Windows in the Enterprise
Virtualize your business
Organizational Leadership - Preparing Leaders for Virtualizing the Business
Virtual business success begins at the top with Internet savvy leadership. What do you do, then, if after reviewing the leadership readiness questions you discover the firm's leaders are not ready to go virtual? This post explores a few of the most common hurdles of leadership readiness and how to overcome them as you build your business case for taking the firm virtual.
Apple: Inside the cult
HP to do it right by doing it itself?
Or: What happens when you suddenly realize that your business depends on somebody else's.
Unix as a Second Language
Replacing the DVD in My G4
Replacing a failed DVD drive in a Mac G4 takes only a few tools and a few tricks. Here's how I muddled my way through to a working system.
VoIP Security: Secrets and Hype
(Is There) Motivation for VoIP Fuzzing
What have we learned during these six or so years of proactive security work with VoIP fuzzing? Here is my top ten discoveries.
Smart Tech for Small Biz
Google and the Browser OS Push
Google-watching, now a fine art, went into hyperdrive with their new Chrome browser (one of many stories here). Some reports say Chrome already has one percent of the browser market, an impressive rollout.
ITwhirled
Second Life romance ends extremely badly
Kimberly Jernigan of Durham, N.C., met a Delaware man in Second Life but the gentleman, perhaps predictably, ended the romance after the two met in person. And that's when things took a turn for the worse.
Lead IT Right
Seven ways to build technologist teamwork
Teamwork is made even more complex as employees increasingly work at a distance from one another. While sophisticated communication devices allow team members to collaborate on a project from different locations across the country, there are also some less technology-centric ways of encouraging teamwork.
Here are seven tips to help maintain and strengthen the IT department's teamwork and cohesion.
Get Started with Microsoft Expression Blend
The design phase
Some of you may also be having a grumble right now, because you were sold on this concept of “rapid prototyping” with Expression Blend from Microsoft, which is fantastic and exactly the process you would rather be taking to really speed up this entire design phase, except for one little problem: if your designers are not comfortable with Blend, then you are not going to get a heavily designed prototype.
Inside the Channel
Blogs useful for integrators
Normally, I don’t spend time reading blogs. If I read all those that I’d find useful, I’d never get anything done. Nevertheless, there’s some good stuff out there.
Symantec Backup Exec 12 and Backup Exec System Recovery 8 deliver industry leading Windows data protection and system recovery. Download this whitepaper to find out the top reasons to upgrade and how to get continuous data protection and complete system recovery.
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Businesses face a growing challenge to ensure that the IT environment is properly protected. Backup Exec 12 integrates with other applications in the Symantec family of products, to complement your current data protection strategy, keep your data securely backed up and make it recoverable when you need it most.
VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise
By Edward L. Haletky
Published Dec 29, 2007 by Prentice Hall.
Enter now! | Official rules | Sample chapter
Green IT
By Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert C. Elsenpeter
To be published Oct. 10, 2008 by McGraw Hill Professional
Enter now! | Official rules | About the book







