Making The Move To Multicore: Your free ride on the Moore's Law bandwagon is coming to an end. Now how are you going to speed up your apps?
By Roger Smith
/ Oct 16, 2008
Rollout: Monolith Takes On BSM Establishment: Startup goes open source to tangle with the big boys, but its mSuite offering has some growing up to do.
By
Michael Biddick
/ Jan 10, 2008
Can Web 2.0 Evolve Into an Enterprise Technology?: Growing Pains Wikis, mashups, social networking, even Second Life can have a place in business, but they need to improve legacy interoperability—and IT needs to overcome its skepticism.
By
Andy Dornan
/ Oct 22, 2007
Analysis: Mobile E-Mail: Attack of the Drones Once a prized perk for corporate execs, now the masses are clamoring for mobile e-mail. Here's how to connect employees without breaking the budget.
By
Sean Ginevan
/ Oct 2, 2007
Mashup Basics: Three for the Money: Thinking about letting end users loose to mash up Web sites, enterprise apps and eve-rything in between? Here's what you need to know.
By
Andy Dornan
/ Sep 5, 2007
Linux Vs. Mac: Which Is The Better Windows Alternative?: If you're a Vista-wary Windows user who would rather switch than fight, should you move to a Linux distro or Apple's OS X? We asked a Mac fan and a Linux advocate to lead a guided tour of each OS.
By
Serdar Yegulalp
Mitch Wagner
/ Jul 18, 2007
A Buyer's Guide To Ultramobile PCs: Ultraportables used to sacrifice too much performance. They're beefing up on features--not weight.
By
Elena Malykhina
/ Jul 26, 2007
Build An Entertainment Center For The Mac Or The PC: If you've already got a Mac or a PC, you can build a home entertainment center around your current computer. Here are two sample systems to help show what can be done.
By Laurence Loeb
/ Jul 12, 2007
Five Networking Pet Peeves: Here are some of the more frustrating, unsolved networking problems that can get your blood boiling, in the opinion of our expert.
By
David Strom
/ Jul 5, 2007
Network Design Manual: Cisco Network Admission Control, Volume II: NAC Deployment and Troubleshooting: Read the first chapter from the book, "Cisco Network Admission Control." This guide from the Cisco Press Networking Technology series focuses on the key management components that make up the framework, showing you how to build and troubleshoot a self-defining network.
By Jazib Frahim, Omar Santos, and David White
/ Jul 3, 2007
Analysis: Video in the Enterprise: From corporate communications to customer support, a video stream is the next best thing to being there. Here's how to make it work on your network.
By Phil Hippensteel
/ Jun 29, 2007
What To Do When Windows Vista Crashes: Little-Known Recovery Strategies Because Microsoft's new operating system is bigger than its predecessors, it's more of a pain to reinstall. Here are some backup, repair, and monitoring methods so you won't have to, even if you encounter fatal startup errors.
By
Alexander Wolfe
/ Jun 25, 2007
Analysis: Enterprise Search: Seek and Maybe You'll Find New search appliances claim to be uniquely adapted to meet enterprise needs. We tested eight enterprise search products and analyzed the technology's security and architectural implications. Our take: The math just
doesn't add up.
By Ben DuPont
/ Jun 18, 2007
The State of Data Backup Protection: Mo' Sizzle Cheap disks and smoking bandwidth have changed the face of backup. In tandem with evolving technologies like de-duplication and more efficient use of VTLs, backup is hot. We explore new approaches to data archiving that won't bust your budget.
By
Howard Marks
/ Jun 18, 2007
Put Your USB Drive To Work: 5 Strategies For Going Mobile: Your flash drive can do more than just hold data -- it can give you the ability to take your PC anywhere. Here are five strategies for making the most of that tiny USB key.
By Serdar Yegulalp
/ Jun 14, 2007
Five Enterprise 2.0 Startups To Watch: To differentiate their products from companies like Microsoft and IBM, they'll have to do things differently.
By
J. Nicholas Hoover
/ Jun 14, 2007
Special Issue--IT Automation: Best Practices: Start Your Engines Automating infrastructure can free up money and IT staff. With the arrival of new, better-integrated tools, it makes sense to begin the decision making process for optimum ROI.
