- ProxyInspector for ISA Server 2.6g Appropriate Control — When things get about the corporate Internet usage and traffic control, there always a lot of the loose talks: Either the management needs to control every kilobyte of data transfer and every connection or employees can have certain level of freedom? The answer to this question varies from one organization to another and depends on many factors. However, all agree that the *control is necessary*. The easiest way for control the Internet usage…
- Backup prOxy Server. Backup belongs to the past - The future is in recovery! — Solutions for data backup and recovery are the frequent theme of reviews, and this frequency has an explanatory background: there is not a more important task than keeping corporate or personal vital data in a safe place. But this task (backup, namely) has one less commonly discussed aspect: what is the *overall purpose* of data backup? Don’t answer immediately; let?s think. The common answer is: «to keep data safe.»…
- Kwok Information Server 2.3, IT Management with Pleasure — Every IT business, even the smallest one, needs to manage some, at least the most basic kinds of information related to their business. Of course, when it’s a company of «two directors and one worker», it can manage all of its operations through sticky notes or Excel worksheets. But, becoming serious, becoming organized, with multiple orders, clients, employees, and rooms definitely requires specialized software for…
- 10 Applications MyDB 2.0, Data is Always With Me — Writable CD and DVD disks just couldn’t have become our main media. Several years later, a USB stick could. Now, willing always to be able to work with your data, you shouldn’t have these heavy and expensive notebooks or not-so-handy handhelds. You are just carrying around your data on a small memory stick and any computer on the way can suit you as a workplace. But in fact, it is not that easy…
- AA Mail Server, Be Your Own Email Service Provider — No matter how hard you try to set up a hosted email service the way you want it to be, chances are that you’ll end up compromising your demands, for it’s hardly possible to have someone do things the way you want them be done. If you want to take control over your email communications, fire up your own email server, and yet not spend much time dealing with low-level technical issues, take a note…
- AlphaControls - adding fashion to your applications has never been easier — As a developer, you should be primarily concerned with the functionality of your application and its stability in different conditions. As a smart developer, you should also be concerned with the appearance of your products. This important factor often becomes the final incentive that makes people choose a specific product among dozens of identical ones. Therefore, creating applications with style and beauty in mind is a great…
- Reboot Service - ad hoc control over the stability of remote servers — If the stability of your corporate network or the proper operation of your clients’ applications depends on how your server performs, its uninterrupted work and long uptime should be your primary areas of concern. Whenever your server’s memory is full, memory overflow errors cause the server to perform poorly or lead to complete freezing. In these cases, being close to the server to reboot it is vital…
- Remote Files Server - an affordable alternative to expensive and cumbersome file sharing systems — As your corporate or community network grows in size, you may eventually bring some order to it and get rid of hundreds of randomly named folders clogged with thousands of file with equally indecipherable names. This would be a relatively easy task for an experienced network administrator using a server operation system. But what if you are not that advanced and just need to configure proper access to shared files for…
- Server Control Tower. PA Server Monitor — “How’s my server doing?” “What’s going on with it now?” “Hope, I haven’t missed anything important.” — These are the most typical things server administrators are concerned with. In order to not miss anything important, some of them never leave their seats. (Or, if there are many servers, they run around them to make sure everything is o’kay.) Others pick the…
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