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Quick Tips For Backing Up Your Windows Server in VM or Physical Environments by AppAssure Software

Read this top 10 card to get some tips for backing up your Windows Server.

The Top 10 Best Practices to Leverage the Public Cloud for Backup and Disaster Recovery by CA ARCserve

Because building out a complete disaster recovery infrastructure can be cost prohibitive for many organizations we’ll look at ways to leverage public cloud to supplement your backup and disaster recovery solutions. We’ll also provide general backup best practices.

Top 10 Tips for Optimizing SQL Server Performance by Quest Software

Read this white paper to see how to maximize database scalability and efficiency with ease.

The Top 10 Technical Tips for Virtualizing Tier 1 Business-Critical Applications by VMware

Addressing topics ranging from application mobility and disaster recovery to security, these ten handy tips will help see you through the course of virtualizing your most important business applications.

Top 10 Tips for Creating Solid Data Warehouses by EMC

In this Top 10 card, you will learn the tips for integrating and analyzing services in your data warehouse to of course, protect your important data.

Top 10 Desktop Virtualization Tips by Citrix

Here are some tips to follow when planning your desktop virtualization strategy, choosing vendors, and deploying your desktop virtualization solution.

The Top 10 Best Practices for Locking Down Corporate PCs by Viewfinity

Control is always an issue for corporate IT. End users have a tendency to treat their office computers as their own property and not as a corporate resource. Read this Top 10 card, sponsored by Viewfinity, to get some helpful tips on how to lock down corporate PCs.

Top 10 Things to Know About Protecting Microsoft Applications in the Cloud by Iron Mountain

Here are the top 10 things you need to know when considering cloud-based protection solutions.

Top 10 Technical Tips for Evaluating VMwareThinApp for Win 7 Migration by VMware

This top 10 card from VMware shows you the ihow to evaluate VMwareThinApp for your Windows 7 migration.

Top 7 Reasons to Upgrade the Windows 7 Defragmenter by Diskeeper

Read about the top 7 reasons you should consider third-party solutions for added functionality.

The Top 10 Windows Desktop Lockdown Tips & Tricks by Viewfinity

In this Top 10 card, readers can learn how to lockdown their desktop without taking an "All or Nothing" approach.

Top 8 Reasons for Implementing End-to-End Site Recovery Solutions Using Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ by Microsoft

With virtualization, you can reduce the amount of dedicated hardware required and the associated investment.

6 Important Steps to Evaluating a Web Filtering Solution by St. Bernard Software, Inc.

Read this brief in order to help you achieve the best return on your Web filtering dollar.

Best Practices for Storage Management and High Availability in your Microsoft Data Center by Symantec

This Need to Know guide will show you the best management practices and software that enable IT to meet the storage, availability and disaster recovery requirements of the business.

The Top 8 Challenges to Exchange High Availability and Disaster Recovery by CA/ARCserve

Understanding these Top 8 challenges can help you define which areas of Exchange need particular attention when planning to make an environment highly available.

Top 10 Ways to Optimize Remote Office Disaster Recovery by Zenith ARCA

Here are our top 10 tips for optimizing branch office DR while achieving overall improvements in cost efficiency.

Top IT Survival Tips in a Down Economy by Ensim

IT tasks don’t get reduced, and quite often continue to grow, even during an economic slowdown. Read this guide to make sure you have thought of everything you and your IT team can do to help save money and be more efficient. Here are our top tips for addressing the needs of IT in a down economy.

8 Things to Consider Before Sinking Money into Endpoint Security by Symantec

Coping with security threats is no simple task; addressing each security issue produced by endpoints individually can be costly, time consuming, and detrimental to productivity. Download this pocket guide to learn 8 things you should consider before sinking money and time into endpoint security.

The Top 10 Ways to Virtualize Your Infrastructure by AMD

You know what IT infrastructure is: the applications, servers, storage, and networks that comprise your enterprise information ecosystem, plus the duct tape that holds it all together. Here's a 10-step road map to moving your infrastructure to the Big V.

The Top 10 Reasons to Migrate to Windows Server 2008 by Microsoft

Driven by customer feedback, Windows Server 2008 provides a host of important new features that make it Microsoft's best server operating system to date. Here are the top 10 reasons to make the move to Windows Server 2008.