Keeping your website running efficiently requires planning and diligence.

"Network upgrades can help ensure that your business isn't crippled by performance issues. "

By taking a multipronged approach to optimizing your data stores, your company can reap performance, capacity and energy-efficiency gains.

When done in tandem, virtualization and data center consolidation can maximize your business's bottom line.

Companies share their tips about how to prepare for a seamless upgrade to Windows 7.

In a hybrid environment where network resources and documents need to be constantly shared and exchanged between PC and Mac platforms, security is more important than ever. With the right combination of hardware, software and good old-fashioned IT policies and user education, you can keep both Macs and PCs on your network safe and secure.

Try five best practices for managing IT and network resources in today's challenging environment.

Businesses realize the sooner they implement USB security practices, the safer their networks will be.

With the proliferation and affordability of notebook computers, it's only a matter of time before one belonging to your business ends up in the wrong hands. Start planning now so that when you receive that phone call, you can rest assured your data is safe.

High-availability storage success depends on the ability to juggle emergency management within a realistic budget.

IT leaders share how to best utilize a unified threat management appliance to protect your business.

Try these five tips to help you get the most from your bandwidth.

With the constant influx of wireless devices, it is increasingly important to ensure your 802.11x networks are adequately secured. Use these best practices to help ensure a secure network for your business.

If your business is rolling out its first SharePoint implementation, then keep things simple. That's true for the solicitation and for your documentation, too.

Putting together a proper DLM policy requires some elbow grease — and perhaps a small financial investment — but there's much to be gained from one.

Here are seven tips for accelerating WAN throughput to every branch of your organization.

By deploying a PC lifecycle management strategy, IT departments can efficiently manage their PCs and software, reduce help-desk calls, cut costs, and meet security and compliance requirements.

Restoring a broken server to different hardware or to a virtual machine using the Restore Anywhere feature in Symantec's Backup Exec System Recovery is ideal for system administrators. Not only does it allow for rapid recovery from a system failure, but for a growing enterprise, it also makes redeployment of a server to new hardware a snap.

Evaluating your needs will help simplify the backup options available from Symantec.

Before you jump into any virtualized environment, here are a few lesser-known tips that might come in handy from companies that have already made the move.

For businesses moving to disk-to-disk storage, it makes sense to take advantage of existing tape stores.

A data center's physical infrastructure is the foundation for its success or failure. Use these tips the next time you plan a refresh.

Make sure your business stays online and on task by following these tips.

Here are six tips for getting started with 802.11n.

A data center's physical infrastructure is the foundation for its success or failure.

Use these eight best practices to develop a network access control plan.

Five IT chiefs offer smart tips for keeping technology costs down and alignment with business goals up in a tight economy.

Going green is easier said than done, but a few small process tweaks can reduce overall power consumption in your data center.

Here are five more ways to improve use of Citrix's thin Windows deployment tool.

Check out five ways that can help you get the most from Citrix's new thin Windows deployment tool.

Follow these five tips for a phased migration to the new Windows platform.

This step-by-step guide will smooth your virtualization deployment.

Follow these best practices to build a small office network from scratch.

Preventing unwanted configuration changes holds the key to maintaining system reliability.

Virtualization is on the verge of brining affordable and easy-to-implement disaster recover to the SMB market.

Reducing complexity can help you plan for growth.

Follow these tips to improve your network's performance.

New notebook bag will let business travelers clear security without having to remove the computer from its case.

VoIP opens new network vulnerabilities

Workarounds to help you learn what's new

Five ways to direct traffic to your website

Keep outside workers up and running with these six steps.

Best practices you can use to keep your large project out of the weeds.

New green IT solutions make it easy for small businesses save energy and cut costs.

Marketing is the next great technology frontier.

Companies can deduct up to $128,000 in hardware and software spending for 2008.

Try these tips and tricks for getting the most remote access out of your servers and applications.

A regional strategy on keywords can help attract the right customers to your Web site.

Learn how to get the most out of Symantec's latest version of the venerable backup software.

Carefully weigh the pros and cons of disabling IPv6 in Windows Vista.

10 steps to ensure your PCI project runs smoother.

Document management starts at document capture.

Five easy ways you can break your Windows network and place it into an unsupported state.

When it comes to Vista partitioning, some things stay the same, but a few things have changed.

If your plans aren't complete, consider building a better business case to put some muscle behind your disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Agile principles you can apply without anyone's permission.

The goal of any IT budget justification is to persuade decision-makers that they should approve and allocate funding for a project that will improve the way business is run.

Ten sure-fire methods to protect your mobile device assets.

Physical security is perhaps the most crucial aspect for overall system security.

Incident management can prevent a company from having to implement its disaster recovery plan.

Monitoring these metrics will translate Web traffic reports into strategic intelligence.

Flash drives are a fact of life in all companies; here's how to keep them safe and secure.

Many organizations don't turn on logging in their firewalls because of misconceived concerns about adverse performance. Don't let that be you.

Consider forging stronger Web links as part of your SEO strategy.

Diligently downloading fixes on Patch Tuesday isn't enough to protect your network from increasingly frequent zero-day attacks.

By using BitLocker Drive Encryption, you can protect your data on systems running Windows Vista.

Up the ante for search engine optimization results by crafting a utilitarian site map.

Hackers love to exploit security holes, so make sure search engine indexes aren't exposing your sites to "Google hacking."

Learn how to use a formal evaluation process to streamline and justify IT buying decisions.

If you want would-be customers to find you on the Web, try these tips to make your site search-engine friendly.

Never heard of XSS? You will. It's a favorite hacker exploit, and your Web application could be next.

Testing the waters with consumer gear is a start, but business networks need industrial-strength wireless access points.

Application performance monitoring keeps Web sites running at full tilt.

Newest release of Windows SharePoint Services provides a fast and easy solution to building Web sites.

A sound Exchange backup and recovery plan can turn potential disaster into a minor setback.

When malware takes up residence on company computers, here's how to give it the boot.

Small businesses are considering a range of options to ensure that they have software on tap.

Despite .NET's built-in security, programmers should follow these tips to keep Web services safe and secure.

A company can be as much of a victim in an ID theft scheme as the individuals whose personal info goes missing. Here are steps that can help prevent such data heists from harming your company's corporate image and endangering revenue.

Smart use of managed service providers can cut costs and increase productivity—just make sure to tally all expected expenses and to set the best terms in the service-level agreement.

Being conscientious about backing up data can have many rewards. One Manhattan-based small business negotiated a reduction in insurance premiums, arguing that its backup system lowered its risk.

Some companies choose to focus on what they do best and outsource the rest.

Multi-tasking employees are the lifeblood of small businesses. But major technology projects require managers who can keep their hands off the technical tasks—and focus on the big picture.