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    77 Features for Windows 7 that Every IT Professional Should Know About

    April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Windows 7 builds on Windows Vista's positives and eliminates many of the negatives. It adds new functionality, is less resource-hungry, and starts and shuts down noticeably faster. Whether you're...

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    Windows 7 Troubleshooting Tips

    October 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Your company has finally migrated to Windows 7. Congratulations! And now you have your first support call. This Microsoft white paper will tell you all you need to know about the new...

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    Basics of IP Address Subnetting

    February 20, 2012, 12:00am PST

    IP Address Subnetting is a complicated topic that can be confusing for many IT professionals. While you may be using one of the free subnet calculators available on the internet, knowing the...

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    The TCP/IP and OSI Models

    March 9, 2011, 12:00am PST

    TCP/IP and OSI are two well-known sets of communication protocols that have similarities and differences. This white paper discusses the history of each model, along with the characteristics and...

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    Seven Security Myths of Windows 7

    May 10, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Network security is everyone's concern, and this applies to computer security as well. Many security breaches occur due to user ignorance of basic security principles, not malicious intent....

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    15 Top Paying Certifications for 2013

    January 14, 2013, 12:00am PST

    Having earned an IT certification, many individuals think they are automatically entitled to a huge raise. The truth is that several factors, including geography, industry, experience, and yes,...

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    2013 IT Skills & Salary Report

    March 8, 2013, 12:00am PST

    The results are in and analysis is complete from our sixth annual IT Skills and Salary Survey. This was our first in partnership with Windows IT Pro and our largest survey ever. In fact, this...

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    Learning How To Learn Hadoop

    January 11, 2013, 12:00am PST

    Learning how to program and develop for the Hadoop platform can lead to lucrative new career opportunities in Big Data. But like the problems it solves, the Hadoop framework can be quite complex...

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    The Value of ITIL® Certification

    January 10, 2013, 12:00am PST

    The professional certification industry has grown significantly in conjunction with increased growth of various aspects of the information technology field. The Information Technology...

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    Why ITIL® Is Important

    March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    This paper discuss several concepts and techniques that ITIL promotes, including ensuring accountability, defining and enforcing boundaries, and conducting consistent and predictable activities in...

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    802.1X Explained

    October 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    BYOD (Bring your own Device) is the term we have tried to put in the furthest, darkest place in our mind. Why do we react this way? The answer is that change scares us. Today, we are going to...

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    Virtualization 101

    January 26, 2012, 12:00am PST

    This white paper defines virtualization and focuses on how certain trends, such as server virtualization, are changing the datacenter. We'll look at what makes virtualization so compelling to...

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    Demystifying VLAN Trunk Protocol

    December 19, 2012, 12:00am PST

    Of the many protocols that Cisco has created over the years, one of the most feared and often misunderstood is VTP, or Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) Trunk Protocol. The original intention was...

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    Change Is Constant: PMBOK Guide® 5th Edition

    January 4, 2013, 12:00am PST

    On December 31, 2012 the fifth edition of the PMBOK Guide® was released and once again the profession of project management moved forward. As we wrap up the current four-year review cycle and...

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    Sysinternals: Free Windows Server 2008 Utilities You Should Know About

    October 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT

    Several years ago, Microsoft bought Sysinternals and, well, "internalized" it. The good news is that many of the old tools, as well as some updates and new tools, are still available. If you don't...

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    Building a Cisco Certification Lab

    September 25, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Building a flexible lab environment is an essential and critical part of any certification study environment. The first step, either the CCENT or CCNA, requires an environment that is complete...

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    Mind the Gap: What is an ITIL® Gap Analysis?

    March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Organizations adopting ITIL best practices almost always ask, "Where do I begin?". The answer is a gap analysis. ITIL describes a gap analysis as a means of identifying areas where an organization...

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    Five Secrets for Successfully Virtualizing Desktops

    April 4, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    These five "secrets" to virtulizaing desktops will greatly increase the chance of a successfully VDI implementation. It is very important to plan for this; to balance the hardware environment to...

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    Top Eight Features of Windows 8 Client

    May 1, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Windows 8 is still Longhorn (albeit "Longhorn point two"), and when you find your way to Windows Explorer, the Registry Editor, the various control panels, and administrative tools, you will be in...

