There's this inevitable cycle of your business could increase its revenue and your customers could be protected more. While you’re already providing your customers with great backup services generating material monthly revenues, you need additional service streams that allow you to easily increase revenue, provide better service, establish more protection for your clients, and improve your ability to recover their business. In this educational MAXfocus webcast, I discuss: Bui

I think it’s safe to say that the threats that existed when you first deployed Windows Server 2003 were minor in comparison to today, both in severity as well as in number. The move from Server 2000 to 2003 was little more than a simple upgrade and you probably gave little or no thought to changes in security. Fast forward to 2015 and the differences in the security landscape – both in the types of threats to the OS and the available response capabilities built into new opera

Application management was once little more than standardizing on a copy of, say, Office which you deployed every few years. But as applications seek to stay competitive in the face of security concerns and the availability of SaaS applications, the speed at which application updates are released have never been faster. And without proper control over what is installed where, that can cause application conflicts, wasted licensing costs, and potentially soaring support costs.

Virtualization has more than just allowed you to run multiple VMs on a single physical machine; it’s ushered in an era where even the smallest company can host the most complicated multi-tiered applications. And while for some of you virtualization does just mean having a few guest OSes on a hypervisor, for others it’s a more complex mix of clusters and server farms – all of which need to be protected in case of the need for recovery. And with that complexity comes the questi

There’s a lot of focus today on business continuity, usually with an emphasis on disaster recovery. But I think you’ll agree, the fires, floods, and hurricanes of the world are few and far between. But let’s stay on the idea that your business needs to run continuously for a moment. when you think about it from an application perspective, the idea of continuity takes on a bit of a different medium. It certainly can be about whether an application is running or not, but given

I think it’s safe to say the printing landscape for most IT Pros has changed. Businesses have shifted from bricks and mortar to a distributed workforce, and printing today is more about where the print job needs to go than where the user is. So the question becomes what’s the right way to setup and configure printing that accomplishes a couple of things - lowers IT support costs, raises user productivity, and simplifies the printing environment for both IT and users? In this

By your even looking at this blog post, it’s a safe assumption that you’re planning on going (or are already going) through a migration or are preparing for a disaster. With Active Directory being the crux of so many critical systems, you need your plan to be as close to reality as possible to ensure a successful migration or recovery. So how can you best prepare for any unforeseen contingencies in a way that doesn’t take up all your time and focus? In this webcast sponsored

We all know your virtual environment isn't going to remain static. And with the potential for so many IT pros managing an already complex virtual infrastructure, the question inevitably comes up How do you keep track of changes? as well as (and probably more importantly) What impact do those changes have? In this webcast, I'm joined by Hassan Fahimi from Dell Software, product manager for Foglight for Virtualization, as we discuss the challenges of maintaining control over ch

You have to admit it’s tantalizing to say the least – exchanging (bad pun intended) the headache of implementing, managing, supporting, and updating Exchange for the lure of the simplicity of Exchange online within Office 365. But, when you get there, does the reality match the hype? You each have legitimate concerns with issues around security and availability, as you would for any system, so the question "Just what should I expect and what’s available to compensate for any

It’s likely today that you’ll need to recover a single user account, an email, a database, or a file – far more than you’ll need to recover all of Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, or SharePoint – and yet, your backup and recovery strategy focuses on recovering the enterprise, and not daily recovery needs of that enterprise. In this recorded webcast, sponsored by Veeam, I discuss what’s possible from a technology standpoint – both with the product you wish to recover fr