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How to Shut Down Windows 8

Yep, all Windows 8 users will need to relearn how to turn off their PCs. Microsoft hid the option in the strangest place.

How to Gear Up for Big Data

Big data can be big trouble if it isn’t handled with care. Here are some tips to make the most of that treasure trove of information.

How to Create a Better Disaster Recovery Plan

Cloud services, virtualization, mobile devices, and social networking can keep your business going when catastrophes hit. Here’s how these tech trends can help you better your DR and BCP planning.

How to Avoid the 7 Outsourcing Nightmares

Like any other major business and technology initiatives, outsourcing comes with risks, regardless of how experienced the outsourcing provider is or how good the move looked initially.

How to Prepare your Business for Digital Disaster

Enduring a flood that wipes out your production facility is worse than losing some stored baby pictures, but disaster planning is essential for individuals and businesses of all shapes and sizes.

How-to Get started with Amazon EC2

Amazon cloud skills are in high demand. This easy, step-by-step guide will help start you on your path to cloud mastery

How to Use Facebook's Open Sourced Data Center Design to Cut Costs

When Facebook open sourced its data center and server specifications it paved the way for enterprises of all sizes to save money by following the social network's radical hardware designs. The Open Compute Project Foundation has formalized Facebook's designs into specs, which are freely available. Here are tips for implementing them.

Six Business Dashboards That Help Manage Employees, Web Services

These six dashboards help IT executives make key decisions by putting data from a variety of enterprise applications and services at a CIO's fingertips so he or she can better manage employees, website activity, development projects and more.

How to Rationalize Your Application Portfolio

A majority of enterprises have hundreds of applications deployed on their network, but most tend to actively use far fewer than that. This application bloat is a significant and growing problem that costs many organizations millions of dollars a year. Here's how to combat the application sprawl.

Preparing IT for Mobile Forensic Investigations

If your IT security team must comply with regulations like PCI-DSS or HIPAA, you need to know who accesses your data and what they do with it, even if they're using a mobile device to do it. But performing forensic investigations on mobile devices is trickier than it is on PCs.

Set Up a Business-Grade Wi-Fi Network

An increasing number of devices, including the Amazon Kindle Fire and Google Nexus 7 tablets, are Wi-Fi only; this inevitably puts a strain on existing Wi-Fi networks. For businesses that are either (very) late to the Wi-Fi bandwagon or looking to overhaul an anarchic wireless infrastructure, here are several important points to consider.

How to Run Your Business in Evernote

Evernote isn't a revolution. Like most of the technology products we tend to use regularly in our daily lives, Evernote is an evolution, a collection of good ideas that rolls into a single program the functionality of a half-dozen apps you would otherwise use separately.