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  Virtualization policy

  Virtualization platforms are available from a number of vendors, but it’s still critical to maintain your virtualization environment to avoid unnecessary resource consumption, out of-compliance systems or applications, data loss, security breaches, and other negative outcomes. This policy defines responsibilities for both end users and the IT department to ensure that the virtualized resources are ...

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  CXO Insider: How solid cloud infrastructure and strong digital roadmap helped SUEZ WTS adapt to COVID-19

  With over 10,000 employees and operations in more than 100 countries, SUEZ Water Technologies & Solutions already had a sizable remote workforce and field service team prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even so, the company needed to rapidly scale its digital capabilities when the virus outbreak triggered global shutdowns. In this exclusive CXO Insider interview, ...

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  CXO Insider: City of Memphis CIO explains how they fast tracked their digital transformation plans

  From facilitating remote work for thousands of employees to moving laptops around the city for students, tech leaders with the city of Memphis were forced to fast track smart city projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. TechRepublic speaks with Kimberly Bailey, CIO with the City of Memphis, about how city agencies accelerated their digital ...

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  Excel power user guide

  It’s easy to become an expert at Excel. This spreadsheet program, developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, is a powerful data visualization tool. Leveraging how to best use Excel will help you analyze and manage your data more efficiently. Inside this ebook from TechRepublic Premium, learn how to use Excel data validation ...

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  Software usage policy

  In order to maintain a consistent, predictable and supportable computing environment it is essential to establish a pre-defined set of software applications for use on workstations, laptops, mobile devices and servers. When employees install random or questionable software on their workstations or devices it can lead to clutter, malware infestations and lengthy support remediation. Company-approved ...

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  CXO Insider: How the COVID-19 pandemic helped Land O’ Lakes better connect rural America

  In this exclusive TechRepublic Premium CXO Insider interview, Kimberly Bailey, CIO with the City of Memphis, talks with TechRepublic’s Karen Roby talks with Marc Carlson, the CIO of Land O’ Lakes, about his company’s two day shift from in-person to remote work and why America’s farms need tech to survive.

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  Resource and data recovery policy

  Employees, data, and resources are three of the biggest assets in any organization. All employees should be familiar with the processes for recovering information if it becomes lost, inaccessible, or compromised. This policy provides guidelines for the recovery of data from company-owned or company-purchased resources, equipment, and/or services. From the policy: Summary Employees, data, and ...

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  MSP best practices: Network switch and router maintenance checklist

  Managed services providers (MSPs) often prioritize properly configuring and implementing client network switches and firewalls. However, regularly reviewing and updating such components is an equally important responsibility. It’s important to ensure clients understand the necessity of regularly auditing, updating, and creating new backups for network switches and routers, the need for scheduling the required service ...

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  The best Linux web-based admin GUIs for business

  If you’re a network or systems administrator, chances are pretty good that you’re tasked with managing a number of servers within your data center. Those servers can range in the services they offer from web, database, cloud, file sharing, user/directory management, printers, containers, virtual machines, and everything in between. When the machines hosting those services ...

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  Top cybersecurity threats and challenges of 2021

  In this TechRepublic Premium video, host Tonya Hall talks with a panel of security experts about the cybersecurity threats and challenges companies will face in 2021, particularly in the new normal of increased remote work brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. On the panel are Wendi Whitmore, VP of IBM X Force, Dr. Ronald S ...