By Norman J. Jacknis
/ Jun 11, 2007
Inside OS X Security: Keeping Your Mac Safe In An Unsafe World Mac expert John Welch takes you through the threats, holes, and exploits swirling around Mac OS X, and offers up some tips and tactics to protect your system.
By John C. Welch
/ Jun 7, 2007
Special Issue -- IT Automation: Identity Management: Flex Time The key to identity management is fostering partnerships and remaining open to new technologies. We talked to readers, industry experts and vendors to find out if that rings true for them, and what lessons you can learn from their deployment experiences.
By
Greg Shipley / Jun 5, 2007
Special Issue: IT Automation: Server Configuration Management: Put Your Money Where Your Data Center Is Looking to make your network and IT staff more efficient? In this installment of our TCO series, we examine the costs associated with server configuration management, including predeployment planning, rollout and product maintenance. The price tag may be high, but it's a worthy investment.
By
Andrew Conry-Murray
and Bill Driscoll
/ Jun 5, 2007
Strategy Session: The Interop Hangover: With attendence up and conference sessions covering everthing from virtualization to Web 2.0, Interop has morphed from a networking show to an event with industrywide appeal.
By
Art Wittmann
/ Jun 6, 2007
Windows Vista How-To: Moving User Profiles To Vista Systems: Microsoft has made some drastic changes in Windows Vista's support for personalization. How will this affect your move to Vista? Learn how you can mitigate the impact with built-in and add-on tools.
By Danielle Ruest and Nelson Ruest
/ May 30, 2007
The 2007 Summer Gadget Guide: Find sitting on the beach boring? Can't tear yourself away from technology? Here are some great new gadgets that can make your summer fun.
By David DeJean
/ Jun 4, 2007
Analysis: Mobility Apps: Reach Me If You Can Enterprise IT is under increasing pressure to support mobile applications, partner with carriers and develop new support models. We examine the technology trends and drivers and help you determine the best strategies to ensure your organization will be ready.
By
Peter Rysavy
/ May 22, 2007
Best of Interop Winners: The stakes were high and the action hot this week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas when the 2007 Best of Interop Award Winners were announced. Find out who went home with the coveted prize.
By
Lorna Garey / May 24, 2007
Review: Parallels -- The Mac Way To Do Windows: Parallels is an extraordinary accomplishment, allowing you to run Windows and Windows applications on the Mac. However, it still has a couple of flaws.
By
Mitch Wagner
/ May 18, 2007
Online Influencers: How The New Opinion Leaders Drive Buzz On The Web: Bloggers, discussion-board denizens, and social networkers are courted by marketers, who believe they build buzz that can make or break new products and Web sites. But there's growing controversy surrounding such efforts, and debate over just how much sway these opinion leaders really have.
By
Alice LaPlante / May 3, 2007
What's The Greatest Web Software Ever Written?: What are the 12 most important programs we've seen since the modern Internet began with the launch of the Mosaic browser in 1993? Check out our list, and see if you agree.
By
Charles Babcock / May 4, 2007
Windows Vista Tip: Installing And Running Adobe Reader : Vista currently doesn't support older versions of Adobe Reader, and the current version is still being updated for the new OS. So what do you do when you can't read PDF files on Vista? This workaround might offer some insight.
By
David DeJean
/ Apr 26, 2007
Analysis: Mobile Device Management: Management on the Move Can't afford the problems inherent in unmanaged handhelds? A strategic mobility initiative must include device management to keep your users in sync. We evaluate the four leading architectures.
By
Sean Ginevan
/ Apr 24, 2007
Analysis: Carrier Ethernet: The Qwest for Last-Mile Connectivity Carrier Ethernet promises higher data rates, more flexible provisioning and lower cost than conventional WAN technologies, but coverage is spotty. We spoke with Qwest and surveyed our readers about the state of the market.
By
Mike Fratto / Apr 23, 2007
Analysis: Enterprise Key Management: Encryption Key Overload If you don't manage encryption--and the keys that it generates--wisely, data will eventually be lost or compromised. We discuss how to keep keys manageable and safe now, and discuss what to look for in an enterprise key management system.