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    10 Essential Security Policies

    May 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT

    Every organization needs a corporate security policy to firmly establish guidelines that will keep the company's resources and knowledge safe. This white paper discusses ten such guidelines that...

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    Network Management: The Foundation for Troubleshooting

    February 13, 2013, 12:00am PST

    In many areas of human experience, there is a substantial variance between theoretical concepts and applied practice; the same general principle applies to the world of computer networking. No...

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    Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: Free Virtualization without a Server Operating System

    February 22, 2011, 12:00am PST

    Virtualization is a hot topic, with a number of techniques, tools, and technologies available. Some of the benefits of virtualization include hardware cost savings, role separation, configuration...

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    Project Management: Communication is the Key to Management and Leadership

    August 9, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Project managers lead groups of people or teams, share a vision with them, control and direct project activities, and communicate with their teams and with other stakeholders, ensuring the...

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    In the Trenches: Eight Tips-n-Tricks For Microsoft

    September 28, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Have you ever scratched your head and wondered why that group policy setting hasn't taken? Learn the best ways to deploy and troubleshoot Group Policies in your environment. Through eight...

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    Network Performance Monitoring

    October 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Almost all networks have plenty of network monitors. When something goes wrong, the help desk or the NOC (Network Operating Center) will get a few too many spontaneous alerts from users. That...

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    12 Steps to Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Success

    April 16, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    IT departments have multiple opportunities and challenges as a result of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) invasion. The most common opportunity is to reinforce enterprise network security from...

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    Building a Home Lab for VMware vSphere5

    May 23, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    I often get asked by my students how to setup a home lab for study after class, and the result is this white paper. This paper is broken down into three major sections: the hardware required, the...

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    10 Current Security Threats for Individuals

    October 11, 2011, 12:00am PDT

    We now live in a world where new threats are poised to cause us harm in ways most of us never dreamed possible. The convenience and benefits of Internet access, always-on connectivity, and mobile...

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    Fundamentals of SCSI and iSCSI

    July 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT

    SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface), which is present in all personal, defines an initiator/target client/server relationship that includes addresses, commands, and specified operations. The...

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    Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Overview

    November 3, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) is defined as "a mechanism in high-performance telecommunications networks that direct and carried data from one network node to the next, making it easy to...

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    Ten Rules of RIPv2

    January 24, 2012, 12:00am PST

    Over the years, the need for RIP has declined as IP-based networks evolve into more complex topologies. However, there is still a valid use for RIP, especially with the added features found in...

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    Network+ 2011 Exam N10-005 Updates

    March 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    On December 1, 2011, CompTIA released the latest Network+ exam, N10-005, that will replace the old N10-004 exam on August 1, 2012. The Network+ exam focuses on skills and knowledge of a general...

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    Five Secrets for Successfully Virtualizing a Data Center

    April 4, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Here are some secrets, tips, and tricks for virtualizing your datacenter. We want to introduce some best practices for virtualization, while not being too biased towards one virtualization vendor...

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    CompTIA: Updates to A+ Certification Exams

    January 4, 2013, 12:00am PST

    Discover the differences between the 700 Series and 800 Series exams for the CompTIA (vendor neutral) A+ certification. Explore the test format and content from a bird's eye view, as well as some...

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    Virtualization: Myths vs. Facts

    March 5, 2012, 12:00am PST

    Examine fifteen common myths surrounding virtualization, including many that prevent IT administrators (or their bosses) from getting the maximum value from virtualization. This paper is designed...

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    The Top 10 Reasons all IT Professionals Should Learn Project Management

    May 29, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Do your IT projects seem to be working out as you had planned? Do you have a plan? Could it be that there might just be a better way? A better approach, a different method, something that's been...

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    The Network Manager Checklist for Cloud

    December 20, 2011, 12:00am PST

    According to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing...

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    Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT)

    October 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT

    It's common today to use private addressing within an Autonomous System (AS), a collection of routers and subnets under a common administrative domain. The problem is that per RFC 1918 (Address...

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    Windows 8 Reality

    April 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Windows 8 is a Tablet OS first and foremost. Microsoft is designing Windows 8 to run on any type of form-factor, but its roots will be the slate or tablet style of interface. Personally, I know it...

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    Seven Tips for Troubleshooting VMware vSphere5

    May 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT

    Here are seven tips for working with vSphere, including: Logging in via Command Line, dealing with connection problems using ssh to an ESXi host; network performance issues; possible storage...

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