Some people are just plain hard to get along with. But you don't have to let them get under your skin. Calvin Sun offers advice for surviving your encounters with vexing customers and colleagues.

Going to the cloud might make a lot of sense for your organization -- but only if you choose a secure, reliable data center that can handle your needs. Erik Eckel runs through 10 essential criteria for data center evaluation.

Using the Network Time Protocol will ensure that precise time syncs exist on your Linux and Windows Server, crucial if you want your Linux machine to connect to a Windows domain.

Backing up your files is a very important and very often neglected measure to save yourself the frustration of lost data. Overcome that neglectful tendency, and protect your data from accidental loss with a simple rsync script.

Rick Vanover recently profiled two disk-wiping solutions and detailed how they work with a series of screenshots. Which tools would you like to know more about?

When choosing a RAID level for a new array, there are a number of important points that you need to take into consideration. Scott Lowe outlines these points.

Microsoft System Center licensing can be quite complex, especially as you add multiple server products to the mix. Scott Lowe helps you make sense of the convoluted System Center licensing.

Vincent Danen goes over the basics of using the standard dd tool to back up and copy partitions and drives.

When it comes to RAID 60, Scott Lowe advises IT pros not to have a one-size-fits-all mentality. He explains the potential benefits and downsides of using RAID 60.

RAID 50 is an often overlooked RAID level that can bridge the gap when it comes to choosing between RAID 5, RAID 6, and RAID 10. Scott Lowe explains why RAID 50 is his favorite RAID level.

A key Windows maintenance chore involves determining what data is consuming resources. Here are a couple of scripts that make it easy to get that critical file information.

Remote desktop is the de facto administration tool, but sometimes it stops accepting connections. Read this tip to learn how to remotely enable or disable remote desktop.

RAID selection can be a tough choice, especially when budgets are tight. Learn why RAID 10 might be a better choice than RAID 6 even though it's more expensive.

Why isn't cloud computing being adopted as quickly or as pervasively as we would expect? Marc Schiller says it's about fear, but not the kind of fear you think.

You can avoid problems and gain peak efficiencies by following certain practices when upgrading a server. Erik Eckel offers this field-tested list.