Does your organization run Microsoft Office, Exchange or SharePoint? If so, then you'll want to know about the new features in the soon-to-be-released Windows Phone 7 that will let you collaborate across these programs.

Businesses hungering for more storage capacity need look no further than network-attached storage.

Apple's new iPad is an intriguing addition to the small business workforce.

Try these tips when planning your Office 2010 deployment.

Try these five tips to enhance mobile security.

Which desktop deployment scenario is right for you?

An excellent way to avoid disruptions to users during an IT project is by using virtualization software in a test lab.

Businesses hungering for more storage capacity need look no further than network-attached storage.

Apple's new iPad is an intriguing addition to the small business workforce.

Learn ways to address the challenges of VM security.

Control Data Sprawl with File Classification in Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft's newest version of the popular Office suite brings stability, new features and enhancements to collaboration.

As a new switching infrastructure takes shape for the data center, these five steps can help pave the wave for unified fabric.

With Microsoft App-V, you can stream applications on demand, cache for offline use and manage a single package for easy deployment and maintenance.

Built-in replication and failover tools can be found in the last three versions of Microsoft's messaging server.

Learn how to best apply intrusion detection systems to spot security problems.

These five tips can help lengthen notebook battery life and postpone your search for a wall outlet.

Fibre Channel over Ethernet is a technology whose time is coming.

Make sure you have security rules in place before allowing the use of BitLocker To Go by your users.

Smartphones are proving to be a sound tool for keeping businesses running.

Portability, cost and functionality are making businesses take notice of netbooks for their field and remote workers.

If your company uses FTP, how do you ensure that your transfers are secure when you control only half the connection? Here are four ways to keep your company's data — and your partner's data — secure.

Enhance the end-user experience with these five tools.

The bright side of a down economy is that there's now a pent-up demand for IT infrastructure, especially wireless LANs.

New job-creation package extends tax deduction for IT purchases.

Portability, cost and functionality make businesses take notice of netbooks for field and remote workers.

Microsoft offers five new tools in Windows 7 to enhance user experience.

New Intel Core processor architecture offers a major leap forward for notebook PCs.

Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 offers quick and secure deployment of Windows 7.

these three tips to fine-tune your Hyper-V host machines.

Try this advice for implementing automated storage tiering with EMC hardware.

Book distributor realizes the business benefits of transportation management system technology.

Windows 7 provides an easy operating experience for road warriors.

Check out three pointers that can help you decide if desktop virtualization is right for your company.

Six steps can sharpen your Domain Name System, the workhorse of your IP network.

Tape automation offers businesses backup consistency and greater capacity.

Multifunction-printer deployments can increase efficiencies.

Converged network adapters cut costs and smooth cabling snarls.

Companies aim to catch customers' attention through use of latest display technology.

Check out five tips for leaner computers and happier users.

With the new BranchCache feature in Windows 7, users in remote offices no longer must accept less-than-perfect performance when tapping data on servers at headquarters.

If you found out tomorrow morning that you could not bring your company's network online for three days (no matter the reason), would your users still have access to key records they need to do their jobs? Could you access everything you might need to until the calamity had ended? Check out tips that can help you ensure business continuity.

Keeping your company's notebooks safe means helping your users be good mobile caregivers. Here are 10 tips for you to share with them before you send them on their way. And even if some things seem obvious, they probably bear repeating.

A complex and powerful product like Exchange can take control of your IT shop — if you don't learn how to take control of it first.

Undertaking an Active Directory migration is a big task, regardless of an organization's size and structure. BizTech offers four suggestions for a successful migration.

Think your systems are underutilized? The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit can help you figure out if your systems are running at peak performance and identify those ripe for virtualization.

Businesses are turning to desktop virtualization to lower costs, ease management and improve security.

These five technologies can maximize the protection of your end users' data.

Not ready to jump into the cloud just yet? Find out how to launch mini-clouds within your own infrastructure first.

Continuous monitoring with NetIQ's management console eases compliance chores.

Check out five technologies that can maximize the protection of your end users' data.

Using Multiple Active Firewall Profiles in Windows 7, Public, Private and Domain firewalls can be active simultaneously.

Policy setting and BitLocker encryption can help you manage the parameters for removable drive use.

The ultra-portable netbook platform offers an inexpensive alternative for companies that want to expand their telework programs.

8Gbps switches deliver big pipes for virtualized SAN environments.

Expert Michael Van Cleave, CDW Microsoft Technical Specialist, tells you what you need to know about Windows 7.

Microsoft's Data Protection Manager 2007 provides simple and reliable continuous data protection for Microsoft servers.

Real-world results prove e-signatures significantly reduce costs and boost the bottom line.

