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Managed Application Delivery - Is Thin Client the Best Answer? (podcast)

whitepaper Learn how new models of application delivery are simplifying corporate computing environments and helping companies deal more effectively with their IT security, management, and budgeting needs. Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast, available on...

Tags: thin clients, centralized, models, virtualization

[15 May 2008]

Best Practices for Data Center Infrastructure Design: Cabling Distances and Space Planning

whitepaper When designing and laying out a data center, understanding best practices as well the pros and cons for each type of data center is critical. It is also specific about equipment not being directly connected unless it is specifically required by the...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Dear silicon.com... outsource vs insource, Naked CIO on open source, password overload…

Comment First up this week, readers were engaging in debate over the pros and cons of outsourcing. Outsourcing is more complex than it looks. In these places it has been repackaged as a "commercial" system, providing the standards that software developers...

Tags: password, offshore, outsourcing

[08 May 2008]

Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'

News Meanwhile, the poorest IT pros are those in the north of England where the average is £34,130. Tech recruitment company Computer People's IT Salary Review 2008 also found more than a third (39 per cent) of IT pros surveyed are actively looking to...

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

Accessing Exchange 2007 From Your Apple Macintosh (Part 1)

whitepaper This paper examines the various options for accessing Exchange from Apple Mac OS X including a discussion of some of the pros and cons of each solution. It outlines the steps required to configure both the client and Exchange to allow access.

Tags: mac os

[23 Apr 2008]

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Hosting: A Deployment Experience Overview

whitepaper It shares the experience of Microsoft Information Technology (Microsoft IT) in expanding the hosted team site and portal offerings at Microsoft and upgrading them from Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Tags: application servers

[28 Mar 2008]

Oracle Homes in an Oracle Real Application Clusters Environment

whitepaper It is obvious that each node in a clustered environment needs the Oracle software in order to access an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) database. This paper will discuss the pros and cons of each method as well as explain how to complete...

Tags: database management

[28 Mar 2008]

Reclaiming Data Center Real Estate Using KVM and Remote Management Technologies

whitepaper One such device to aid in this effort is the KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) switch that enables IT pros to easily and effectively manage servers and other network devices -- within the data center or from remote locations.

Tags: infrastructure management

[27 Mar 2008]

Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News The UK's high tech sector will need tens of thousands extra skilled migrant workers in the next five years, but attracting skilled IT pros from abroad to plug those gaps may become more difficult. This millennium skills gap was plugged...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

Security skills top IT chiefs' wish-lists

News Three-quarters of IT managers rate security as the most important skill for IT pros to have, according to a survey of more than 3,500 bosses by tech industry body CompTIA. 'Safety first' is still the motto written in sweat above the door of IT...

Tags: security, wireless, skills, rfid

[13 Mar 2008]

Are remote workers hitting you where <strong>it</strong> hurts?

Are remote workers hitting you where it hurts?

News The survey polled 2,000 IT pros in various industries in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. Almost two-thirds (62 per cent) of IT decision makers surveyed by networking giant Cisco in an annual poll...

Tags: remote workers, cisco, security, workers

[11 Mar 2008]

LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking

Comment So if you're interested in how many people live in London, you go to Google and you can find that out but if you're saying where should we build our European headquarters and what are the pros and cons of various choices, you can get advice from...

Tags: linkedin, network, online, facebook

[28 Feb 2008]

TechNet Webcast: eDiscovery for E-Mail (Level 200)

whitepaper This webcast discusses the e-discovery requirements that IT professionals face, and demonstrates how Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Hosted Archive can help IT pros prepare for and respond to these requests.

Tags: application servers

[27 Feb 2008]

Migrating From Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Lotus Notes and Domino 6

whitepaper It lays out the different options that the organization has for a future messaging infrastructure and discusses the pros and cons of each alternative. It begins with a discussion of the reasons an organization using Exchange 5.5 would want to move...

Tags: application servers

[20 Feb 2008]

London streets paved with gold for IT workers?

News Wages for London IT pros are rising faster than their peers in the rest of the South East region. The average permanent IT salary in the South East is £33,513, according to IT recruitment agency CV Screen which conducted the survey.

Tags: london, techie, pay

[17 Jan 2008]

Commons' committee calls for reckless-data-loss laws

News MPs have called for the reckless loss of computer data and personal information to be made a crime but IT industry leaders and legal experts have urged the government to avoid knee-jerk legislation. Any move to criminalise data loss could put...

Tags: data loss, government, security, law

[03 Jan 2008]

North-South pay gap narrows

News Salaries for IT pros in the North grew 4.8 per cent last year, compared to 3.7 per cent for Londoners. Butterfield said IT pros in London are "highly dependent on the health of the financial services industry" - which means the credit crunch could...

Tags: pay, skills, north, professionals

[02 Jan 2008]

Which CRM Deployment is Right For You? A Guide to Multiple CRM Deployment Options

whitepaper And the more you know the pros and cons of each deployment model, the more certain it is that you will embark on a path to CRM success. Selecting the right CRM deployment model must first and foremost address your key business problems and...

Tags: customer support services, crm, deployment, guide

[16 Dec 2007]

Which CRM Deployment is Right For You? A Guide to Multiple CRM Deployment Options

whitepaper And the more you know the pros and cons of each deployment model, the more certain it is that you will embark on a path to CRM success. Selecting the right CRM deployment model must first and foremost address your key business problems and...

Tags: customer support services, crm, deployment, guide

[16 Dec 2007]

Live Webcast: Ensuring True High Availability for Microsoft Exchange

whitepaper If there is a "killer app," it's e-mail. The pros and cons of Exchange 2007's HA features Business communications rely heavily on e-mail, and an increasingly mobile base of users and clients continually lowers the tolerance for e-mail downtime.

Tags: monitoring systems, exchange, mail, questions

[16 Dec 2007]

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