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C.B.Learning Debuts Official Microsoft Online Learning : Managed, Simple, Cost-effective

Desire Athow — Wed, 02 Jul 2008

As an official provider of Microsoft Online Learning, C.B.Learning unveils the next generation of IT skills training. Discover the simple route to training success. Sign up for a free Microsoft course today

ITIL and CMDB Synergy : Enhanced Service Management

Ken Turbitt — Fri, 25 Apr 2008

This paper provides an overview of the value a CMDB can bring to both IT and the business, and describes how a CMDB can work in harmony with ITIL best practices to enhance Service Management.

Manage IT from a Business Perspective: Latest Best Practices from ITIL

Ken Turbitt — Wed, 23 Apr 2008

This Whitepaper explores the intricacies of ITIL and explains how to Integrate and Automate Best Practices from the Latest ITIL Book

CMDB, the Cornerstone of ITIL-based Integrated Service Support

Ken Turbitt — Tue, 22 Apr 2008

A CMDB, when used in support of ITIL best practices, is the cornerstone of IT Service Support, providing a centralized view of IT data that is essential to delivering consistent, reliable, effective, and efficient service to your business customers

Streamlining service request processes : A Key to Business Success

Ken Turbitt — Mon, 21 Apr 2008

A Whitepaper that will allow you to get the best out of your employees and your company and enable services to be delivered fast, efficiently and cheaper.

Supercharge your IT Business Value through BSM

Ken Turbitt — Fri, 18 Apr 2008

The key to maximizing the value of IT is to optimize your IT processes based on a business-aware foundation. Business Service Management (BSM) is the most effective approach for doing just that

Understand the ITIL code and expose its secrets

Ken Turbitt — Thu, 17 Apr 2008

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) is the most widely adopted best-practice IT framework for service management

Can You Really Get ITIL Out of the Box?

Ken Turbitt — Wed, 09 Apr 2008

You don’t have to be skeptic of the ITIL implementation promises. This paper examines the people, processes, and technology issues associated with getting ITIL up and running in your organization

Top 7 Microsoft Exchange Disaster Recovery Tips

Desire Athow — Tue, 01 Apr 2008

Regardless of whether your Exchange organisation is large or small, losing email services has a big impact on your business

Unified Communications : Are you Ready?

Desire Athow — Tue, 19 Feb 2008

In this white paper you’ll learn how two of the most respected industry analysts define unified communications and why organizations are considering its use to improve business operations.

Online Social Networking : The Employer's Dilemma

Desire Athow — Mon, 11 Feb 2008

A white paper which considers how relevant UK legislation and employers' policies impact on the use of social networking websites

Application Virtualisation : An Application for the 21st Century

Ben Chai — Mon, 11 Feb 2008

In decoupling applications from the desktop operating system to run independently from the main OS, IT Professionals can negate registry cleanouts and application migration amongst a host of other things, which will ultimately increase productivity. Could this really become a defacto standard in offices the world over?

The Business Communications Minefield

Ben Chai — Thu, 07 Feb 2008

Ben Chai takes a quick look at the different standards for internet and branch office connectivity and which is suitable for your business.

NAC in the spotlight

Steve Gold — Wed, 31 Oct 2007

Network Access Control (NAC) technology has gone from a standing start at the turn of the century to being a red-hot topic in today’s enterprise marketplace.

What Retention Policy? What deployment strategy?

Francois Mazoudier — Thu, 11 Oct 2007

In this series of papers, archiving expert Contoural's Bill Tolson provides an in-depth look at how to develop an effective email archiving solution for your organisation.

The web: an online ghetto?

Yogi Parmar — Fri, 05 Oct 2007

2007 has witnessed a shift in the methods used by cybercriminals to dupe innocent users from parting with their hard-earned cash.

Intrusion Prevention Systems in the spotlight

Steve Gold — Fri, 28 Sep 2007

Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) are starting to attract the interest of IT managers at all levels, largely thanks to their innate ability to enforce company security policies and, of course, help stop attacks on an organization’s IT resources in real time.

How to monitor a Pandora (in)box in 3 steps

Waterford Technologies and Muckle LLP — Fri, 24 Aug 2007

Should you monitor your employees' emails? What steps should be undertaken? What are the limits of email monitoring?

Using Archiving to Ease Exchange Server 2007 Migration

Francois Mazoudier — Tue, 07 Aug 2007

In many production environments older email servers are running close to capacity limits. This new Microsoft white paper looks at how to use archiving to streamline and simplify the process of upgrading or migrating from previous versions of Microsoft Exchange to Exchange Server 2007.

NAC: Controlling access to your network

Yogi Parmar — Tue, 31 Jul 2007

Have you heard the one about the printer repair technician and the malware outbreak?...

Remote Hacking via KVM

Ben Chai — Fri, 27 Jul 2007

Ben Chai examines how far the latest KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) technology has come and shows how your entire set of servers can be compromised due to the new found features of modern KVM.

What to look for in an Email Archiving Solution...

Francois Mazoudier — Fri, 08 Jun 2007

Choosing an e-mail archiving solution - whether to meet technical, business or compliance reasons - is a project that should not be taken lightly.

E-mail Compliance and Discovery - Don't Buy the Fear Factor

Ben Chai — Fri, 18 May 2007

Ben Chai demonstrates how email archiving systems should be justified using old fashioned principals rather than the unquantifiable risks of non-compliance.

Archive your emails or go to jail. You choose

Francois Mazoudier — Wed, 24 Jan 2007

Do you remember the content of the email you sent to your key supplier on June 8th 2001 at 4:05 pm?

An Overlooked Way to Save Money

clive longbottom — Fri, 24 Nov 2006

According to industry estimates, between one and three per cent of a company's annual revenue is spent on printing.