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[Apr 8, 2008]
Optimum Backup for Virtualized Servers
If you ask IT professionals what their hot topics are in IT right now, you can be sure that the subject of virtualization comes up. Whether it is application virtualization or virtualization for server consolidation, the ability to deliver virtualized services is a key one for IT departments today and for those planning their future growth. Virtualization simply makes technical and economic sense when looked at in terms of improving the efficiencies of your operations. — David Chernicoff
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[Jan 25, 2008]
Creating Data Storage Systems that Meet Regulatory Guidelines
Regulatory compliance is often a major bugaboo for the storage administrator. For smaller businesses without IT staff focused specifically on compliance issues, this can be an even more complex problem. In this podcast, David Chernicoff will talk about the regulatory issues surrounding data storage requirements, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC Rule 17-4, and HIPAA. He will also provide direction to IT personnel who are responsible for setting up storage systems that meet regulatory guidelines to help them easily and efficiently meet these needs without requiring an expensive and resource-intensive solution that interferes with their normal line-of-business IT responsibilities. — David Chernicoff
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[Oct 31, 2007]
Using SharePoint 2007 As A Platform For Managing Information Across the Enterprise
This podcast investigates the benefits of employing SharePoint 2007 as a platform for managing information throughout the enterprise. We will discuss the basics of the content management process and explain how workflow and information management policies are implemented in Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions. After listening to this podcast, you will know how to develop a tactical approach to your own automated processing solutions with ease of implementation and use as key components of that solution. — Melissa Fraser
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[Sep 27, 2007]
The Keys to Backing Up and Securing Data at Remote Business Sites
Growing businesses often find themselves operating multiple locations, creating significant IT challenges. With many companies facing stretched IT resources, decisionmakers often find it difficult to provide a high level of service at just the main office, resulting in remote sites getting short shrift, especially when it comes to data protection. But keeping the data at remote office sites backed up and secure is a critical component of business success. In this podcast, David Chernicoff discusses the issues that need to be dealt with to provide data backup to remote sites and offer ideas and suggestions for accomplishing these backups. — David Chernicoff
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[Jun 5, 2007]
Online Backup As a Service
IT has never been short on buzz - the problem is for each innovation that is buzzworthy, two prove to be just buzzwords and are forgotten within months. "Software as a service," including online backup as a service, is currently generating a lot of buzz. In this podcast, you will find out a little more about why storage as a software service is definitely worthy of the buzz. — Ben Smith
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[Apr 24, 2007]
Exchange 2007 and High Availability
Microsoft has invested several years and a great deal of effort in refining the new availability features in Exchange Server 2007. In this podcast, Paul Robichaux talks about the new clustering and replication features and what they mean to your HA design as you prepare to migrate to Exchange Server 2007. Paul also highlights HA situations that might be better addressed by other technologies. Figuring out which combination of technologies will give you the best possible protection is a challenge, but it's well worth the effort. — Paul Robichaux
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[Mar 29, 2007]
Build a World Class End-to-End Web Filtering Solution in 5 Steps
IT departments tend to spend a lot of time and energy on creating and managing firewall rules and router tables, yet overlooking a direct channel between the Internet and computers on the corporate network. Without any type of filtering solution in place - this connection is managed purely by the user. Do you trust your user's enough to make the right decisions? Are your users really educated enough to make good decisions? Are all of your users aware of company policy and comply faithfully? Even if you believe that your users are capable of safely using the Internet, it really only takes one bad apple to ruin the lot by downloading a virus or viewing highly objectionable content. Here are the 5 steps to build a world-class web filtering solution -- end-to-end. — Ben Smith
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[Mar 29, 2007]
System Center Launch: Talking to Kirill Tatarinov Direct from MMS
Find out about the launch of System Center Operations Manager 2006 as Microsoft VP Kirill Tatarinov discusses the first product to embody the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) and what that means to IT pros. — Karen Forster
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[Mar 21, 2007]
Blackberry Security In-Depth
Karen Forster, editorial and strategy director for Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine, interviews Scott Totzke, Vice President, Global Security Group at Research In Motion, in a conversation that centers on mobile device security, including the popular Blackberry. — Karen Forster
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[Mar 12, 2007]
Microsoft and the Midmarket: A Renewed Commitment
Midsized companies that have a strategic focus on IT are, on average, 30 percent more profitable than companies that don't. Microsoft's research has also shown that IT infrastructure, not business applications, is the component that shows the most direct correlation to profitability: Think about the importance of security, reliability, and keeping IT running. Microsoft has realized that its focus on the enterprise segment has meant that midsized businesses have been neglected. The company is now making up for lost time and focusing on solutions specifically for the mid-market segment, with products such as Windows Vista Business, Office 2007 Pro Plus, the Vista Hardware Assessment Tool, System Center Essentials (SCE), and the upcoming Windows Longhorn mid-market server package code-named "Centro." Karen Forster talks with Davide Vigano, Microsoft's general manager for midmarket strategy about this new focus. — Karen Forster
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[Mar 5, 2007]
Vista Security, Part 2: Windows Vista Kernel Mode Protection
Would you change your spark plugs while the car engine was running? That's how Stephen Toulouse, a Microsoft security expert, described what security vendors do when they "hook" the Windows kernel to take advantage of it for security products. Much has been said and written about Microsoft's Kernel Mode Protection in Windows Vista, yet few people realize that this lockdown applies only to the 64-bit version of Vista and that access is provided through APIs. This conversation between Karen Forster and Toulouse might just change your perception of this controversial security feature of Windows Vista. — Karen Forster
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[Mar 2, 2007]
Vista Security, Part 1: ASLR, UAC, Integrity Levels, and Beyond
Microsoft is touting Vista as its most secure operating system ever, but what does that really mean? In this podcast, Karen Forster talks with Stephen Toulouse, Microsoft Senior Product Manager to discuss the various built-in aspects of Vista security, including User Access Control (UAC), IE with Protected Mode, Windows Defender, ASLR, and BitLocker, among others. Karen and Stephen also discuss recent vulnerabilities, such as the one discovered in Vista's voice recognition technology. If you're considering Vista or already using it, you'll want to hear the inside story on Vista's security enhancements. — Karen Forster
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[Feb 27, 2007]
Who is watching your back? A primer on hosted security.