By
Jordan Wiens
Steven Hill / Apr 24, 2007
Top 5 Windows Vista Tips To Personalize Your PC: Our list of hot features to add to your Vista installation includes video wallpaper, making Flip 3-D work more like the Mac's, tuning Firefox's user interface, managing security, and where to get a hold of nifty Sidebar Gadgets.
By
Alexander Wolfe
/ Apr 17, 2007
The State of Business Intelligence: (Good) BI, Cruel World? There's a transformational change going on in business intelligence. Next-generation BI promises speedier, automated decision-making, thanks to affordable computing and storage platforms and advances in business activity monitoring. We assess the changes in the market.
By David Stodder
/ Mar 29, 2007
Inside Apple's Leopard Server OS: Our Mac expert gives you the inside technical scoop on what we know so far about Apple's new OS X Server 10.5, which will be showcased at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
By John C. Welch
/ Mar 26, 2007
Tutorial: How To Plan Your Vista Deployment: If you have a strong business driver for deploying Vista, this 13-step planning timeline provides a basic road map. Obviously, not all migrations will require every step, and larger environments will involve more activities. Many of these tasks may occur in parallel based on resources, budget and motivation.
By Joe Hernick
/ Mar 20, 2007
5 Google Tips To Improve Your Search Experience: Want an RSS feed of all Britney, all the time, or 3-D modeling software? Beyond basic search and apps like Google Earth, here are some little-known tips to enhance your online experience, including a free way to generate Sidebar Gadgets for Windows Vista.
By
Alexander Wolfe
/ Mar 14, 2007
Analysis: Data De-Duping: An Antidote to Bloated Storage Backup devices are filled with redundant data. These tools and techniques for de-duping promise a 20-to-1 reduction in storage requirements by extending the time backups reside on disk and saving bandwidth during off-site storage.
By Howard Marks
/ Mar 12, 2007
Vista in the Enterprise: Our Readers Sound Off Death. Taxes. Vista. Face it--some things are inevitable. We surveyed over 500 readers about the good, the bad and the ugly of Microsoft's latest desktop OS and developed a rational upgrade path.
By Joe Hernick
/ Mar 13, 2007
IT/Business Alignment: Can't We All Just Get Along?: Everyone loses when IT staffers refer to users as "lusers" and treat their customer base like the enemy, and when those same customers are often clueless about their role in project failures, and IT in general. Here's how to start reshaping attitudes and strengthen this critical relationship.
By Patricia Keefe
/ Mar 13, 2007
Windows Vista's 90-Day Report Card: Microsoft's new operating system hasn't revealed any gaping security holes, but some influential users are holding back for other reasons.
By
J. Nicholas Hoover
/ Mar 9, 2007
Top 22 Mac OS X Products: Part One: Our Apple expert John C. Welch picks 22 lesser-known applications that can make your Mac experience more productive and more fun.
By John C. Welch
/ Mar 1, 2007
Top 22 Mac OS X Products: Part Two: Our Apple expert John C. Welch picks 22 lesser-known applications that can make your Mac experience more productive and more fun.
By John C. Welch
/ Mar 1, 2007
5 Ways To Know When It's Time To Find Another Job: Are you underpaid and overworked? That's an obvious sign of a bad job; career experts from Challenger Gray & Christmas and Monster.com offer advice on when you should consider your next career move.
By
Sharon Gaudin
/ Mar 5, 2007
User-Friendly Linux: Do You Ubuntu? Red Hat, Novell and Oracle are scrapping for your Linux support dollars. But could you save big by going it alone? As Linux becomes easier to use and gains big-name vendor support, we assess available options for fitting the OS into your organization.
By Ben DuPont
/ Feb 27, 2007
Analysis: Browser Security: Browsing for Trouble If your enterprise is considering running critical applications on Firefox and IE, are you courting disaster? We examine the latest in browser security, such as antiphishing technology and validation certificates, to help keep your data safe.
