Configurations that "drift" from compliance, by the accrual of gradual, sometimes minute changes often lead to exploits, audit failures, and unplanned repair time. Worse still, it takes even more time to bring new, fresh, out-of-the-box servers up to a compliant, audit-passing state—sometimes a half a day or more per machine. 

Searchnetworking.com 2008 Product Leadership Award Winner, ipMonitor, delivers out-of-the-box availability monitoring ideal for environments with less than 500 network devices. 

In this IBM research study, learn what skills and services are necessary in an evolving MRO services market and how you can strengthen fundamental capabilities to compete. 

In this expert e-zine, explore the numerous benefits of Exchange Online retention policies as well as the PowerShell script necessary to manage and implement them. In addition, discover techniques to repair Outlook Web App 2010, new tools from the Microsoft Exchange team, and the latest Exchange updates. 

Automated network change and configuration management tools provide numerous benefits. Independent NCCM tools, however, are not enough on their own. Read this white paper to learn more. 

This guide addresses challenges that pressure engineering teams to reduce the cost and time of testing, provides insight into how test managers and engineers are overcoming these challenges, and offers guidelines on building modular, software-defined... 

Existing techniques for accessing maintenance consoles are inefficient and leave security holes in the network. Learn how, by deploying a secure console server, maintenance consoles can be secured and the availability of the network improved. 

Lumension's Sanctuary Application and Device Control is an IT-driven solution that automatically enforces endpoint security policies. The financial impact of moving from a "voluntary" compliance solution to an "automatic" one is illustrated 

Modularity is an established technique for organizing and simplifying a complex system. In data centers, modular design has already taken root in new fault-tolerant architectures for servers and storage systems. The mission of this paper is to illustrate how modularity delivers a profound reliability benefit: fault tolerance 

A trend in storage product messaging these days is the theme of self-healing storage - the ability of a system to detect and repair hard disk problems automatically. In this month's cover story, independent storage expert Marc Staimer explains how and how well they work. This electronic issue also includes features on storage efficiency...