IT Expert Magazine - Network

Airmagnet Wireless Spectrum Analyser

mail@itexpertmag.com (Martin Courtney) — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:23:14 +0000

AirMedic is spectrum analysis software designed to help you plan a Wi-Fi network deployment by identifying nearby sources of radio frequency activity which may interfere and affect network per-formance.

Network monitoring is good for business

mail@itexpertmag.com (Martin Courtney) — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:31:27 +0000

What you need to keep customer networks running; free network management tools perform basic tasks on smaller networks but pay-for tools give you more data and customisation options.

Document management with Microsoft Search Server

mail@itexpertmag.com (Kay Ewbank) — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:04:31 +0000

Storage is cheap and it’s easy to create documents, so most companies have tens or hundreds of thousands of documents on the computers in their companies. So how do your customers find a document on a particular topic? The worrying answer is probably that they can’t...

Virtualizing Small Business Server with Hyper-V Server 2008 R2

mail@itexpertmag.com (Tim Anderson) — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:11:34 +0000

The challenge and reward of running SBS 2008 on Microsoft’s free Hyper-V Server platform.

Should you move customers to 802.11n?

mail@itexpertmag.com (Alan Fleming) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:39:17 +0000

802.11n has been ratified. And best of all, the release contains no incompatibility with the draft versions. Many laptops and other network devices have implemented 802.11n draft for the past couple of years. So should you upgrade any remaining 802.11g or 802.11b devices in customer networks?

Protecting Networks

mail@itexpertmag.com (Simon Bisson) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:11:35 +0000

Security is changing: smart clients and remote working mean that the security perimeter is getting closer to the server. How will you protect your clients’ networks tomorrow?

Raid 6 Storage

mail@itexpertmag.com (Simon Bisson) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:47:49 +0000

If two drives fail in a RAID 5 array, you lose data. RAID 6 promises more protection and better performance.

Security in the Virtual world

mail@itexpertmag.com (Martin Courtney) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:56:45 +0000

Many organisations need help expanding their data security policies to embrace virtual IT environments

Planning an Upgrade with MAP Toolkit 4.0

mail@itexpertmag.com (Tim Anderson) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:21:33 +0000

Keeping up with technology changes is a challenge for both consultants and their customers. Server virtualization is now fully integrated into Microsoft’s platform, with the advent of Hyper-V in Server 2008.

Mining Logs with Splunk

mail@itexpertmag.com (Simon Bisson) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:38:27 +0000

There’s a lot of information floating around in a network, information that’s being written into log files every minute of every day. Those log files that contain everything you need to know about how the systems you’re managing are running, and how they’re responding to the demands of their users.