From troubleshooting application errors and managing your company's network to handling remote users and securing your data, IT sup- port professionals face a wide variety of challenges. TechRepublic's 500 Things Every IT Support Pro Needs To Know: Volume 1 helps you meet these challenges, and more.
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Build an IT budget that helps you manage tech spending all year and makes future budgets easier to create. CIO Keith Faigin shares 10 practical suggestions, along with a timesaving template.
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If you set up your IT budget the right way now, you can manage spending all year -- and save a lot of time and effort when next year's budgeting chores roll around. This Excel template includes tabs t...
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Keeping track of vendor contract support renewals can be tedious. Whether companies renew such contracts all at once, or throughout the year, there are techniques to simplify the task.
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Digital information has never been so portable -- and so much at risk. Ed Bott explains how Windows encryption can protect your valuable data even if a device falls into the wrong hands.
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Determining how and when to renew support contracts can be tedious and time-consuming. Download the Tech Pro Research Vendor contract renewal planner to schedule support renewals and budget the relate...
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Security concerns, budgets, trends and future plans were the focus of a recent Tech Pro Research survey.
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Learn about the top concerns and challenges in IT security in the latest Tech Pro Research research report Tech Pro Research conducted the online survey in October 2013 to find out what the top securi...
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Small businesses can benefit from the current big data rush. With hard work and a little luck, companies can profit from the onslaught of data.
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Social media and web interactions are now standard procedures for customer-engaged companies and their employees. Blogs, website comments, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ are several examples ...
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This compact feature grid shows how six popular business-class cloud storage services stack up.
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The biggest names in online productivity suites are Google Apps and Office 365. Determine the costs of each using a comparison toolkit.
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A majority of companies do not have a BYOD policy in place, but they're at risk as workers bring more mobile devices to the workplace.
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Software-defined networking (SDN) is a new concept for many, as confirmed by a recent TechRepublic survey. In this report, find out who is using SDN, why they plan to implement it, and the results the...
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As more technologies become available, they become more accessible and cheaper for small and medium-sized businesses to obtain, as evidenced by a TechRepublic survey.
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Our global survey reveals that developing new business opportunities and improving existing processes/products are key decision drivers for M2M implementation.
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IT leaders have shared their opinions in TechRepublic's enterprise software survey, which focuses on satisfaction levels, top vendors, current trends, and future plans for EAS.
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TechRepublic’s BYOD Business Strategy Survey reveals that 62 percent of companies either already have Bring Your Own Device allowances in place, or plan to by the end of 2013.
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Choosing between VDI or PC is something more companies are facing with the growing popularity of virtual desktop infrastructure. Use Tech Pro Research's toolkit to help with the decision-making proces...
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Based on ZDNet/TechRepublic research, there are growing expectations that data analytics and big data will have a major impact on businesses’ performance in the next two years.
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Determining how much energy a server consumes can be a fine art. Learn how to get started using TechRepublic’s Server Energy Consumption Calculator.
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The biggest names in online productivity suites are Google Apps and Office 365. Determine the costs of each using a comparison toolkit.
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A majority of companies do not have a BYOD policy in place, but they're at risk as workers bring more mobile devices to the workplace.
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Software-defined networking (SDN) is a new concept for many, as confirmed by a recent TechRepublic survey. In this report, find out who is using SDN, why they plan to implement it, and the results the...
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As more technologies become available, they become more accessible and cheaper for small and medium-sized businesses to obtain, as evidenced by a TechRepublic survey.
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Our global survey reveals that developing new business opportunities and improving existing processes/products are key decision drivers for M2M implementation.
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IT leaders have shared their opinions in TechRepublic's enterprise software survey, which focuses on satisfaction levels, top vendors, current trends, and future plans for EAS.
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TechRepublic’s BYOD Business Strategy Survey reveals that 62 percent of companies either already have Bring Your Own Device allowances in place, or plan to by the end of 2013.
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Choosing between VDI or PC is something more companies are facing with the growing popularity of virtual desktop infrastructure. Use Tech Pro Research's toolkit to help with the decision-making proces...
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Based on ZDNet/TechRepublic research, there are growing expectations that data analytics and big data will have a major impact on businesses’ performance in the next two years.
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Determining how much energy a server consumes can be a fine art. Learn how to get started using TechRepublic’s Server Energy Consumption Calculator.
