Daniel Dern
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Reading PDFs More Safely -- Sadly, A Good Idea
Dec 01, 2010Invincea's Document Protection, for safely opening, reading and printing PDFs, like its Web Protection, wraps the core program in a virtual machine to keep threats from touching the system.
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VMware Go Pro Cloud Tool Simplifies Trying Virtualization
Oct 18, 2010Getting started with server virtualizing can be daunting, but VMware's new Go Pro -- free until the official launch -- that lets you try cranking up a hypervisor and some virtual machines.
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LogMeIn Lets IT Remotely Manage Multiple PCs In Batches
Oct 15, 2010LogMeIn's new One2Many feature for its LogMeIn Central web-based management console lets IT admins do admin tasks to local or remote computers running LogMeIn Pro in bunches rather than one-at-a-time.
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The Cost of IT Availability, Versus Recovery Costs
Oct 05, 2010Provisioning your company's IT to be available typically has a higher purchase price than for recovery -- but it's likely to be a better deal, and is getting less expensive, too.
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Anti Virus Announcements May Not Be Catchy
Oct 01, 2010It's getting hard to know which to believe less -- anti-virus and other anti-threat software, or some of the announcements touting them, based on inspecting this representative recent example by AVG.
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My Wish List For Online Backup, Computing Solutions
Sep 27, 2010Current cloud and web backup and continuity could be even more useful, here's my shopping list for mashups, combos and other provisioning against IT mishaps.
Research & Reports
SMEs and the Cloud: How Much Is Too Much?
This exclusive downloadable research report examines how outsourcing certain IT functions to a service provider can pay off for small and midsize businesses, even more than for large enterprises. But go too far into the cloud, and you may suffer in terms of maintaining agility and responsiveness to market forces.
Secure Design on a Dime: Our Top 5 Best Practices for SMEs
This exclusive downloadable research report details the security tools that small shops need, at a minimum, to prepare for the increasingly complex security and compliance environment that exists today and the top 5 ways growing businesses can stretch their IT budgets.
Current SMB Issue
- Cloud Beyond SaaS: SMBs have saved big buying software on a subscription model. Here's how to determine if infrastructure services can pay off, too.
- 1,000 Servers, Zero Hardware: One startup's experience with infrastructure-as-a-service shows how the numbers stack up for IaaS vs. internal IT.
- And much more!
SMB Whitepapers
- Building a Business-Ready Mobile Infrastructure
- Shared Storage for SMB Server Bundles
- No Compromise, Cost Effective, VMware Storage for the SMB
- Three unique technologies provide users with a truly modern storage experience
- Rethinking Backup and Recovery: Disk vs. Tape
- Server Room Solutions: How small to midsize IT businesses can make their IT budgets appear larger than they are
- Top Three Microsoft Exchange Concerns and EMC Solutions
