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It's Microsoft Patch Tuesday: May 2013

May 14, 2013 12:57pm PDT

Deb Shinder gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's May 2013 patches in your organization.

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Cloud-service contracts and data protection: Unintended consequences

May 13, 2013 11:52am PDT

There are things your cloud-service (Facebook, Amazon, Google, Dropbox, etc.) contracts aren't telling you. Michael P. Kassner interviews an attorney concerned about what's not being said.

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Do modern operating systems conflict with enterprise applications?

May 13, 2013 5:30am PDT

There is no shortage of moving targets in the data center. IT pro Rick Vanover shares opinions related to enterprise applications and the role of the operating system today.

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Poll: BlackBerry Enterprise Server for BYOD

May 10, 2013 12:58pm PDT

Take our poll and let us know if you were aware that BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) can now manage Android and iOS devices as part of BYOD.

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The modular server approach for small organizations

May 8, 2013 5:30am PDT

There are no shortage of ways to design infrastructure to solve a specific problem. One popular new trend is the modular server, as Rick Vanover explains.

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Hyper-V Recovery Manager on Windows Azure: Game changer in DR architecture

May 7, 2013 6:00am PDT

HVRM is a hybrid service that leverages the Azure public cloud and allows you to manage the replication of your primary data center to your disaster recovery (DR) site.

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Security tips for application developers

May 6, 2013 12:45pm PDT

This post was originally published in the Software Engineering Blog in July 2012. WhiteHat Security recently published its 2012 Website Statistics Report (PDF), which gives a broad view of the...

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PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform: a storage solution worth researching

May 6, 2013 3:54am PDT

Discover why this VMware vExpert is so excited about startup PernixData's Flash Virtualization Platform, which is currently available as a public beta.

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SMB 21st century data center: VCE Vblock System 100

April 29, 2013 1:27pm PDT

Watch this demo of VCE's Vblock System 100, which is a converged infrastructure solution geared toward the SMB market.

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Connect the Thunderbird email client to your Exchange server

April 26, 2013 8:00am PDT

Looking for an Outlook replacement? If so, try using Thunderbird with the ExQuilla addon to get an email client connected with an Exchange 2007 or 2010 server.

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Hunting down the mainframe unicorn

April 24, 2013 1:50am PDT

Mainframes are still an essential part of the enterprise computing infrastructure, but staff with the skills can be hard to find - here's how one company solved the puzzle.

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KeyBox makes controlling your servers easier

April 19, 2013 6:00am PDT

Convenient, browser-based management of remote servers is possible with a free open source tool called KeyBox. Marco Fioretti explains how to install and use it.

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Long-term trends in development methodologies

April 18, 2013 3:59pm PDT

Agile techniques, user feedback incorporated into the development process, and the cloud are three trends that warrant your attention.

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10 things you should know about microservers

April 18, 2013 10:01am PDT

Why waste energy, space, and money on a high-end server when a low-cost microserver can handle the job? Here's a look at how microservers can benefit the data center.

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Security mysteries: The case of the cloudy data

April 17, 2013 8:29am PDT

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital.

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Four solutions to managing open source server software

April 16, 2013 12:41pm PDT

Setting up servers in the cloud is easy, but securely installing and configuring the software isn't. Here are some tools that can help.

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Five apps for better data center management

April 16, 2013 12:37pm PDT

Five data center management apps that span the spectrum of potential tools and reports.

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10 benefits of virtualization in the data center

April 10, 2013 10:42am PDT

Data center virtualization can reduce your costs on facilities, power, cooling, and hardware, simplify administration and maintenance, and give you a greener IT profile.