As winter turns to spring, (if at the moment in name only) many of us feel a need to de-clutter and clean our homes and offices. It’s a timely reminder that data can also accumulate in organisations’ IT systems and archives, making it difficult to manage and expensive to store. An important part of any organisation’s data management strategy, along with aiming for 100% availability and securely deleting data that’s no longer needed, is ensuring that data is effectively backed up. Conducting ... [More]

How many times have you created a PDF file, gone to email it and it’s too large to send? Nitro have 5 easy tips to help you reduce your PDF file size. The two biggest things to look at when you want to reduce the size of PDF files are removing objects and downsampling/shrinking the images it contains. Tips also include re-creating the PDF to reduce PDF file size and reducing PDF file size with ‘Save As’. These tips are intended to make the shrinking process as quick and easy as possible. To ... [More]

Capturing lessons learned at the end of an iteration, release or project is a long standing project management best practice. This typically involves a facilitator helping the project team brainstorm relevant lessons learned. This can be captured on a flip chart or a whiteboard, however, many prefer to document lessons learned using a MindGenius mind map. By capturing the lessons learned in a mind map format, the facilitator can categorise and organise by type and resource. The facilitator can... [More]

  Are you interrupting your job duties to read this? Or, more likely than not, are you taking a break between filling out last-minute March Madness brackets? Salary.com understand the considerable amount of irony involved in taking time out of your workday to read an article about wasting time at work, but their annual Wasting Time at Work survey results are out and they're pretty interesting. Ever wonder exactly how much time the average American worker spends on non work-related items ... [More]

With the proliferation of personal device use within organisations and accessibility of online streaming, live content, events such as March Madness can result in productivity loss, poor network performance and even downtime for customers. With March typically being the busiest month of the business calendar, you may have found yourself wishing you’d planned ahead in greater detail as the work piled up over the past few weeks. According to packetTrap, Managed Service Providers can be a key play... [More]

One of Raxco's customers has decided to tell their story about how important the PerfectDisk Enterprise Suite has been to his company. Headquartered in Maisons-Alfort, France, Fives Stein is a leading engineering company operating in the steel and glass industries, a subsidiary of the Fives global industrial engineering group. Fives designs and supplies process equipment, production lines and turnkey plants for the world’s largest industrial groups in the aluminium, steel, glass, automotive &am... [More]

Few dispute that the biggest determining factor in corporate success is hiring the very best people. An executive that dismisses this notion will not remain in a senior position for very long. To that end, the best recruiters are always looking for the edge that can ensure they attract and retain the very best candidates. Each generation of new talent has its own unique set of demands. The generation known as Millenials (those born between 1982 and 1995) are certainly no different. These are t... [More]

Symantec have announced the successful takedown of the Bamital botnet. Symantec has been tracking this botnet since late 2009 and recently partnered with Microsoft to identify and shut down all known components vital to the botnet's operation. Bamital is a malware family whose primary purpose is to hijack search engine results, redirecting clicks on these results to an attacker controlled command-and-control (C&C) server. The C&C server redirects these search results to websites of the ... [More]

Virtual machines or Virtual PC’s, like VMware, are software which emulate real computers. By using virtual machines in your QA testing, you can emulate one computer or create a whole virtual lab. Each virtual machine can be configured differently, run on different operating systems and/or run independently from each other. Download this new eBook and see how these virtual labs dramatically decrease costs and time commitments during your QA Testing. This eBook includes: Automated Testing w... [More]

The most dangerous IT security threats often come from within. Your own employees can be guilty of: Data theft Loss of sensitive data Malicious behaviour that disrupts your network & apps Malicious behaviour for financial gain Falling for social engineering exploits SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM) provides full visibility and proactive responses to anomalous behaviour, ... [More]