Software


Symantec Releases Comprehensive Solution for High-Availability/Disaster Recovery Preparedness

Veritas CommandCentral Disaster Recovery Advisor delivers rich knowledge base of configuration risks

Survey Shows Disconnect Between Configuration Management Goals, Best Practices

Majority of IT operations use semi-automatic or manual processes to manage configuration settings

Windows 7 Will Have an XP Downgrade Option

Microsoft will permit Windows 7 Professional edition downgrades to Windows XP Professional

Double-Take Software Announces Workload Optimization Suite

IT managers can migrate, backup, and protect physical and virtual IT workloads

AmberPoint Introduces Business Transaction Safety Net

Business transaction manager traces, tracks transaction failures

SharePoint Designer Offered as Free Development Tool

Microsoft didn't want price to be a barrier to SharePoint users

HP Selling Cloud Assurance to Enterprises

Helps enterprise IT departments adopt and manage cloud-based services



Exchange Tool Tests Remote Connections

Online service enables testing of incoming e-mail traffic to Microsoft Exchange Server

MX-Sync Releases New Outlook/Exchange-to-SQL Synchronization Utility

Works with standard Outlook or Exchange folders (both public and private)

Microsoft Rolls Out Windows Embedded Services

Company announces new services capability, additional support for developers working on embedded systems

Tape’s Role in the Green Data Center

Long-standing technology is surprisingly efficient when it comes to “going green” with storage.

Stephen Swoyer

Careers: IT is Hiring, But Just Barely

Fully 83 percent of IT chiefs expect to maintain their staffing levels. Among those planning staff reductions, most cite IT budget cuts as the culprit.

Stephen Swoyer

Spammers Exploiting the Recession

Spammers are tweaking their messaging to better exploit recession-related fear, uncertainty, and doubt

Imagining Disaster Recovery

A little imagination can be a great thing when it comes to planning for a disaster. The disasters we might encounter as IT managers are no different.

Q&A: Security Breaches and Enterprise Culture

How an enterprise’s culture affects its IT security

Jon Toigo

Discovery Tools Fundamental to Data Management

Effective data management is an idea that has been ignored for far too long.

Stephen Swoyer

Big Iron Bucks a Trend

Far from transitioning away from Big Iron, customers seem to be doubling down

Despite Criticism, Microsoft Exec Defends Open Source Progress

Microsoft official argues company has made significant progress while defending its right to enforce patents

Modernization: It's All about the Business

Why the common approach to IT modernization will fail in today's economy