By Roger Beall
/ Feb 28, 2007
TCO Analysis: Software as a Service: Same Dog, Different Fleas IT pros say SaaS must compete on more than price to take a bite out of conventional licensed applications' market share. But what if you could save really big? We evaluate the pros and cons of SaaS adoption
with an in-depth analysis of deployment costs and the projected impact of this service model over a three-year period.
By
Andrew Conry-Murray
/ Feb 28, 2007
Nine Easy Web-Based Collaboration Tools: If e-mail attachments are your idea of advanced collaboration, these Web-based tools from vendors like Google and Zoho can help jump-start your workflow, without straining your budget or brain.
By
Mitch Wagner
/ Feb 22, 2007
Rich Internet Applications: Enabling Web 2.0 Rich Internet Applications form the basis for the next generation of the Web. We size up the strengths and weaknesses of adopting RIAs, which can offer gains in productivity, agility, decision-making and ease of support.
By Pete Payne
/ Feb 12, 2007
Analysis: Information Lifecycle Management: Off the Mark? We examine the business value of adopting ILM tools and practices to manage your data, and why vendors continue to take a scattershot approach to data retention. Can IT pull together a unified game plan? Plus, we review three file-classification products that can help you get a handle on data management.
By Howard Marks
/ Feb 13, 2007
When It Comes To Broadband, U.S. Plays Follow The Leader: The United States often views itself as a paragon of technology innovation and deployment. In some cases, that view is correct, but not when it comes to broadband deployment, where the country lags considerably behind other major nations. Here's why.
By Richard Hoffman
/ Feb 14, 2007
Securing a Wireless Home Network, Part II: Here's Part II from a chapter right out of 'Home Network Security Simplified' that you'll end up showing to every member of your family. It's an easy-to-follow explanation of how to make sure that your home network is secure--why it's important, and amazingly, how few of us actually do it.
By Jim Doherty, Neil Anderson
/ Feb 9, 2007
Securing a Wireless Home Network, Part I: Here's a chapter right out of 'Home Network Security Simplified' that you'll end up showing to every member of your family. It's an easy-to-follow explanation of how to make sure that your home network is secure--why it's important, and amazingly, how few of us actually do it.
By Jim Doherty, Neil Anderson
/ Feb 7, 2007
The Corporate Push Into Virtual Worlds: Companies as varied as Toyota, Dell, Sears, and Adidas have all established bulkheads in the 3-D virtual world called "Second Life." Is this influx of brands an exciting precursor of how we'll be conducting business very soon, or the ultimate exercise in corporate flat-footedness?
By
Alice LaPlante / Jan 30, 2007
Analysis: Voice Over Wireless LAN: Past the Hurdles? Despite the growth voice-over-WLAN systems have enjoyed during the past several years, it remains a nascent--albeit attractive--technology. Can vendors provide standardized devices before enterprises decide this technology is not worth the lock-in risk? We assess Vo-Fi's highs and lows in its race to own enterprise telephony. Plus, see our real-world evaluation of three enterprise-class Vo-Fi handsets.
By
Frank Bulk
Dave Molta
and Jameson Blandford
/ Jan 30, 2007
IM Security Appliances: Coldhearted Worms More employees are communicating with coworkers, vendors, clients and customers over public IM,
leaving your enterprise vulnerable to IM-borne malware. But open doesn't have to mean insecure. We tested
three appliances that promise to help readers granularly manage IM access while making public IM more secure and logging transactions.
By
Mike DeMaria
/ Jan 30, 2007
Wi-Fi Phone Buyer's Guide: VoIP service providers Skype and Vonage have each partnered with hardware manufacturers to release cell-like phones that can use their services via Wi-Fi networks. Here's how to get started.
By Peter Jacobson
/ Jan 17, 2007
The Microsoft/Novell Deal: Has It Divided The Linux Community?: When Microsoft and Novell announced that they would work together, Linux enthusiasts were shocked. How has the agreement affected the open-source community, and can it recover?
By Jacqueline Emigh
/ Jan 23, 2007
Does OS X Shine Brighter Than Vista?: It's wrong to make the differences between Mac OS X and Windows Vista into a horserace -- each OS is most challenged by its own history, limitations, and possibilities.
