Data Deduplication: A Tongue Twister Worth the Effort
[January 14, 2010] Frugal Server Admin: From the Department of Redundancy Department, 'clean up your copies.' It's an easy way to save some cash.

The Next Decade Brings Growing Pains of Teen Years
[December 17, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Will the next ten years be perceived as the "lean teens" or "green teens" for data centers?

Even the Shoddiest Server Deployments Work -- On Paper
[December 10, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Plan carefully when making changes to your data center. What you detail on paper may not translate successfully to the actual rack.

Is Your Data Center an Ugly Baby?
[December 3, 2009] Cover Your Assets: It's time to face the ugly truth about your data center, aka 'baby.' Things may seem pristine on the surface, but despite the neatly organized racks, and fans blowing and lights blinking, everything is a mess. Here's one company's tale.

SSDs, Coming Soon to a Server Near You
[November 25, 2009] Cover Your Assets: SSDs aren't just for netbooks and notebooks anymore. They're headed to your data center.

Is It Lights-Out for Your Data Center?
[November 19, 2009] Cover Your Assets: A new data center trend might be your light at the end of the tunnel.

Creative Living Under Budget
[November 12, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Does your 2010 budget have you seeing red? Living creatively under budget takes patience and creativity. Upgrading wisely, budgeting monthly and recycling willfully is one way to achieve this and find temporary refuge from this economic slump.

When Frugality Hurts: The Pain of Cutting Resources to the Quick
[November 5, 2009] Cover Your Assets: How do you know when you've trimmed too much budget, too much staff and consequently, too much profit? Because it hurts when you do that.

When Security Is Too Much of a Good Thing
[October 29, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Security is both necessary and good, but can it make your environment less usable? Single sign-on and virtual LANs are two options for securing your internal environment with minimal performance impact.

Windows 7: Ready or Not, Here It Comes
[October 22, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Are you ready for Windows 7? Is Windows 7 ready for you?

Rough Waters Ahead for Software Pirates
[October 15, 2009] Cover Your Assets: If you think a few hours of unscheduled downtime is bad for your business, compare that to a few years of down time for software piracy.

Active Directory and the Heterogeneous Data Center
[October 8, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Help for Active Directory integration for Unix, Linux and Mac OS X has arrived. Here are three products to aid you in the travail.

Is Windows 7 a Keeper, a Sleeper, a Loser or a Weeper?
[October 1, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Are you trying to decide whether to invest in Windows 7 for the long haul?

The Frugal Side of Commercial Software
[September 24, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Being frugal is more than just being cheap, it's being smart. Nowhere is this more the case than commercial software, where fewer options mean fewer excuses.

Opting for Open Source
[September 18, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Open source software is all about freedom, but is the price of freedom too high?

Buying Commercial Software Just Got Easier
[September 10, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Sometimes, buying commercial software costs an ounce of money and saves a pound of cash. Other times, rolling your own makes more sense.

Why You Need a Fuller Data Center
[September 3, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Do you really need all those servers? Could you do just as well with half of them, or as few as a third?

Pondering a Host of Golden Virtual Server Deals
[August 27, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Forget about cloud computing. Virtual Private Servers look and feel like the real thing.

Please Re-Lease Me and Let Me Serve Again
[August 20, 2009] Put a new lease on that infrastructure and get a new leash on your finances.

Desktop Choices: Mac, Linux, Windows, Browser -- Browser?
[August 14, 2009] Cover Your Assets: You have a fourth choice for your desktop operating system, but it seems to be a well-kept secret.

Google Yourself
[August 6, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Google is more than just a search engine. It also offers a buffet of business services.

The Journey to Virtual Freedom
[July 30, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Head for the shores of virtualization's peaceful and freeing refuge.

FreeNAS: Free and Snazzy Storage Solution
[July 23, 2009] Cover Your Assets: The NAS in FreeNAS doesn't stand for Nice and Simple, but it could. Here's one DIY project that's too much of a cost savings -- in time and money -- to pass up.

