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​Think Before You Wipe: Destroying Mobile Data Is Just One Option for Missing Devices

Modern day organizations provide employees the flexibility to work from anywhere around the office, ​ such as the workstation, cafeteria, or meeting rooms. When employees use mobile devices to do work, they will store data on them. And, when employees move around with these devices, ​ there is a fair chance a few of the devices will get lost

Worrying Doesn’t Keep IT Problems Away. Good Tools Do!

Free tools to quickly troubleshoot your way and stay on top of IT Love them or hate them, but you cannot ignore them. Surprises, pleasant or otherwise, are a way of life for a s ysadmin. The degree of surprise however determines how the rest of the day turns out for the sysadmin

ServiceDesk Plus in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2014 : All the Assurance You Need

For the second consecutive year, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus is featured as a niche player in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2014 for IT Service Support Management (ITSSM) Tools*. We believe this shows our commitment to provide the best-in-class help desk solution to our customers.

Overcoming Virtualization Management Challenges with VM Manager Plus

Server  virtualization  has become a widely-adopted technology in data centers. The a bility to share all the available resources across various virtual machines ( VMs ) makes server  virtualization  highly  scalable  and efficient, which helps to  reduce  opex .  Apparently,  Gartner  found  more than 50 percent of overall servers in the world are  virtualized . By 2015, that share will increase to 75 percent

​Maximize Your Application Performance to Ensure Successful Business Outcomes – September 9, Forrester Webinar

Join  Forrester   and  ManageEngine   on a free, one-hour  webinar  that will help you discover ways to unlock the true prowess of application monitoring. Learn how to fully leverage the capabilities your APM tool to give your business that much-needed boost. John  Rakowski ,  Forrester’s  leading analyst and  advisor  working with infrastructure and operations professionals, will be the keynote presenter.  John has been helping IT leaders and their teams understand the business value of service management, develop their strategies, evaluate and select vendor tools, and implement service management processes

My iCloud Password is “iCloud”

I guess the editor at  MCP  Magazine who fired me for talking about  passphrases  and ways to secure your passwords is looking rather foolish at this point. Years and years ago, I wrote an article on securing passwords – only to be told that I was out of touch with reality when I suggested that everyone needed to use more secure passwords.  With the latest attack on the  iCloud  due to weak and pathetic passwords, you’d think that ​  the attack’s victims would have appreciated learning the password strategies I was advocating 10 years ago! Apple now is saying that it is not their fault that the nude pictures of so many celebrities were obtained from their cloud storage ​ .   Does that mean that the weak questions for  iCloud  password recovery aren’t their responsibility either?  I truly hope that this latest attack on the  iCloud  opens the eyes of everyone who uses social media, social networking, centralized cloud storage, and other online resources