BIOS Guides: The Essential IT Guide

Implementing SSO: Myths & Realities

Single sign-on (SSO) is a method of access control that enables a user to authenticate once and gain access to the resources of multiple software systems. Single sign-off is the reverse process, whereby a single action of signing out terminates access to multiple s...

Why Wireless Is Winning The Broadband War

Much has been written about broadband technologies. Whether wired or wireless, there never seems to be a lack of noise coming from would-be world-changing suppliers when it comes to broadband technology delivery. But what are the potential benefits of services prov...

Avoiding The Deadly Sins Of Data Backup

The large and complex part of good business governance that is data protection often relies on policies generated by technical staff with little or no understanding of the business they are attempting to protect. This results in the data protection staff focusin...

Understanding Femtocells

Femtocells are the new buzzword. These low-power wireless access points plug into a residential broadband connection to provide a mobile signal directly in the home. Basically, a femtocell is a very small footprint mobile base station using wide area network rad...

Top Ten Network Headaches

Budgeting decisions, annual network performance reviews, reduced staff - it's no wonder the holiday season can end up being a great distraction rather than a welcome relief in the eyes of a network administrator. This year check your network list twice and let's...

Essential Business Continuity Checklist

Business continuity management (BCM) is a process that helps manage risks to the smooth running of an organisation or delivery of a service, ensuring continuity of critical functions in the event of a disruption, and effective recovery afterwards. The Government ai...

Why Integrate Both Tape & Disk?

It's an argument being raised in IT departments the length and breadth of the country. Compared with today's blisteringly fast and reliable disk technologies tape, the storage medium for 50 years looks on the face of it outdated and outclassed. As backup softwar...

Why Your AP Department Needs ECM

How much money would you save if you could increase early pay discounts from vendors? How do you prove to auditors that expenses were approved by the appropriate people? Which of your Accounts Payable (AP) clerks is best at handling exception invoices? What is the ...

Ten Ways To Increase Storage Efficiency

It was during the early eighties that Information Technology was first understood to be the next driving force in a still ongoing industrial revolution - an opportunity to cut cost and complexity across the industrial landscape. Data storage became a topic for d...

How To Protect Your Mobile Assets

As laptop computers become more prevalent in the workplace, IT professionals face the new security challenge of protecting hardware and company information that is increasingly mobile. In this environment, the loss of even a single laptop can result in a business-j...