Webalizer: A Holistic Remedy [06/25/2009]Cover Your Assets: The Webalizer is a handy marketing and technical tool, available for free.
Virtualization Readies for the Second Half [06/24/2009]Virtually Speaking: As 2009 hits the halfway mark, virtualization seems tied with Twitter in popularity. For virtualization, however, the business value is more clear.
DOS: A Virtual Legacy [06/18/2009]Cover Your Assets: Are DOS applications still driving you crazy? A DOS virtual machine may be the solution.
Dialing for Pennies [06/11/2009]Cover Your Assets: Get the 411 on how to pay your phone bill with pocket change.
Succession Planning: Key to Retaining Talent [06/05/2009]Career & Staffing: Letting people know they're being groomed for advancement can reinforce their value to your firm and boost loyalty.
When Good Data Goes Bad [06/04/2009]Cover Your Assets: Backup and Restore are major pain points for any business; ease yours inexpensively.
The Path to Better Data Center Power Management [05/29/2009]Power and Cooling: Whether they like it or not, organizations will need to learn how to better manage data center power consumption. Coordination between facilities and IT will streamline the process.
The Free Software Alternative [05/28/2009]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.
IT Salary Levels, A Five-Year View [05/19/2009]Career& Staffing: IT salary levels have fluctuated considerably since 2004. Lucrative opportunities remain for qualified professionals.
5 Ways to Save Green by Going Green [05/14/2009]Cover Your Assets: Are you having difficulty finding ways to 'go green'? Here are some simple tips to get you started.
Top 10 Compliance Issues for IT [05/13/2009]As IT environments grow ever more complex, properly monitoring them grows ever more challenging.
Windows Frugalization [05/07/2009]Cover Your Assets: It's possible to decrease your Windows total ownership costs. Really.
SSDs, The Pros and Cons [05/05/2009]Solid state drives show much promise but their drawbacks may limit widespread adoption any time soon.
Free Desks and Chairs, Anyone? [04/23/2009]Cover Your Assets: Buying office furniture used to be so simple -- just like choosing an OS.
Linux Delivered Your Way [04/16/2009]Cover Your Assets: Can't find what you want in a Linux system "off the shelf?" Create your own custom version.
A Tidal Wave of Regulations to Hit IT Shores [04/14/2009]Think complying with Sarbanes-Oxley or HIPAA was challenging? Better start getting ready for the tsunami of new compliance regulations likely to wreak havoc in IT departments when it hits some time in the next 12 to 18 months.
Six Steps to Securing an IT Interview [04/09/2009]Career & Staffing: Having trouble landing an interview for your dream job -- or any job for that matter? Check out these tips and strategies for scouring the job market, targeting openings and preparing your resume.
Geekonomics 101 [04/08/2009]Cover Your Assets: Think like a geek. Buy like a geek. Save like a geek.
4 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Staff [04/03/2009]Career & Staffing: Here are four ideas to motivate your staff members to continue putting forth their best efforts.
Spend Trend: Thin Clients [04/01/2009]Cover Your Assets: The new spin in spend trends is thin — thin clients. And they are far from the "dumb" terminals of yesteryear.
Internal vs. External Cloud [03/26/2009]Cloud computing has many potential benefits, but it has a number of drawbacks as well. Building an internal cloud mitigates many of these drawbacks, but it is not without its own limitations.
Is Using Linux Too Frugal? [03/25/2009]Cover Your Assets: Will too much frugality lead to economic collapse? Say it ain't so.
IT Consulting: 'Coping Mechanism' Or Career Path? [03/20/2009]Career & Staffing: The overall jobs picture is bleak, but for unemployed IT pros willing to consider consulting, opportunities (and paychecks) may abound.
Are Service Contracts Better Than Employees? [03/19/2009]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 [03/11/2009]Cover Your Assets: Your training dollars might be gone, but your training opportunities aren't.
The Great Hypervisor Giveaway [03/04/2009]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.
Hyper-V 2.0: Microsoft's Virtualization Offering Grows Up [03/03/2009]Hyper-V's feature set may not be on par with those offered by VMware and others, but don't expect it to remain at the back of the pack forever. The next release will include Live Migration, Virtual Machine Manager module and other sought-after functionality.
Top IT Job Sites, Beyond the Big 3 [02/27/2009]Career and Staffing: The best IT job sites are helpful, but to get the most out of an online job search you need to look beyond CareerBuilder, Monster and Yahoo. Here are more than 25 sites worthy of investigation.
Could Server Netbooks Reshape the Market? [02/23/2009]Netbooks are changing the personal computing landscape. Could servers with similar attributes take the server market by storm?
Commercial Linux Distro Support Shootout [02/18/2009]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.
Are You Preserving Your Most Valuable Data Center Asset? [02/04/2009]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.
Flying Solo, A How-to Guide for Turning Job Loss Into Opportunity [01/29/2009]Career and Staffing: Laid-off? There may be no better time than the present to develop that product you've been daydreaming about or launch that consulting firm. Here are some tips to get you started.
Service Outsourcing: A Frugal Quest [01/28/2009]Cover Your Assets: Outsourced services bring a smile to your accountant and a good night's sleep to you.
AppLocker, BitLocker, BranchCache and More [01/26/2009]Here are the top 5 features in Windows 7, you've been waiting for. They may even be enough to persuade you to bypass Vista.
Linux, Are You Our Hero? [01/21/2009]Cover Your Assets: They say that a hero can save us; I'm not gonna stand here and wait.
Go Beyond the Technical Interview Acid Test [01/15/2009]The key to acing -- not just surviving -- the technical interview isn't so much what you know but how you convey it.
11 Staffing and Salary Predictions for 2009 [01/13/2009]Janco Associates has released its January 2009 IT Salary Survey, and the picture it paints is far from pretty. Layoffs, company closures, cost cutting and returning retirees dampen IT salaries and jobs.
News From VMware, Microsoft Portends a Year of Change [01/07/2009]Virtually Speaking: Does a new desktop OS from Redmond and a new COO at VMware foreshadow the year to come? Plus, some recommended articles about virtualization from around the web.
News Next-Generation Web Experience on Its Way [June 26, 2009]
It may be impossible to predict what innovation will bring, but it is possible to predict some of the attributes of the future.
Tutorials Make It Snappy With Vim [June 22, 2009]
Tip of the Trade: Learn how to set your own abbreviations and mappings in the ever-useful Vim.
Reviews XPerience ClearBox Enterprise RADIUS Server [January 27, 2009]
No matter how much experience you have with RADIUS servers, XPerience Technologies' ClearBox's low price point and seemingly high feature set aims to have something for you.
