Reason #17: Technology shouldn’t be leading your company anywhere. Technology should be supporting your company’s goals, not defining goals. Technology should be your accelerator, not your rudder.
The next time you’re at the local mall or office complex, keep an eye out for security guards. You’ll find there are more of them and they are working longer hours. Bad Economy Means More, Not Less, Security Needed One of my friends works in the corporate offices of an international security firm. (Think: mall [...]
Who installed your network’s switches and routers? Who installed your Oracle database? Who installed your Cisco firewall? Who installed your phone system? Who sets your passwords? Default Passwords Bring Security Problems If your network equipment, databases or servers are still using their default passwords, your entire business may be at risk. It is not uncommon [...]
Citrix Systems [...] unveiled a groundbreaking new version of Citrix® XenServer™ – the company’s enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform – that will be offered free of charge to any user for unlimited production deployment. (SOURCE: Citrix Systems) Full XenServer Hypervisor For Free Even For Commercial Use Welcome to the new software model: sell high quality software [...]
The latest version of the Windows™ OS for both desktops and servers are on their way from Microsoft™. As always this news is met with equal shares of excitement and trepidation. Every company has its share of missteps sprinkled in with its successes. Even Microsoft admits that Vista was not the runaway success that they [...]
Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization Overview Microsoft Hyper-V is a virtualized server computing environment using a technology that is part of Windows Server 2008. It’s the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology available as an integral feature of Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V enables server virtualization. It provides a simplified, reliable and optimized virtualized computing environment to improve the efficiency [...]
We all need help sometimes, especially when it comes to our networks, servers and desktop computers. If you have questions or headaches from your network, feel free to post a quick comment here and we’ll post back. Chances are, we’ve been there and can point you in the right direction. If not, we’ll tell you [...]
Business is heavily dependent on its computer systems. You need over 99% uptime guarantees from your IT Department. This is a major undertaking for any team, especially with good people being hard to find — or, at least in today’s economy, hard to afford. Most IT staffs implement a monitoring system of some sort or [...]
Yes, using Citrix XenDesktop to turn your Apple TV into a real computer seems a bit frivolous. That’s not the point. (But it is a pretty darn cool Apple TV hack.) Citrix XenDesktop Allows for Innovation Anytime, anywhere, anything is what you make of it. Citrix XenDesktop is the means to an end, not the [...]
