Scott Lowe

With huge cloud players building their own stripped-down servers on a massive scale, midsize data centers could reap benefits from the altered server landscape.

Scott Lowe walks you through some of the first tasks administrators perform when deploying a new Windows server on the network. Here’s how it looks on Windows Server 2012.

Policies can help keep an organization running smoothly — but only if they’re clearly defined, carefully written, and have a legitimate purpose.

You don’t have to live with a Windows 7 machine that’s becoming unbearably slow. Here are 10 basic steps that will optimize system performance.

Scott Lowe answers a TR member’s question about the wisdom of connecting multiple hosts to a single iSCSI array.

If you evaluate your organization’s need for certain Windows 7 services, you may find that a number of them can be safely disabled.

Scott Lowe answers some basic questions about iSCSI from TechRepublic readers.

Scott Lowe breaks down the differences in reliability and performance between SAS, Near-Line SAS, and SATA drives.

If you aren’t careful about protecting your reputation, you may find yourself doing damage control for the rest of your career.

Improperly installed cabling can cripple network performance, create maintenance headaches, and lead to hidden costs. Here’s where things can go wrong.

Scott Lowe offers a quick tutorial on how to remove or alter the text from the signature line on your iPhone or Android device.

Scott Lowe drills down on the network-related metrics you can see in the Microsoft Windows Resource Monitor tool.