Software automation is used for many business and IT processes, depending on industry vertical and individual company business and IT needs. These guidelines from TechRepublic Premium provide general categories of consideration that should be taken into account as part of your due diligence during the formation of a software automation policy. From the guidelines: WHO ...

The purpose of this policy from TechRepublic Premium is to provide guidelines for the proper use of peer-to-peer file sharing. It includes an authorization form for approval of P2P file transmission, which sets the conditions and parameters in which this data exchange must occur. From the policy: P2P applications should only be used to send ...

Phone interviews can save time and speed up the hiring process. This cheat sheet will make it easy to ask both general and job-specific questions, allowing you to compare candidates for the computer bench technician job systematically. Questions from the cheat sheet: What are your favorite software utilities for performing computer bench work? How much ...

Life lessons stick with you. The basics taught in Little League are practiced by Major League Baseball stars. Fundamentals have staying power because they work. So the next time you’re recruited to take over a new site, make a list of all the location’s equipment and take notes with some healthy skepticism, as unfamiliar systems ...

Phone interviews can save time and speed up the hiring process. This cheat sheet will make it easy to ask both general and job-specific questions, allowing you to compare candidates for the field/systems engineer job systematically. Questions from the cheat sheet: In what type of corporate culture do you thrive best and why? Have you ...

The IT department must regularly perform maintenance, upgrades and other service on organizational servers, systems and networks either for upkeep or restorative purposes. This work often results in either intentional or unintentional downtime. This policy from TechRepublic Premium describes how the organization should plan for and announce scheduled server, system and network downtime to specify ...

Whether you work for a company completely committed to the cloud, relying exclusively on a physical data center or utilizing a hybrid of the two, supporting the business through proper setups and maintenance makes server know-how even more critical. This checklist from TechRepublic Premium is intended to provide management guidelines and solutions to many of ...

Whether you work from home occasionally for your standard full-time salaried job or work from home exclusively as a member of the growing gig economy, establishing a reliable, fast and secure connection to the wider universe of interconnected networks is vital to your success. For home offices, the basic network router is the primary hardware ...

Virtualization allows for applications, operating systems and networks to be operated in a logical ‘sandbox,’ reducing the need for physical hardware. The host platform for virtualized resources can be located on-premises or provided by a cloud services operator, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for implementing ...

Properly managed, planned systems outages need not prove contentious or disruptive. With a little foresight, even scheduled service interruptions can be coordinated in ways that catch no one by surprise and minimize productivity issues. Check out the accompanying checklist from TechRepublic Premium to learn more about coordinating scheduled systems outages. From the checklist: CREATE A ...

It’s important to maintain accurate infrastructure inventories to assist secure and effective network administration. A checklist, like the accompanying file from TechRepublic Premium, is an easy and efficient way to begin the process of maintaining accurate infrastructure inventories. From the checklist: DON’T FORGET ABOUT FORGOTTEN SYSTEMS It’s common for technical network audits to surface forgotten ...

Maximum uptime is often a priority goal for company systems and services in today’s 24/7 year-round society. With that objective in mind, a comprehensive system and service monitoring strategy is an essential component of any technological infrastructure to achieve organizational success. The objective of this policy from TechRepublic Premium is to define what systems and ...

Regardless of whether a new computer is a desktop, a laptop or a convertible tablet, the same actions must be repeated each time a user receives a new machine. Migration tasks range from recording computer network settings to transferring documents, bookmarks and old email. Depending upon the level of centralized automation and third-party tools employed, ...

Like a Rubik’s Cube, it is possible to solve the branch networking puzzle with the help of this guide from TechRepublic Premium. From the guide: WHY SO COMPLICATED? When you really stop and think about it, a branch office is really nothing more than an extension of your existing network. If that is true, then ...

While job positions related to data collection, manipulation and analysis are extremely important to the modern big data business environment, few of those employees could do their jobs, despite their talent level, without a properly running and efficient communications network. The nuts and bolts of configuration and the heavy lifting of management for any business ...