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Citrix Adds IT Management to GoTo Line February 24, 2010 
Citrix Online, a division of Citrix Systems, announced on Wednesday the acquisition of Paglo, a remote support service provider. The purchase signals Citrix Online's entrance into the IT management sector. Citrix Online has relaunched the Paglo service as GoToManage. That service is an integrated Web-based platform for monitoring, controlling and supporting attended or unattended IT infrastructure anywhere.
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Can't We All Just Get Along? Post-Merger IT Integration February 04, 2010 
Enterprises that have merged with or acquired the systems and assets of another company know how difficult it is to combine disparate systems -- platforms, databases and software solutions -- with its existing infrastructure. Mergers can be very disruptive, especially if the companies have standardized on differing platforms, protocols and encryption methods.
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Plan Ahead to Prevent Maintenance Window Pain February 03, 2010 
System administrators are well aware of the pain associated with maintenance windows. This effort is usually taking place off-hours and requires challenging coordination between different activities and often different departmental personnel. Maintenance windows are very important to obtain an updated infrastructure and to mitigate risks of an unplanned outage.
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The Great Mainframe Shakeout January 31, 2010 
A growing number of technical and economic incentives are mounting that make a strong case for modernizing and transforming enterprise mainframe applications -- and the aging infrastructure that support them. IT budget planners are using the strident economic environment to force a harder look at alternatives to inflexible and hard-to-manage legacy systems.
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The 5 Best-Kept SharePoint Management Secrets January 27, 2010 
Microsoft SharePoint Server is an incredibly versatile tool for setting up portals and Web sites that facilitate communication and collaboration within a company, between companies, and with Internet users at large. This versatility and the ability of SharePoint to boost productivity has made it the fastest-growing product in the history of Microsoft.
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Why Is Internet Explorer 6 Still Hanging Around? January 20, 2010 
Microsoft has said it will release a patch on Thursday to fix the Internet Explorer 6 flaw that hackers used recently to attack Google and other large companies. The attacks have triggered a slugfest between Google and the Chinese government. While the flaw can also be exploited in Internet Explorer 7 and 8, most of the attacks so far have been against IE6 on Windows XP.
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When It Comes to Server Migration, You Can Learn a Lot From a Twit January 18, 2010 
OK folks, Twitter may be a fad, but it is also a wealth of information into real people's problems, and I don't think it is going away anytime soon. In fact Google and Yahoo announced recently that they are going to begin crawling tweets, and they will appear in search queries. So yes, I am a fellow "twit," and proudly so, because I know how to use it to find the information that I am looking for.
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The Elasticity of the Cloud January 17, 2010 
Today's podcast discussion focuses on the economic benefits of cloud computing -- of how to use cloud-computing models and methods to control IT cost by better supporting application workloads. As we've been looking at cloud computing over the past several years, a long transition is under way, of moving from traditional IT and architectural method to this notion of cloud.
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Data Center Migration: Easy as Changing the Engine Mid-Flight January 10, 2010 
The crucial migration phase when moving or modernizing data centers can make or break the success of these complex undertakings. Much planning and expensive effort goes into building new data centers, or in conducting major improvements to existing ones. But too often there's short shrift in the actual "throwing of the switch" -- in the moving and migrating of existing applications and data.
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Putting the Data Center on an Energy Diet December 20, 2009 
Producing meaningful, long-term energy savings in IT operations depends on a strategic planning and execution process. The goal is to seek out long-term gains from prudent, short-term investments, whenever possible. It makes little sense to invest piecemeal in areas that offer poor returns, when a careful cost-benefit analysis for each specific enterprise can identify the true wellsprings of IT energy conservation.
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Web Site Performance: When Seconds Count December 17, 2009 
It is time to talk about the changing role of Web sites in business. They are no longer simply online calling cards and repositories of marketing collateral. They've become the heartbeat of the organization, the public face, the online portal for employee and partner access.
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Save Yourself a Boatload of Hassle: Document December 15, 2009 
Remember the "Scantron" sheets that you had to fill out in school for taking standardized tests -- you know, the ones where you had to fill in the circle with a No. 2 pencil to mark your answer? Now imagine you're watching someone take a standardized math test -- you watch as they spend 15 minutes calculating the answer to a complicated problem.
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Transforming the Data Center? Better Rethink the Network December 13, 2009 
Most enterprise networks are the result of a patchwork effect of bringing in equipment as needed over the years to fight the fire of the day, with little emphasis on strategy and the anticipation of future requirements. That's why it's necessary to reevaluate network architectures in light of newer and evolving IT demands and overall moves to next-generation data centers.
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Top 4 Reasons CISOs and CTOs Fear the Cloud December 09, 2009 
For years, IT departments have had full control over their own infrastructure -- for better and worse -- and are naturally uncomfortable with anything that prevents them from being the sole resource for their own infrastructure. They have been trained to maintain tight control because of the complexity of their own environment.
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United We Stand: The Power of Aggregated Broadband December 03, 2009 
Bandwidth aggregation products, such as WAN link controllers, enable a business to purchase multiple low-cost network connections and combine them to give it the total bandwidth required. The customer can then easily and flexibly add bandwidth as the organization's Internet usage increases. As an organization grows, so does the number of employees, partners and customers that use its network.
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5 Highly Avoidable Network Management Bungles November 30, 2009 
Ask any IT organization to identify the No. 1 cause of network performance problems, and they'll probably point to high-profile events: denial-of-service attacks, computer viruses, fiber cuts, power outages or hardware failures. However, studies show that more than two-thirds of network issues are actually tied to a simple everyday activity: The ungoverned process of IT staff making network configuration changes.
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