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Avanade Selling Process Improvements for Patch Management

Organizations looking for more than a tool to help with them cope with their patch management nightmares may be interested in a more holistic new consulting offering from Avanade.

IBM Blades Cut SMP Down to Size

IBM will begin shipping four-way server blades in February that will allow consolidation-minded organizations to jam 28 Intel Xeon MP processors into 7U of rack space.

OLAP Wars: Hyperion Strikes Back

With a quartet of Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers and the 64-bit edition of its Essbase OLAP, Hyperion beats Oracle’s market-leading score in a key OLAP benchmark by 39 percent.

Embracing Windows Server 2003: Moving a Global Firm from Windows NT

The final chapter in this four-part series discusses a global manufacturing firm's experiences in moving from NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003, an operation with 10,000 computers worldwide.

Microsoft Provides Blaster Removal Tool

Microsoft posted a tool in its Download Center on Tuesday for removing several variants of the Blaster worm.

Mac Has a Future with Microsoft

Microsoft unveiled a short-term roadmap for Apple Macintosh products this week at Apple's Macworld conference in San Francisco.

ScriptLogic Acquires Small Wonders Software

ScriptLogic Corp. bought privately-held Small Wonders Software, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday.

Microsoft Releases Beta of Windows for Opteron

Microsoft launched a customer preview program for its Windows Server 2003 operating systems for AMD's Opteron processors.

Making Amends: Microsoft Gives Away SBS CALs

Microsoft is offering an olive branch to Windows Small Business Server 2003 customers after an embarrassing problem with Windows SharePoint Services blocked users during installation of Small Business Server.

Take Control of Your Career

It’s time to try some new tricks that will help you stand out from the crowd.

Separation, No Anxiety

Separation of duties is a good idea in the business world. It’s also a good one in the IT world.

Take Control of Your Vendors

You’ve seen it all when it comes to vendor shenanigans. Here’s how to fight back.

Exchanges; Migration Move; A New Job; Getting SMS Right

Taking This Discussion Offline

Clearing the air on Windows Server 2003 offline file servers and offline file clients.

If Cars Were Like Windows…

New frontiers for certification

Little-Known Wireless Facts

What you need to know to set up your network.

Take Control of Your Security

Here are five things you can do right now— this minute—that will increase security on your networks.

Nothing Left to Chance

A pair of books from a pair of pragmatic programmers tackle source code control and testing programmatically.

Grab the Throttle!

Taking control of your environment in 2004

Build a Better NTFS Converter

Help for working through the steps.