The Community Data Center, a New Way to Share Your Sandbox
[July 16, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Learn how to turn a kindergarten-level principle into a real money-saver.

You Can't Afford to Save This Much Money
[July 9, 2009] Cover Your Assets: When you convert from a physical to a virtual infrastructure, is the money you save real or virtual?

Webalizer: A Holistic Remedy
[June 25, 2009] Cover Your Assets: The Webalizer is a handy marketing and technical tool, available for free.

DOS: A Virtual Legacy
[June 18, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Are DOS applications still driving you crazy? A DOS virtual machine may be the solution.

Dialing for Pennies
[June 11, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Get the 411 on how to pay your phone bill with pocket change.

When Good Data Goes Bad
[June 4, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Backup and Restore are major pain points for any business; ease yours inexpensively.

The Free Software Alternative
[May 28, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Still using Microsoft Office 97 because you can't justify an upgrade? Check out the free alternatives to that and other commercial software.

Making Old Hardware New Again
[May 21, 2009] Repurposing old computers instead of buying new machines can make sound financial sense, especially when trading conditions are tough and the economy is in a bad way.

5 Ways to Save Green by Going Green
[May 14, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Are you having difficulty finding ways to 'go green'? Here are some simple tips to get you started.

Windows Frugalization
[May 7, 2009] Cover Your Assets: It's possible to decrease your Windows total ownership costs. Really.

MacFrugal, It's My Way or the iWay
[April 29, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Is buying a Mac for your business frugal or frivolous?

Free Desks and Chairs, Anyone?
[April 23, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Buying office furniture used to be so simple -- just like choosing an OS.

Linux Delivered Your Way
[April 16, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Can't find what you want in a Linux system "off the shelf?" Create your own custom version.

Geekonomics 101
[April 8, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Think like a geek. Buy like a geek. Save like a geek.

Spend Trend: Thin Clients
[April 1, 2009] Cover Your Assets: The new spin in spend trends is thin — thin clients. And they are far from the "dumb" terminals of yesteryear.

Is Using Linux Too Frugal?
[March 25, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Will too much frugality lead to economic collapse? Say it ain't so.

Are Service Contracts Better Than Employees?
[March 19, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Do you really need employees when a good service contract can fill the void at a fraction of the cost?

Learn Linux Leanly
[March 11, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Your training dollars might be gone, but your training opportunities aren't.

The Great Hypervisor Giveaway
[March 4, 2009] Cover Your Assets: If you've been waiting for someone to lower the cash required for a physical to virtual conversion, your wait is over.

Vista vs. Windows 7: You Call This a Choice?
[February 25, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Saying goodbye to Windows XP isn't as easy as it sounds. Are you prepared to do it?

Commercial Linux Distro Support Shootout
[February 18, 2009] Cover Your Assets: If you're looking to deploy Linux in the enterprise, chances are you're considering Red Hat, SUSE or Ubuntu. Sure, whichever one you pick will likely save you money, but don't forget to factor support into the mix. Doing so will save you both dollars and headaches in the long run.

Is Linux Cheaper on the Desktop Than Windows?
[February 11, 2009] Cover Your Assets: It might surprise you to know how much that Windows desktop computer is really costing you.

Are You Preserving Your Most Valuable Data Center Asset?
[February 4, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Penny-pinching without a good plan is just being cheap and won't result in getting the best ROI out of your most valuable assets -- inside the data center or out.

Service Outsourcing: A Frugal Quest
[January 28, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Outsourced services bring a smile to your accountant and a good night's sleep to you.

Linux, Are You Our Hero?
[January 21, 2009] Cover Your Assets: They say that a hero can save us; I'm not gonna stand here and wait.

Ruby programmer or Hacker, Are You Betting the Farm on BeanieBoy01?
[January 14, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Know with whom you're working on that all-important project or it could cost you the farm.

Introducing Cover Your Assets, A Weekly Reality Check of Frugal vs. Folly
[January 7, 2009] Cover Your Assets: Learning the difference between frugal and folly will save your IT budget, your job and your sanity.