By
David DeJean
/ Jan 19, 2007
Longhorn: Long on Security?: When Windows Server Longhorn moseys by, should you saddle up? We took Microsoft's next-generation server OS for a ride in our Real-World Labs to see whether Redmond is making good on its promise to better protect our networks.
By Tyler Lawton
/ Jan 12, 2007
Break Free of the Mouse : Alternatives to the conventional mouse pointer can relieve users' physical stress while building up a profitable new market.
By Lamont Wood
/ Jan 12, 2007
5 Disruptive Technologies To Watch In 2007: 2007 will be the year when a host of hot technologies which have been percolating around the mainstream rise high on the radar screens of CIOs and IT managers. We'll look at five of the more significant, including RFID, advanced graphics, and virtualization.
By
David Strom
/ Jan 1, 2007
Seven Trends for 2007: Kicking off the new year, we're going for seven trends that represent the kind of moving and shaking in business and IT that will have repercussions beyond just the next release. Forget the little stuff--we're talking tectonic shifts.
By
Doug Henschen
David Stodder
Penny Crosman
and Michael Mcclellan, Neal Mcwhorter, and David Patterson
/ Dec 13, 2006
How Important Is A Job Title Change?: Career expert Oreste "Rusty" D'Aversa says a career title change should be about the duties and skills you are responsible for and the progression of responsibility in the new role.
By
Rusty DAversa
/
Advice On Changing Career Tracks: Two tech professionals seek advice on how to prep a resume, and their professional development, to move into new IT career arenas.
By
Rusty DAversa
/
Survivor's Guide to 2007: Storage & Servers: Big Wheels, Slow Progress Many of the technologies we pointed to last year -- server virtualization, IP storage and blade servers -- are still evolving and continue to be important areas to watch in 2007. Meanwhile, virtual servers, quad-core systems and a host of other emerging technologies are coming to a data center near you.
By
Steven Hill / Dec 8, 2006
Survivor's Guide to 2007: Messaging & Collaboration: Keep Employees and Customers Talking Success in 2007's new world of user/community-driven content will involve increased maturity in corporate blogs, wikis, podcasts and Webcasts, and more experimentation with video as a sales and marketing tool. Plus keep watch for advances in enterprise e-mail, unified communications and VoIP adoption.
By
Mike DeMaria
/ Dec 8, 2006
The Survivor's Guide to 2007: In a Word: Collaboration! With small budget hikes forecasted for 2007, simply wringing more computing power out of packed data centers won't be enough. For the next wave of change, IT must take the lead in improving communications and making the very best use of resources throughout the organization. Read on as our experts analyze hot IT areas, from security to wireless to storage, and identify the business trends you need to watch in the coming year.
By
David Greenfield / Dec 11, 2006
Survivor's Guide to 2007: Network Infrastructure: The Networks Shifting Landscape Get ready to change gears in 2007. While consolidation was the watchword for 2006, 2007 will be all about differences. New and expensive technologies are stretching IT dollars, increasing management overhead and placing increased performance demands on networks.
By
Mike Fratto / Dec 11, 2006
Survivor's Guide to 2007: Security: Keep Corporate Data Safe! This year, security pros will finally get in the groove and refocus on security's primary task: Locking down your company's assets. To get there, however, you need a formidable arsenal. Here's your 2007 shopping list.
By
Don MacVittie / Dec 11, 2006
Survivor's Guide to 2007: Application Infrastructure: Agility Is the Key In 2007, expect the demands for fast delivery of aggregated information to heighten. Fortunately, the next 12 months will bring plenty of options to slim down and tone up by adopting technologies that truly live up to the claim, "out-of-the-box."
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Lori MacVittie / Dec 11, 2006
Survivor's Guide to 2007: Enterprise Applications: Reduce Costs -- But Still Keep Customers Happy? In the coming year, you'll hear plenty of experts going on about architecting "agile, competitive, strong-performing" apps that help your organization reduce costs internally, while maintaining customer satisfaction. That's easy to say, not so easy to implement. Here's how to make those new technologies walk the walk for your business.
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Lori MacVittie / Dec 11, 2006
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