Top IT skills wanted for 2012

Tue, 04 October 2011

By Toni Bowers Nearly 29 percent of the 353 IT executives who were polled in Computerworld’s annual Forecast survey said they plan to increase IT staffing through next summer. (That’s up from 23% in the 2010 survey and 20% in the 2009 survey.) Here are the skills that the IT executives say they will be

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It’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday: September 2011

Thu, 15 September 2011

Takeaway: Justin James gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft’s September 2011 patches in your organization. This month is pretty mild in terms of recent patches. The interesting surprise this month was Microsoft accidentally making the security patch information known for a few hours the week before it

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Five Tips For Effective Backup And Recovery In Virtual Environments

Mon, 13 June 2011

Our Five Tips  Tip #1: Minimize the amount of data you protect You can reduce the amount of data you back up while ensuring 100 percent recovery by using technologies that filter out unchanged and deleted data. While tools that utilize VMware CBT (Changed Block Tracking) eliminate the backup of some unnecessary data, CBT does

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10 things you can do to conserve Internet bandwidth

Wed, 25 May 2011

As organizations move more and more services to the cloud, it is becoming increasingly important to make efficient use of the available Internet bandwidth. Here are a few techniques you can use to conserve Internet bandwidth in your own organization. 1: Block access to content-streaming Web sites If your organization allows employees to use the

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