The latest flash solid-state drives offer the potential to consolidate vast volumes of network storage while providing continued real-time access.

HP's ProLiant servers are eco-friendly, offer virtualization improvements and have plenty of free power management software.

Help your end users take the disaster out of disaster recovery.

Try these tips for a seamless installation of VMware Fusion and give your Mac users the same access to apps as those using PCs.

Windows Deployment Service poses a clean, simple solution for distributing Vista images over a network.

Computer imaging software makes life easier when deploying new computers.

Deduplication technology lightens the data burden.

Silicon-based technology could reduce costs and improve performance of existing optical devices.

Take advantage of asset tagging to keep track of equipment.

Endpoint suites help SMBs save money and improve network management.

IT automation software frees businesses from repetitive toil, saving time and money.

HP's new flexible electronic display offers opportunities for e-books, e-readers and signage.

Wireless routers offer freedom and convenience that were once unheard of. Here's how to capitalize on this technology.

The bottom line on deployment in Windows 7? It's easier, faster and better.

Today's wireless routers offer freedom and convenience that were once unheard of. Here's how to capitalize on this technology.

AMD's Dragon platform lets power users push the limits of their monitors.

It's imperative to test your backups — if disaster strikes, you'll be glad you did. Here's how to ensure that your backups are solid.

WiMAX technology promises a cost-effective high-bandwidthd alternative for businesses.

Moving created the perfect opportunity for a British Columbia consulting company to deploy a new IT infrastructure.

Webcasting is taking off, thanks to a timely combination of tightening travel budgets, the introduction of new user-friendly high-def video cameras and better content delivery tools.

If your company is looking for ways to save money and minimize its carbon footprint, consider the following seven tips for going green.

HP's flexible electronic displays offer new opportunities for e-books, e-readers and signage.

If prices continue to drop, this could be the year for solid-state drives to take off.

Increase security and extend the life of older hardware with Server Core, an installation option of Windows Server 2008.

The Conficker virus has infected an estimated 9 million Windows-based computers worldwide. Arm yourself with knowledge and take action now to protect your system.

If you're not deploying virtualization today, you might soon be tempted to — in part because Microsoft is making it easy and free.

When it comes to designing information systems, functionality is essential, but performance should be factored in from the outset in order to prevent implementation problems down the road.

IEEE's new 802.11r standard would allow Wi-Fi devices to roam rapidly among access points, enhancing the operation of VoIP on enterprise LANs.

Researchers at the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, are developing prototypes of new, flexible computers that will respond to direct touch and even change shape to better accommodate data.

Videoconferencing helps SMBs reduce travel costs and unify their growing companies.

By extending Voice over IP, SMBs boost customer service and cut costs.

SMBs turn to tools that simplify backup of Macs and PCs over a single network.

Two-factor authentication increases security with the least inconvenience to end users.

Data loss prevention software can plug security leaks and force end users to change careless habits.

Six tips to keep teleworkers running smoothly.

Today's full-functioned software has numerous features designed to customize and simplify backup while helping companies with legal compliance.

Two separate developments might change the way computer chips are cooled in the near future, which could lead to improved performance and reliability, and reduced energy costs.

The chips wars continue between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices, and while Intel still is the clear leader, AMD is more ambitious than ever.

Intrusion technologies can be a valuable part of small-business security strategy.

Security and cost-cutting are driving companies toward thin-client computing.

SMBs say Microsoft CRM frees up the data so salespeople can look good in front of customers.

IT shops at SMBs say NAS offers faster, more centralized data protection at an affordable price.

Enhanced processors can take a company's performance level up a notch, but first you have to make the business case for an upgrade.

Use these tips to develop a successful program.

While many consider UMPCs to be a niche product line because of small shipment volumes, experts say this market is poised to expand fast and soon.

Display technology is beginning to reflect the convergence that is taking place between entertainment and computing. In the future, our computers will entertain us more and our entertainment devices will be more like computers.

Solid state drives offer better performance at competitve prices

SSL VPNs deliver romote access over the Internet

Five ways to sharpen your tech-support operation

Seven tips for making the transition to LCD displays

For nearly as long as there have been computers, IT managers have depended on passwords for user-authentication. We offer four tips to help make support calls for passwords an unusual call instead of the norm.

Using commercially available technologies and a little ingenuity, Signalife runs an efficient business and helps cardiac patients at the same time.

Smaller, faster and more efficient products make their debut.

Ask these questions to find the hidden potential in prospective new hires.

Follow these six steps to extend the life of older PCs.

Make administering Windows Vista easier with PowerShell 2.0's simple, compact cmdlets.

Stop the enemy at the gate with network access control.

Computer- and server-based desktop virtualization gain momentum.

New granular controls make auditing more useful and manageable.

