Articles about IT Best Practices

If you haven’t taken a second look at your software asset management practices lately, you may be throwing millions of dollars out the window. Today’s brave new world of on-demand licensing, virtual environments and cloud-based access to software adds even more complexity to the already-difficult task of managing your software estate. Continue Reading »

SEPATON recently conducted a survey of large enterprise IT managers to understand the data protection challenges that most concern them. Not surprisingly, the survey showed that the volume of data under protection continues to skyrocket. Continue Reading »

World IPv6 Day represents the start of a very long journey for most IT organizations. Continue Reading »

Since the launch of Microsoft Exchange 2010, organizations looking to update their infrastructure with more energy and cost-efficient servers are rapidly adopting the messaging platform, making it the dominant selection in the messaging and collaboration marketplace. Continue Reading »

SLAs have become much easier to implement, manage and enjoy than in the past. With appropriate tooling and a collaborative mindset, IT can quickly demonstrate value around keeping applications available and performing well.  Continue Reading »

Start classifying your vendors not by how much you buy from them, but rather where certain technologies are in their lifecycle. Continue Reading »

Once upon a time, enterprise IT and consumer technologies were vastly different animals, each with its own set of features, functions and benefits to assist the audience it was designed to serve. Continue Reading »

A transformation of the data center is under way thanks to vrtualization and a wave of new IT infrastructure. Continue Reading »