In no uncertain terms, the use of predictive analytics is crucial for SMBs to remain competitive. A recent survey revealed that companies that rate themselves substantially ahead of their peers in their use of data are three times more likely to rate…

Business intelligence (BI) is not just for big corporations. In higher education, colleges and universities of all sizes rely on BI solutions to analyze data from multiple sources and deliver reports that help streamline administration and improve st…

A new release of LiteSpeed for SQL Server will be out on August 4, 2014. Here's a quick preview of all the new features and enhancements. More detailed blog posts to follow: Updated user-interface The “ribbon” replaces the old menu...

From large enterprises to small businesses, organizations today generally recognize the range of opportunities and potential benefits they can achieve by analyzing big data. Whether the plan is to draw from social media posts to create targeted marke…

If you’re using an older version of Novell® GroupWise® for messaging and collaboration, you’re probably wondering if you should upgrade to the latest version or just transition everything to Office 365. Office 365 certainly has a …

In Virtual Standby with AppAssure - Part 1:Creating a Virtual Standby I demonstrated how to create a Virtual Standby VM. This blog is part 2 and shows how to properly test the VM and the little tricks that you should know. On...

We are starting a BETA testing cycle in August 2014 for our upcoming Foglight for Storage Management v3.2 release. This next release will include the following new features: Support for HP 3PAR storage arrays Deployment via VMWare virtual appliance …

Earlier today I posted about how AppAssure does archives. Today we released AppAssure 5.4.2, and this release provides several improvements to the AppAssure's archive capabilities.  Incremental archive: Ability to add incremental recov...

I get asked this question a lot. What is AppAssure? Since I won't be at the Dell User Forum this year, I thought I'd write out what I usually tell people when I'm asked to explain about what AppAssure does. This is going to be the first i...

ITNinja, Kace Konnect, and Kace UserVoice are all great ways to get involved. With thousands of users, and countless posts, tips, blogs, conversations, and much more – you’re sure to find value for you and your organization. ITNinja

Couple of days ago, a very critical OpenSSL vulnerability came to light. The vulnerability, called Heartbleed, affects some versions of the OpenSSL library (but not all of them).  The vulnerability was introduced in the OpenSSL version 1.0.1 and...

I am providing details on how to create a custom report on Notes Migrator for SharePoint. I will show what software needs to be installed and how I start to create a report. I believe that readers will find it easy to create reports if they have simi…