Microsoft's new scripting tool can simplify network admin.

A better set of keywords can boost your online-search results.

UCSD has developed an automated troubleshooting system for wireless-access networks.

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 include the VPN technology.

Windows Error Reporting in Vista can automate failure analysis.

Technology might eliminate wires and preserve video-stream quality.

Vista's Single Sign On feature allows for easy wireless authentication.

Microsoft's PlayAnywhere brings interactive projection systems to the next level.

Devices that display 2-D and 3-D images in open air are getting more sophisticated and less expensive.

Check out these tips for troubleshooting hardware blips when deploying the Windows OS.

Do your users know how to tap the power of Vista Instant Search? They should.

Think radical human-computer interfaces are years away from commercial development? Think again.

The secret to e-mail that never gets dropped and Web sites that don't grind to a halt.

Critical data is growing at an exponential rate, and tapes are no longer the only option for backup.

Learn about helpful tools that can minimize headaches for tech support as users adapt to Vista's capabilities and security enhancements.

Understanding and addressing security issues with one of Vista's new features.

The forthcoming generation of e-paper readers could replace the newspaper and and possibly even certain types of books.

Web collaboration and videoconferencing options offer easier ways to meet.

These intangible programs can improve the quality of life and quality of work around the office.

Search engine optimization can have a dark side.

A few optimization tricks to get the most out of your portable system.

Prepare for paper-thin, full-color OLED displays in the not-too-distant future.

Four overlooked aspects of disaster recovery and business continuity can make restoring your data much easier.

New technology could vastly increase the amount of data a single disc can hold.

Exchange 2007 allows better backup that should eliminate lost data.

For Windows Vista and Server 2008, Microsoft changes the ground rules for volume activations. Learn the basics for activating computers across an enterprise.

Defragging is built into Windows, making it a cheap and easy way to give your systems a performance boost.

Digital eyeglasses could let users watch videos, play 3-D games, read e-mail and even receive GPS-assisted guidelines without taking their eyes off the road.

Power over Ethernet delivers about 13 watts of power over a network cable.

Technology is making it easier for companies to track users' eyes on their Web site.

This may sound silly to technophiles, but plenty of people don't understand how secure Web sites work.

Even the smallest company can take advantage of the user benefits available in a single voice and data infrastructure that also integrates cell phones into network and desktop applications.

Any IT manager tasked with finding a new Web site domain name in the last 10 years or so has probably noticed the best ones are taken.

BitTorrent eyes the enterprise

Sure, digging through the .NET Framework documentation is a rip-roaring good time, but here are a few shortcuts to get you back to your coding faster.

Protect your network against itself.

Double the reach to USB devices by unplugging the cables.

Use ReadyBoost to improve performance with USB flash drives.

Done right, social media sites can boost Web site traffic.

Are new hybrid hard drives hype or a decently priced alternative?

Avoid the journey into legal liability land by exiting at the next signpost &mdash encrypted drives.

Try these tips to help prevent eavesdropping and information leaks from affecting your wireless networks and devices.

There's a lot to like, even love, about Microsoft Vista, but that doesn't mean you need to make the leap just yet.

To eliminate the technology "get-it" gap, you must understand your end users' strengths and weaknesses.

Disk technology gets all the hype, but tape backup remains popular because of its price, performance and portability.

Augmenting traditional tape archives with disk-based backup gives businesses extra insurance for critical data.

The next generation Internet, IPv6, will ease the current shortage of available addresses for the foreseeable future.

Teach your users these do-it-yourself tricks to fix computer problems and help minimize the strain on IT support.

As networks grow and become more complex, managed network switches may be worth the extra cost and time it takes to put them through their paces.

Moving to scalable blade servers can help small companies deliver big service and grow faster.

Is it time to consider blade PCs?

If you need to improve file transfer speeds, then consider making a move to Gigabit Ethernet.

To protect your essential systems gear from damaging power failures, get the right UPS.

If you need to keep e-mail packrats under control, Exchange mailbox management can do the trick.

Storage area networks aren't just for the big guys anymore, but the complexity of your apps will dictate whether to go with a Fibre Channel or an IP SAN.

Some 87 percent of corporate PCs contain some type of spyware. To stay ahead of the problem, small businesses use a combination of software, user education, policies and vigilance.

Wi-Fi phones have not quite arrived, but analysts predict that mobile phones that use both cellular and Wi-Fi technology are in your future.

Unprotected Wi-Fi networks can leave your company open to anyone, from the casual Internet-access freeloader to the hacker intent on maliciously spreading a virus or worm. Here are the steps you should take to keep your network secure.

A number of systems are available to help small businesses capitalize on the intersection of telephony and Web services. Daniel P. Dern provides insights on what to think about in making the transition.