If you have spent any time around information security, I am sure you have heard someone offer the sage advice that security is all about managing risk. Unfortunately, the person offering the advice rarely can tell you want you can do to manage risk. — Ben Smith
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[Feb 23, 2007]
Keep Unsecured Machines Off Your Network: Microsoft Talks About Policy-Driven Network Access Solutions
Imagine your network protecting itself by preventing unsecured devices from accessing your resources. Microsoft is now providing technology that ensures every device that connects to your network has up-to-date security protection (e.g., current patches, anti-virus and anti-spyware). You can keep machines that are not compliant with your security policies off your network with Network Access Control (NAC) technologies for Longhorn Server and Windows Vista. Karen Forster discusses Microsoft's recent announcements about NAC, as well as Network Access Protection (NAP), with Microsoft's Ian Hameroff. Learn how NAC and NAP work and what technologies are involved, as well as what third-party products are poised to work with these technologies, in this exclusive interview. — Karen Forster
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[Jan 30, 2007]
Industry Bytes: General Discussions—VIRTUALIZATION with Frank Artale of Xensource
Windows IT Pro Magazine created Industry Bytes to keep you up to date with industry news coming straight from the industry experts. Now we've taken another step ahead and created a podcast series called "Industry Bytes: General Discussions". In this series we ask our industry experts to give us their personal take on broad topics such as Security, Backup and Recovery, and Network Administration. In this inaugural podcast we speak to Frank Artale of Xensource about Virtualization technologies. —
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[Jan 19, 2007]
Core Security Technologies Presents: The Inside Story on Forefront Vista and XP Security
This Windows IT Pro Radio broadcast features Windows IT Pro editorial and strategy director Karen Forster in a lively interview with Josue Fontanez, senior product manager at Microsoft focused on Forefront Client security, an enterprise security product. The interview centers around product planning, future versions of Forefront Client, and what customers are looking for in this product. This podcast is sponsored by Core Security Technologies, the provider of Penetration Testing product CORE IMPACT. — Karen Forster
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[Oct 20, 2006]
Microsoft Open Source Strategies Podcast
A discussion between Paul Thurrott and Sam Ramji, director of the open source software lab at Microsoft centering around Microsoft's focus on open-source technical strategies. — Paul Thurrott
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[Oct 19, 2006]
Top 5 Reasons Storage Consolidation Should Be On Every IT Department’s Short List
Information is the "I" in "IT." While, as IT managers and professionals we spend a lot of time thinking about servers and applications, at its heart, IT is about the information and its management within the technology systems and business processes. A simple quiz: Do you know where you information is? Is it protected? Is it being backed up? In this podcast we will discuss why every IT department should be moving to storage consolidation. — Ben Smith
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[Jun 30, 2006]
Beyond the Buzzword - Demystifying Virtualization TCO Improvements
Total Cost of Ownership – TCO – It’s every executive’s favorite buzzword, but what does it really mean and how does it affect you? In this podcast, Ben Smith explains how your organization can use virtualization technology to measurably improve the total cost of ownership (TCO) for servers and clients. — Ben Smith
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[Feb 22, 2006]
Benefits of Server Virtualization
In this audio podcast, server virtualization expert Ben Smith describes the benefits of this technology, which makes use of virtual computing software, such as Microsoft Virtual PC and EMC's VMware, to abstract hardware on a physical computer into virtualization software, making computers much more efficient. — Ben Smith
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[Jan 31, 2006]
The Future of Active Directory
In this podcast, expert Mark Minasi discusses Microsoft's meta-directories strategy and how it will affect Active Directory in the future. He specifically gives his thoughts on how enterprises can use Microsoft's free utility Identity Integration Feature Pack (IIFP) to automate multiple user accounts, and the importance of being able to move domains between forests. — Mark Minasi
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[Oct 24, 2005]
Free Range IT
This podcast touches on a collection of topics, including the release of E2K3 SP2, the Exchange TAP, and how lawyers are perverting a useful legal tool to cover up security malfeasance. — Paul Robichaux
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[Aug 24, 2005]
Free Range IT — Free Advice and Worth Every Penny
If someone gives you advice, and you don't take it, who's at fault if something bad happens? This is exactly the situation we're in with software vendors, and the answer may surprise you. — Paul Robichaux
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[Jul 29, 2005]
Free Range IT
Ever feel like reading your email is wasting all your time? Maybe it is. What can you do about it? Listen and find out. Now with 100% less intro music! — Paul Robichaux
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[Jun 29, 2005]
Free Range IT
In this podcast, I talk about Microsoft's secret weapon in the office-suite wars. Its not what you think. — Paul Robichaux
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[Jun 20, 2005]
Free Range IT
This week, I talk about some of the products that won awards at TechEd US 2005, as well as some products that didn't but probably should have. — Paul Robichaux
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