Micromanaging your second-tier managers is a sure-fire way to cause frustration and resentment. Use these five tips to balance the task of managing managers.
Being an IT manager isn't a very attractive proposition at the moment. With lots of pressure and little room for failure, it is hard to find an upside.
Microsoft on Tuesday said it released an updated test version of one of its main management software products.
Team members may have personal problems, annoying habits or struggle with tasks. How should IT managers approach these issues?
Difficult team members, excessive workloads and project overload--Australia's IT professionals are grappling with how to cope with doing more tasks, in less time with shrinking resources.
There's only one thing better than a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager: a convenient scorecard for measuring your performance as a storage manager that also lets you think about Billie Piper or John Barrowman a lot.
Convincing people of the importance of regular backups and a proper data management plan is a bit like persuading them of the necessity of regular visits to the dentist no-one bothers until they wake up in the morning screaming with pain. But if you can't persuade them with pain, sex often works a treat.
Getting executive sponsorship for any kind of data clean-up project isn't easy. If careful reasoning, detailed budget plans and a touch of blackmail don't work, then there may be a simpler solution: arson.
My rant earlier this year about the uselessness of Microsoft's ActiveSync synchronisation manager appeared to strike a chord with readers, and unfortunately that's a gong that Microsoft appears determined to keep banging.
In the 21st century, if we don't like our political leaders, we endlessly whine about them on blogs. In the Czech Republic, historically a simpler solution was frequently used: throw the offending individuals out the window. Storage managers can learn something from this.
Micromanaging your second-tier managers is a sure-fire way to cause frustration and resentment. Use these five tips to balance the task of managing managers.
Budgetary tussles, difficult team members, approaching deadlines--Australian CIOs are under growing pressure to manage their departments.
Enterprises may be aware of the legal changes which have modified torts law and imposed caps on payouts for seemingly outrageous claims against doctors and other professionals. But do IT pros realise that they too could be in the firing line?
Being a Microsoft or Java fanatic may be admirable in some IT roles. IT development management isn't one of them.
Communication skills, a technical background and the ability to communicate are all touted as important qualities for team managers to possess. What skills do you think are key to being a good IT manager?
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Patrick Gelsinger, senior VP of the company's digital enterprise group, speaks about advances the Nehalem processor would bring to power management. And Rajesh Kumar, an Intel fellow, explains
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...
At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Symantec CEO John Thompson talks about three security trends he believes will significantly impact the tech industry in the years to come. He predicts that malicious software will outnumber legitimate software; identity management will grow far beyond the enterprise; and digital-rights management will become...
Jason Zander, general manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft explains where Micrsoft draws the line between developers and designers and how this affect their development tools.
Many datacentres and organisations are wasting energy on equipment that is plugged in but not in use. This is poor asset management, says Simon Mingay, research VP, Gartner. Energy consumption can be reduced by between five to 10 percent without investing a single cent, he says.
Want to defragment every Windows NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003 computer on your network automatically from a single installation on your machine? Check out this cost-effective and scaleable solution.
Security patches are a big worry: they come out at odd times, they suck up your bandwidth, and just occasionally they break things. We look at patch management packages to ease the burden.
Chipmaker will release its "LaGrande" security technology in the second half of the year with the launch of its second-generation vPro business desktop technology.
Cost aside, GoToMyPC 6.0 is a great service. It is extremely easy to install, has great features and most importantly, it just works.
RMIT IT Test Labs take a look at the top enterprise applications for stopping viruses from ravaging your organisation.
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