Info-Tech Advisor Newsletter articles from January 2000

Info-Tech Advisor Newsletter archives from January 2000

Retention Strategy: Don't Let the Good Ones Get Away.
January 11, 2000... Sources: An Info-Tech Research Group Feature Article In a red hot IT job market, developing and retaining talented staff is a major challenge for the IT manager. For our special feature on retention, Info-Tech looked at a range of resources...

Lessons Learned From The Largest Project In IT History.
January 11, 2000... Sources: CIO Magazine, Computerworld, Cutter Consortium, Datamation The lessons learned from Y2K are too valuable to ignore. With other long-delayed projects banging at the door, you may feel that there is no time to sit and reflect on Y2K....

Maximize Intranet Value -- Tell Them About It!
January 11, 2000... Sources: CIO Web Business Magazine Your intranet can have real business value as the consolidation point for mission critical information and network-based tools. That potential will be lost, however, if you don't market it effectively. As...

Turn Outlook Into A Personal Portal.
January 11, 2000... Sources: Microsoft, TechWeb Article, ComputerWorld Free tools from Microsoft can turn Microsoft Outlook into an "information appliance for knowledge workers." Through "Digital Dashboards," you can consolidate your investment in Outlook...

Thanks For The Memory - A RAM Survival Guide.
January 11, 2000... Sources: A TechRepublic Article The PC RAM market is poised to get complicated in 2000. With new competing technologies entering the market, such as Direct Rambus, IT managers could end up facing an incompatible array of memory types over...

Clinic: How to Buy an OLAP Product.
January 11, 2000... Sources: The OLAP Report Web Site Turning mounds of data into usable information has never been easier since the arrival of OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing). From an IT perspective, OLAP is a dream come true since it transfers the...

A More Secure DNS = A More Secure Internet.
January 11, 2000... Sources: A Network Magazine Article Domain Name System (DNS) - the cornerstone of the Internet infrastructure - is not secure. This is scary news considering that the Internet has morphed into a massive and dynamic marketplace where trust...

XML Tools Given the Open Source Treatment.
January 11, 2000... Sources: XML.Apache.org, CNet News, Network Magazine The majority of Web servers in use on the Internet run on Apache Web server software. Like the Linux operating system, Apache was cooperatively developed as an open source project. The...

E-2000: E-business Tops the IT Agenda.
January 11, 2000... Sources: Beyond Computing Magazine A brand new year means new projects, and e-business is leading the 2000 agenda. A recent survey from Advantage Business Research has found that many corporate and IT managers plan to charge ahead with...

TechFest Bursting With Tech Resources.
January 11, 2000... Sources: TechFest.com Web Site Bookmark the TechFest.com Web site right now and you won't be sorry. Although the home page looks a little scant at first glance, just click on any of the links. What you'll find behind this simple front is a...

Disaster Planning More Critical than Ever.
January 11, 2000... Sources: NetworkMagazine.com, Smart Computing, Arthur Andersen Disaster planning. The bottom line is that it's one of the smartest business investments your company can make. It's even smarter still if you've stepped foot into the dynamic,...

Never Be Stumped by an Acronym Again!
January 11, 2000... Sources: NetworkMagazine.com, Smart Computing, Arthur Andersen You may have noticed that IT is an acronym-happy discipline. To help you combat the alphabet soup that is IT, Mountain Data Systems, Inc. offers you their Acronym Finder....

The Skinny On Thin Clients For Win2K.
January 11, 2000... Sources: Thin2000 Web Site The imminent release of the Windows 2000 OS will feature fully integrated Terminal Services, formally known as Terminal Server, which will support enterprise-wide deployment of thin client computing. If you're...

Something For All You Unix System Administrators Out There...
January 11, 2000... Sources: Unix Sysadm Resources Unix often gets overshadowed by all the Windows NT/2000 hype, but when it comes to reliability, scalability, and robust processing power, just about everybody in the IT world knows that Unix is the way to go....

Pack Multiple NT Servers In One AS/400.
January 25, 2000... Sources: Information Week Online Article and IBM Corp. Web Site With add-in technology from IBM, you can turn an AS/400 system into the functional equivalent of one or more NT Servers. First introduced in 1997 as Integrated PC Server, the...

Clear-cut Navigation A Good Web Investment.
January 25, 2000... Sources: Useit.com, webpagesthatsuck.com, and ClickZ.com Web Sites "Web design is not about art, it is about making money. To make money you don't design a site that might confuse somebody. You want your visitors to quickly find what...

Will Your Applications Work on Windows 2000?
January 25, 2000... Sources: Internet Week Article and Microsoft Web Site The late rollout of Microsoft's Windows 2000 certification program provides IT managers with yet another reason to delay deployment of the long-awaited operating system. When Win2K...

Keep Your Encryption Keys In A Safe Place.
January 25, 2000... Sources: Computerworld Article and nCipher Inc. White Paper Take note if you're involved in e-commerce - the private key upon which your entire e-commerce security and privacy strategy rests could be vulnerable to theft. * To ensure...

After the Hype: The Real Value of Thin Client Computing.
January 25, 2000... Sources: Aberdeen Group White Paper Just over a year ago, they were destined to take over the world. PCs would be pushed off desktops everywhere by cheaper -- and cheaper maintain -- network-based thin clients. The revolution lost steam...

Get the Most Out of Focus Groups.
January 25, 2000... Sources: Tri-Media Article A focus group is an in-depth feedback mechanism for evaluating your IT product, service, or technical resource. It is more than just a circle of randomly selected individuals invited to chew the fat about your...

Secure Against Malicious Java and ActiveX Code.
January 25, 2000... Sources: Network Magazine Article "Microsoft's ActiveX components and Java applet technology...[have] serious implications for changing the overall nature of prevailing malicious code types." - Arabella Hallawell, Gartner Group Mobile...

Build Certification Into Your IT Training Plan.
January 25, 2000... Sources: Datamation, NetworkWorldFusion, and Windows NT Magazine Articles Certification training, though not a "cure-all" or substitute for hands on experience, can be an effective place to put IT training dollars. Certified staff can...

A "Real Option" for Getting Your IT Investments Approved! (1).
January 25, 2000... Sources: CIO Magazine, PCWeek Online, and CFO Magazine Articles In today's business economy, IT investment decisions play an increasingly important role in shaping corporate strategy. Unfortunately, return on investment (ROI), and other...

A Source for That Hard-to-Find Device Driver.
January 25, 2000... Sources: Driverguide.com Web Site Device driver diskettes and CDs are hard to find when you desperately need them. When recovering a system from a crash, upgrading an operating system, or installing an older device with drivers that are...

Open Source Book Provides Linux Answers.
January 25, 2000... Sources: LinuxWorld Web Site Publisher IDG Books is applying the open source paradigm to the creation of a comprehensive guidebook on the planning, installation, and operation of the Linux operating system. The Essential Linux Open...

Handy Assessment Tools For Your Tech Training Program.
January 25, 2000... Sources: TechRepublic Web Site Training programs should be regularly evaluated with the ultimate goal of constant improvement in mind. You can't expect staff performance to improve if your training program is missing the mark. *...

DSL: Everything You Need to Know.
January 25, 2000... Sources: DSLReports.com and NetworkWorld Fusion Web Sites If you are new to Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), or you are trying to choose the best DSL provider for your company or for your home, visit DSL Reports. You will find: * Pages...

Get Your Tax Return Fast: File On-Line.
January 25, 2000... Sources: A PC World Article, and Internal Revenue Service and Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Web Sites According to Forrester Research, the number of tax returns prepared online this year will be double the year before. The following...