By Jerry Cochran, 09/27/2005
Hackers use these free utilities all the time, so you better be using them too.
By Jerry Cochran, 09/22/2005
Tell us about the most surprising thing you learned when assessing the security of your network. We'll send a T-shirt to the reader whose surprising finding surprises us the most.
By Jerry Cochran, 07/27/2004
If you haven't examined your strategy for a while, now's the time to take a fresh look at how your organization protects its data.
By Jerry Cochran, 04/05/2004
Storport overcomes SCSIport's architectural limitations and will take Windows applications to the next level of storage performance and functionality.
By Jerry Cochran, 03/30/2004
Mount points are useful tools that overcome drive-letter limitations and simplify directory navigation of your storage systems.
By Jerry Cochran, 03/22/2004
A lack of OS and application support is among the reasons that storage replication hasn't become a mainstream technology in Windows data centers. But Microsoft is making headway ...
By Jerry Cochran, 03/08/2004
Only after fundamental cultural changes take place in IT and the organization can line of business applications be successfully hosted on a storage utility.
By Jerry Cochran, 02/24/2004
What is iSCSI and what does the IP-based standard mean for you?
By Jerry Cochran, 02/23/2004
We might not reach Storage Resource Management (SRM) nirvana (whether we're talking about Windows or another OS) for a while, but it never hurts to dream.
By Jerry Cochran, 02/02/2004
ISCSI enables block-mode data transfer over "cheapnet," which is the key to allowing I/O-hungry Windows Server applications to use network-based storage.
By Jerry Cochran, 01/12/2004
Microsoft's MPIO plus vendor-supplied device-specific modules yields a robust, vendor-independent framework for multipath I/O.
By Jerry Cochran, 08/27/2003
The combination of IntelliMirror, Remote Storage Service, and Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service technologies gives users and administrators world-class file-sharing ...
By Jerry Cochran, 06/24/2003
Discover how VSS running on Windows 2003 can improve Exchange 2003 system availability.
By Jerry Cochran, 04/22/2003
Storage virtualization can be complex. Windows 2003's new Virtual Disk Service makes the process much simpler.
By Jerry Cochran, 01/27/2003
Evaluate remote storage technology and its potential for your organization.
By Jerry Cochran, 11/25/2002
Learn the differences between basic and dynamic disk storage and how your decision will affect your servers.
By Jerry Cochran, 09/30/2002
Find out how Microsoft has begun maximizing the value that technologies such as Storage Area Networks (SANs) bring to the Windows environment.
By Jerry Cochran, 08/30/2002
Jerry Cochran bids readers farewell and looks back at 3 years of Exchange & Outlook
By Jerry Cochran, 08/23/2002
Be sure you understand the implications of making the switch to native mode.
By Jerry Cochran, 08/16/2002
Jerry Cochran reviews Microsoft's new Exchange 2000 Server security guide.