We are trying provide a standard set of tools" so admins aren't restricted to working only on those familiar products, said Wilkins.Server Foundation High Availability integrates the Veritas Cluster Server, protecting the application as well as…
    20 March 2008
    Tags: Compatibility • Disaster Recovery • Cluster • Veritas • Data Storage

  • BI tools aiding corporate results

    The department solved the problem of "people always wanting access to all the data" by implementing customised training programmes based on a user's role within the organization, he noted.Steve Simon, senior technology officer at State Street, an…
    24 May 2007
    Tags: Queries • Business Intelligence • Workers • Trade • Boost • Expanding

  • Sun tweaks Java licensing but does not go open source

    Additionally, the platform will add WSIO (Web Services Interoperability Organization) Basic Profile support, which already is in J2EE. Due to ship in the first half of 2006, Mustang will focus on Web services, performance, monitoring, management…
    17 March 2005
    Tags: Officials • Compatibility • Licences • Source Code • Licensing • Paul Krill

  • Government sectors not doing enough with CRM

    According to the study, CRM in the government sector is still considered emerging, but government agencies are embracing the notion that the people and organizations they are servicing are customers, not citizens or constituents.Also, while…
    07 July 2003
    Tags: Agencies • Executives • Respondents • Sector • Crm • Organizations

Latest Features

  • The 10 hottest IT jobs

    A service catalog manager can play a significant role as a change agent from a utility IT organisation to a service-focused IT organization. Sourcing specialistSoftware-as-a-service, cloud computing, managed services, outsourcing and offshoring…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Seek • Network World • Cycle • Contracts • Assurance

  • Will Windows 7 spread desktop virtualisation?

    Server- or SAN-based storage is secure, backed up, cheaper to maintain and far more rarely lost, broken or abused than a laptop, Winburn says.And, Thornton says, even looking just at hardware costs, virtual desktops saved his organization about…
    15 December 2009
    Tags: End Users • Virtual Machines • Terminal • District • Cost Savings • Texas

  • End-to-end encryption: The PCI security holy grail

    Other challenges include:* Key management* Key transmission* Key storage* Changing encryption keysPCI DSS and Data EncryptionFor starters, encryption should be seen as a fundamental element of an organization's risk management program.
    14 September 2009
    Tags: Scenarios • Overhead • Procedures • Seamlessly • Data Storage • Endtoend

  • Microsoft's new multi-core computing guru speaks out

    I have done a lot of that over the last few years on the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, and I am also chair of the umbrella organization that represents all of the academic and industrial research labs in computing in…
    30 November 2007
    Tags: Interfaces • North America • Science • Scalable • Next Generation

  • Does 802.11n spell the 'end of Ethernet'?

    Adding wireless to the corporate infrastructure has allowed our professionals to move from one physical office to another and conduct meetings or work sessions.anywhere within the organization.The Burton report tackles the performance differences…
    25 September 2007
    Tags: Access Point • Wired • Wall • Wlans • Deployments • Priority

  • Los Alamos data leaks due to 'gross mis-management' (Part 2)

    The previous Site Office Manager not only surrounded himself with managers lacking competence but chastised employees in front of their peers who attempted to improve the organization through constructive criticism.
    21 March 2007
    Tags: Safety • Implemented • Fear • Investigation • Transition • Lab
 

How-Tos

  • How to manage remote workers

    Teams, the workhorse units of the organization, are increasingly "virtual," consisting of people working across space, time zones, and often cultural boundaries. The benefits of virtual teams include:Integrating diverse knowledge and skills to…
    19 January 2010
    Tags: Differences • Reality • Achieve • Leverage • Skills • Priority

  • How to reuse your old virtual hosts

    If your organization places a high value on uptime, now is the time to put your toe in the water and give it a try. The new high-availability features in ESX 3.0 were a huge draw to many businesses seeking better uptime, and the refined centralised…
    02 September 2009
    Tags: Failover • Hypervisor • Volumes • Vm • Hosts • Snapshot

  • Case Study: A city in Kansas does tapeless backup

    The City also operates critical public safety dispatch servers for Johnson County, as well as the emergency operations center servers for the Mid-America Regional Council, the regional planning organization for Greater Kansas City.Overland Park's…
    09 May 2007
    Tags: City • Backups • Restore • Libraries • Agent • Veritas

  • Case Study: Baptist Memorial Health Care

    As the organization expanded, their two key limitations with tape unreliable and slow backups became readily apparent. Because there are more than 45,000 patients a year under Baptists care, the IT department also had to factor in the link…
    16 February 2006
    Tags: Installing • Footprint • Restore • Materials • Regulations • Data Storage

Reviews

  • Citrix XenApp 5 review

    Well before the production servers fire up for the first time, every application within an organization should be tested and verified to function normally within a XenApp session.The major apps like Microsoft Office are generally not an issue, but…
    23 September 2009
    Tags: Active Directory • Flagship • Playback • Terminal • Installations • Balancing

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 review

    Chances are the lion's share of SQL Server instances in any sizable organization aren't enterprise edition, and for these instances to be the exception in the backup plan just isn't acceptable.Look at it like this: database size isn't the reason…
    05 November 2008
    Tags: Queries • Inclusion • Query • Shops • Loading • Business Advisor

  • Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

    And thanks to VSAPI 2.5, its now possible to prevent infected email from leaving an organization by scanning outgoing mail.Carrot and stickMicrosoft has a sizeable task on its hands if it wants to see a widespread uptake of its new mail server…
    03 September 2003
    Tags: Conferencing • Active Directory • Scanning • Deployments • Outlook • Clustering

White Papers

  • Accelerating Virtualised Environments

    Is your organization grappling with the performance challenges of virtualization and IT consolidation? Furthermore, the paper discusses the simplified IT administration and improved resource management benefits WDS solutions yield.
    13 February 2009
    Tags: Resource • Consolidation • Availability • Virtualization • Addressing • Data Services

  • Improving accuracy of spend analysis with data quality and commodity coding

    Procurement professionals are being asked to reduce the organization's overall spend, some by as much as 20 percent in a year, while simultaneously improving supplier collaboration. Companies now realise more than ever the effect of procurement…
    01 February 2009
    Tags: Supplier • Analysis • Accuracy • Strategic • Strategies • Goods

  • Global Asset Sustainability

    Global Asset Sustainability Infor EAM The Key to a Greener Organization whitepaper For businesses, proper asset management can deliver environmental benefits. Companies initiating such programs find that their bottom lines actually improve through…
    07 September 2007
    Tags: Lines • Programs • Organizations • Asset Management • Greenhouse

  • Transforming Your Enterprise: Transforming IT to deliver business value

    The unique business priorities, people, operational processes and culture of an organization should guide any infrastructure improvement. Certainly not a one-size-fits-all solution, HP delivers an Adaptive Infrastructure through its full complement…
    09 July 2007
    Tags: Processes • Service Management • Administration • Adaptive Infrastructure • Achieving

  • The Rising Importance of Enterprise Content Management

    Effective information management is key for an organization to achieve high performance and yet the sheer abundance of unstructured data causes a number of challenges. For example, the cost of data management has increased; finding the right…
    24 May 2007
    Tags: Accounts • Content Management • Unstructured Data • Organization • Insights

  • Data Management and the Journey to High Performance

    Data is quickly becoming the lifeblood of an organization, and a valuable enterprise asset. Data Management and the Journey to High Performance Accenture Despite years of investment data is not accessible, accurate, complete and secure whitepaper
    24 May 2007
    Tags: High Performance • Investment • Achieve • Asset • Assess • Organizations

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