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Data Centers

Build a high-capacity backup solution on a limited budget

One IT team, when faced with high-priced options from vendors, decided to develop its own high-speed backup network. Here's how they did it.

CXO

Use this weighting system to make performance reviews more meaningful

The typical review standards are too general to help employees understand their performance and set meaningful goals. Give them a better idea of where they stand with this weighted appraisal system.

Software

Set up a trend reporting system for your IT organization

Faced with a weak reporting system in his IT organization, this manager developed his own. Follow his guidelines to streamline reporting in your own organization.

CXO

How to systematically prioritize your support calls

A member tells how to prioritize help desk tickets with the concepts used in banking for automating the credit approval process. These tips could help you free up technicians and improve help desk response time for users.

Banking

Should you purchase your equipment or lease it?

A good IT manager looks for ways to save money on equipment without jeopardizing functionality. An experienced IT manager offers advice on the pros and cons of leasing vs. purchasing hardware.

CXO

How to reduce hardware costs while retaining functionality

An IT manager outlines the costs involved in ownership of equipment--including the cost to acquire it, maintain it, and retire it--and offers strategies for saving money.

PURPOSE A large segment of internal and external modern business now takes place on computers, tablets and other mobile devices. The information technology infrastructure that has sprung up around that business can be daunting in its scope. This Hiring Kit from TechRepublic Premium provides an adjustable framework your business can use to find, recruit and ...

PURPOSE This grant writing guide from TechRepublic Premium will help you identify a grant that fits your idea, build a team to help you compile a proposal, and set a timeline to meet the application deadline. From the guide: BEFORE YOU START This list of steps will help the grant writing process go more smoothly. ...

PURPOSE These guidelines from TechRepublic Premium will help you define the necessary ingredients of a security policy and assist in its proper construction. They’re designed to work hand in hand with the subjective knowledge you have of your company, environment and employees. Using this information, your business can establish new policies or elaborate on those ...

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Build a high-capacity backup solution on a limited budget

Use this weighting system to make performance reviews more meaningful

Set up a trend reporting system for your IT organization

How to systematically prioritize your support calls

Should you purchase your equipment or lease it?

How to reduce hardware costs while retaining functionality

Hiring kit: Business information analyst

Grant writing guide

Guidelines for building security policies

Hiring kit: Artificial intelligence architect