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Generate Revenue Through IT Using Business Service Management
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Making sure that your business applications are available to their end users is an important part of running your business smoothly. Business operations have evolved to where IT must now broaden its focus to help the company attract, retain and grow customer relationships and increase customer satisfaction. Business service management (BSM) helps lay the foundation by managing services in dynamic support of business requirements. »
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Managing the Modern Network
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Storage Networking 2, Configuration and Planning
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In Part 1, we discussed storage area networks (SANs) and fibre channel. In Part 2, delve into best practices and cover the general concepts you must know before configuring SAN-attached storage. The most critical, sometimes tedious, part of setting up a SAN is configuring each individual disk array. This guide examines configurations for SAN-attached servers and disk arrays, and also includes a look at the future of IP storage.
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Is Your Disaster Recovery Plan Good Enough? Get Disaster Recovery Right
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Preparing for a disaster is more often than not part of the storage planning process, and without question it is one of the most difficult task, since it includes local hardware and software, networking equipment, and a test plan to ensure that you can recover from the disaster. Learn how to put your organization on the proper disaster recovery plan, now. »
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.comment: So You Think You Want to Use Linux
What Does It Take?

Dennis E. Powell
Wednesday, January 10, 2001 08:28:58 AM
Last Friday in this space I took Mark
Kellner to task for an article he wrote in the Los Angeles Times
about a two-week experiment with Linux. At bottom, it seemed to me
that two weeks is not enough time to tell anyone very much that's
useful about Linux; even if one were in an enterprise and an expert
came in and set it up and trained the brigades, it would probably be
more than two weeks before people became sufficiently accustomed to
it to form the beginnings of valid opinions. Qualitative issues
aside, Linux and Windows are entirely different, and skills gained in
one do not translate to the other.
In the days since that column
appeared, Mr. Kellner and I have exchanged email. He's not an
unreasonable guy. Nor is he clueless. Our communication has caused me
to revisit a question that I (as many other Linux users, I suspect)
have avoided even trying to answer: what is an orderly way of giving
Linux a fair trial? What should we tell friends and associates who
are thinking of taking our favorite operating system for a spin? What
are the minimum requirements that a would-be user must meet?
With that in mind, I'm now going to
try -- with no idea whether I'll succeed -- to figure out the advice
I'd give to those who are not especially computer savvy, but who want
to explore Linux for whatever reason, from wishing to be trendy to
support of the idea of free software to a dislike of Microsoft.
Mostly, I want to see if such a thing can be done without asking a
great deal more of the user than is required by whatever came on the
computer. Here goes. Next: The Preliminaries »
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