Try these four tactics for reducing PC energy consumption.

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold monitors the network and alerts you to problems.

Let the city of Miami's experience provide pointers to ease your agency's upgrade to Microsoft's newest OS.

Built-in replication and failover tools can be found in the last three versions of Microsoft's messaging server.

Use these three tips to fine-tune your Hyper-V host machines.

IT managers deploying virtual servers use a mix of physical and virtual load balancers to manage network traffic.

Six steps can sharpen your Domain Name System, the workhorse of your IP network.

Try five best practices for managing IT and network resources in today's challenging environment.

With the growing use of virtualization and ever increasing application workloads, servers often must shoulder loads much larger than what they were originally designed to handle. Learn some basics on how to add a CPU or upgrade an existing one.

By combining bandwidth management, WAN optimization and application acceleration, you can reduce bandwidth demand and improve service levels on your network.

In large enterprises, where users must share data extensively between locations, learn tricks to optimize bandwidth so that your data can get from here to there (and back) with minimum latency.

To get the most from your PC investments, take advantage of asset management, warranties and staff training. These efforts will reduce help-desk support calls, cut maintenance costs and bolster user productivity.

Understanding how to make use of Fortinet's UTM devices can reap savings for your organization, make the network administrator's job easier and improve your network's overall security posture.

The bottom line on deployment in Windows 7? It's easier, faster and better.

Use these tips to make sure your older programs will work with Microsoft's latest OS.

By deploying optimization and acceleration techniques, agencies can assure that users in even far-flung locations can tap data and apps.

The short answer: Yes. Follow five tips for a phased migration to Windows Vista.

Try out these five hot ideas for keeping your systems cool and your power demand low.

Microsoft tweaks its OS and makes improvements for the forthcoming Service Pack 2.

In the ragged terrain of war-torn Afghanistan, a team of Army network specialists battles harsh conditions to keep data flowing.

These two tips can help you turn smart IT practices into ROI for your data center.

Don't ask when or if a breach will occur. Instead, ask yourself: Has the IT team set the stage to stop and contain an intrusion?

ITIL offers a best-practice approach to managing IT services across an enterprise, but agencies likely will use it in a more-targeted manner.

Learn how the IT Infrastructure Library helped FAA's help desks achieve a 97 percent success rate.

By helping users help themselves, an agency's tech support team can focus on the big problems — and save money in the process.