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•Return on Investment From Automatic Defrag
Return-on-investment (ROI) means a lot to companies, especially in economically turbulent times such as these. When an organization invests in a piece of equipment, a new advertising campaign, a property or even an employee, they are very carefully monitoring the money made back to cover the outlay and provide profit as well. Anything that doesn't fit these criteria is quickly cut loose. Because a corporation invests so heavily in IT, a sharper-than-normal eye is kept on ROI from that quarter....

•Prevent Unnecessary Hardware Upgrades
There’s nothing like having to replace something before it’s time. When a car, for example, starts breaking down four years after purchase, the owner unexpectedly has to pull together the financing for another vehicle and go through the painful lease or purchase process. Or a television goes out right in the middle of your favorite program when you fully expected it to last at least another two years. It seems nothing lasts as long as it used to—and it can be an expensive surprise. This can be...

•Increase Server Uptime With Automatic Defrag
In today’s computing environment, uptime is a critical factor. This is because information technology has slowly crept up from the supporting position it had years back—suddenly we look up and IT is not merely enhancing business operations, it in itself has become business operations. When a customer is placing an order, it is directly or nearly directly with a computer. When a shipment is received by a customer, the receiving signature is scanned and receipt is immediately confirmed through a...

•Handle Fragmentation to Mitigate Performance and Reliability Risks
Astute risk management defines success in the insurance industry. Premiums charged to the company's customers reflect that relation of risk to profit, while the riskiest ventures are avoided entirely. Translating risk to the IT world would likely bring security software solutions to mind. Endpoints, NAC, messaging, etc, all come with inherent risks. Not managing those risks can result in data loss, corporate espionage, and other nasty events. It may come as a surprise that file fragmentation...

•The Need to Minimize Maintenance Operations in Healthcare
Recent data security and retention regulatory requirements have kept healthcare IT staff busy for the past few years. With Google, Revolution Health, and Microsoft moving to expand healthcare/medical search facilities, SOA initiatives related to information sharing and accessibility are being added to the never shrinking To-Do list of those same IT departments. The future of healthcare is demanding that while employees may or may not be working around the clock, information certainly will have...

•How to Increase Your School s it Budget
The life of IT staff in the Education sector is so often focused on squeezing every last drop of life out of every hardware and software project. You need to run lean and mean, and simply can't afford indulgences or risky ventures. However, the challenges you face are no different than the corporations you pass by on the way to work every day. A recent study at the Trinity School in New York City exposed the overwhelming amount of data that the typical institution has to manage. Trinity has...

•Lack of a Data Protection Plan Vulnerability For Any Business
Be it a slip of the finger or an accidental move of a mouse, almost everyone has experienced that dreaded feeling of deleting something that we should not have. Perhaps even more astonishing, however, is the fact that such things need never happen. There is a whole class of data protection software out there which will undelete many of our most egregious and painful mistakes. The big question then, is why doesn't everyone have such software on their systems? It is generally acknowledged that...

•Make Certain Your Backup Solutions Are Complete
Backup solutions are the foundation of data protection, and the first line of defense in case of system failure or data loss of any kind. Backup solutions are the most basic protection for computer data in case of a system failure of any kind. Data is saved onto media separate from production systems so it can be retrieved if and when production systems go down, or data is lost for any reason. But there are vital tools that can, first, make sure that backups are performed in a timely manner,...