Cynthia Harvey

Think no one knows what you do at work? Think again. New technology makes it easy for your boss to track your every move, and more employers install surveillance equipment every year. According to the National Workrights Institute, 67 percent of employers electronically monitored their employees in 1999. By 2001, that number jumped to 78 […]

America might be the land of the free, but the Internet holds the crown as the land of the “FREE!” Tens of thousands of sites offer free apps, free utilities, free wallpaper, and more. Unfortunately, a lot of that free stuff is worth exactly what you pay for it. However, if you look closely, you […]

In its first year on the ballot, AdRem Software’s NetCrunchhandily defeated the other candidates in the Network and Systems Management category of Datamation’s 2007 Product of the Year awards. Key features of NetCrunch include network monitoring, server monitoring, and customizable network maps that can be securely accessed through a Web browser. AdRem prides itself on […]

It’s a problem so pervasive that some IT managers have started calling it the “After-Christmas Syndrome”: every January and February, workers who received new gadgets flood IT departments with requests for network access. Unfortunately, a surprisingly high number of companies don’t have policies in place for dealing with personal mobile devices. And an even higher […]

The experts have consulted their crystal balls and made their predictions about the IT job market for 2007. The consensus? This year, employers will likely be hiring more IT workers and paying their current workers a little more. The outlook is especially rosy for a few hot job titles and industries. More Jobs for EveryoneThe […]

Since 1994, the Internet Engineering Task Force has been warning of a shortage of IP addresses. Fortunately, the Task Force came up with a solution, known as Internet Protocol Version 6, or IPv6. Unfortunately, U.S. organizations have been very slow to transition to the new technology. However, Microsoft’s new Windows Vista operating system may help […]

When it comes time to market Vista to consumers, Microsoft will no doubt tout its flashy new interface and greatly improved media capabilities. But those features matter much less to the IT managers who are the target of Microsoft’s November 30 release for business users. Instead, they’re betting that decidedly un-flashy features like security, search, […]

At what point does a “standardized” solution become “the industry standard”? Simon Crosby, CTO at XenSource, has begun calling Xen the “de facto standard” hypervisor for virtualization—despite the fact that enterprise-ready Xen solutions have spent just months in the market and as yet have virtually no market share. Those with less monetary interest in its […]