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By: Frank Ohlhorst dnu Imagine you’re a network manager, happily living in your world of Windows servers and desktops, when out of the blue, the CTO marches in to inform you that not only is the art department switching to Macs but the CFO wants to save a few bucks by going the Linux route, […]

By: Frank Ohlhorst dnu The rapid growth of virtualization has created complex IT environments that are becoming increasingly harder to manage. Part of that management challenge comes from hastily deployed products, which often lack the proper deployment documentation needed to monitor the virtual infrastructure in place. Veeam Software aims to bring order to that documentation […]

By: Frank Ohlhorst dnu Version 14 of WhatsUp Gold, the popular network and server monitoring tool, sports a new module named WhatsVirtual that, simply put, makes the product virtualization-aware. WhatsUp Gold has grown in features and capabilities from an SMB (small and midsize business) network management tool to something appropriate for the enterprise, yet the […]

By: Frank Ohlhorst dnu Virtual desktop infrastructures are supposed to make things easier, especially for IT staffers, who can eschew many of their desktop management chores as virtual desktops replace traditional ones in the enterprise. However, enterprise network administrators are finding managing VDI solutions has become a time-consuming, less-than-ideal process. As VDI implementations grow, so […]

By: Larry Seltzer Yes, there is still a WordPerfect, and yes, Corel is still developing and updating the product. And it might even be a good solution for many users, even if some of its selling points are oversold. Corel says that WordPerfect dominates the non-Microsoft part of the desktop office suite market-an obvious swipe […]

By: Larry Seltzer As far as security goes, the operating system of the future is, in many ways, here today. Led, somewhat ironically, by Microsoft Windows, operating system vendors and some other software vendors have been making their products more secure by default. They also have been providing tools and best-practice guidelines for application developers […]

By: Frank Ohlhorst dnu Managing an ESX or ESXi server can be a daunting task, especially when things go wrong. Administrators trying to troubleshoot thorny issues need an effective ally, a friend that can be counted on to always tell the truth-Xangati is aiming to be that trusted friend to administrators managing balky VMware ESX […]

By: Frank Ohlhorst dnu Distributed enterprise networks are one of the most difficult mechanisms to manage in today’s IT environments. The combination of equipment, locations, software, personnel and policies can make it almost impossible for an IT administrator to comprehend what is happening on the network and how that affects business operations. SolarWinds offers a […]

By: Frank Ohlhorst dnu Many businesses are struggling to meet compliance requirements, and for most, the biggest challenge is e-mail. E-mail compliance is a complex endeavor, since administrators need to save e-mail conversations, archive them, build indexes and have a means to retrieve those conversations. What’s more, the stored conversations must be protected from tampering […]

By: Frank Ohlhorst dnu Savvy network managers are using open-source software to provision new, inexpensive virtual servers, fueling the exponential growth of server clusters, server farms and Web applications. However, just throwing additional servers into the mix is an inefficient way to add capacity. Efficiency requires that loads be properly spread across resources, and that’s […]