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Help Desk Replacement Cuts Costs By $100,000
April 19, 2012 09:00 AM
Customer service is a key watchword in business today. With a system upgrade looming on the horizon, Optimal Payments decided to look for a more efficient way to service its customers than its existing Remedy help-desk solution from BMC Software. After the payment software and service supplier went out to the marketplace in search of alternatives, it purchased a solution--Zoho’s ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus--that reduced its operating costs by $100,000 annually.EMC Unveils More Flexible IT Bundling
April 12, 2012 09:00 AM
These days, companies basically have two options for bringing new information technology into their data centers. They can acquire all the servers, storage, networking and software from different vendors, try to put it all together and make it work, or they can buy one big appliance that’s simpler to set up but is of a fixed configuration. EMC is offering a third option that combines the best attributes of the previous options, which it calls VSPEX.The Mess That Is Android: A Google-Powered Object Lesson
April 09, 2012 01:30 PM
Google's Android is a great OS, but it has significant problems that must be addressed before it becomes irrelevant. Here are 10 of them.Google, HP Raise Data-Center PUE Bar
April 06, 2012 09:00 AM
Running rows and rows of servers, storage appliances and networking equipment makes the electric bill a data center receives at the end of each month a whopper. That’s why data-center operators are constantly working on ways to improve energy efficiency. A couple of tech companies in Silicon Valley have reported considerable progress in improving energy efficiency, and a national organization shows the average energy efficiency also improving, though some data-center operators are having more success than others.Virtualization: Microsoft Picks Up Momentum, VMware Lags, Citrix Stumbles
April 06, 2012 09:00 AM
An increasing move to second sourcing came as a particular surprise to Gartner in its list of 'Top Five Server Virtualization Trends, 2012', says Tom Bittman, a vice president and analyst with Gartner Research.Virsto’s Storage Hypervisor Enables Storage to Play Nicely with Server Virtualization
April 05, 2012 09:00 AM
On the whole, server virtualization has been a blessing due to physical machine to logical machine consolidation that leads to better system and CPU utilization and attendant improved IT cost economics. But servers are only part of broader interlocked “systems” of hardware components (including networks and storage) and software (including operating systems and applications) that must work in harmony together. And any change in one component (in this case, servers) may cause complications or problems (such as performance and capacity utilization) with another component (in this case, storage). This is yet another instance of the law of unintended consequences. However, Virsto’s chosen role is to repeal that instance of the law through the use of its storage hypervisor.Citrix Gives CloudStack To The Apache Software Foundation
April 03, 2012 09:05 AM
Less than a year after acquiring Cloud.com, Citrix is sending CloudStack, the open-source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines as a highly available, scalable cloud computing platform, to the Apache Software Foundation Incubation program, joining such as OpenOffice and Wave, which was spun out from Google. Citrix will continue to sell and support a commercial CloudStack offering, and there is no change in pricing or support. Last year's cloud announcement, Project Olympus, the company's commercial implementation of OpenStack, is at an end. This marks another twisting turn in Citrix' path in cloud software.Apple Continues Enterprise Blitz-Crawl
April 02, 2012 09:00 AM
Thanks to the rising popularity of the iPad, Apple’s influence within the enterprise is growing, but not with rocketing speed as one might suspect. Still, the advantage appears to be on Apple’s side, even if corporate IT managers view the vendor’s hardware as an afterthought.How To Set Up A Certificate Authority In 10 Minutes
March 28, 2012 04:10 PM
Having a company owned certificate authority makes managing your network devices simpler and more secure. There is nothing inherently wrong with self-signed certs, but you can do better. You can build a CA issue your first certificate in about 10 minutes. Here is how to do it.Synchronizing Custom Dictionaries With The Cloud
March 27, 2012 10:30 AM
Everyone I know who writes about technology has developed an extensive custom dictionary file for Microsoft Office. Sometimes it seems every third word I write is a company, product name or some piece of tech jargon that Word doesn't recognize. Since I work on several different computers, I use SugarSync to keep my custom dictionary up to date.« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next Page »
