David Howell

Every small business knows that data is the life-blood of their enterprises. But does your business have a digital IQ?

Explained Businesses today use LANs and WANs, but are these optimised to work together in harmony?

In Depth Starting an online business may appear to be child's play, but choosing the right server to support the store is vital.

In Depth There are several questions to ask when deciding which solution is best for the job.

In Depth Issues such as applications, screen sizes, storage capacity and ergonomics need to be considered.

Methods for ensuring that the email server isn't the point of a breach.

Sponsored: How to cut down on the bottlenecks

Sponsored: It's possible to make a company's desktops more flexible

Sponsored: Think about the nature of your data, your firewall policy and intrusion detection

Sponsored: Six key questions can help to provide a better performance

Sponsored: VM deployment is not a 'once and forget' exercise

Sponsored: There are lot of benefits in quick reactions to changing workloads

Sponsored: Benefits include lower costs, reduced risk and more flexibility

Sponsored: IT managers need to develop a bespoke approach for their own installations.

Sponsored: A step that can improve the performance of virtual machines.

Sponsored: Dealing with the fragmentation of installed memory is a major issue.

It can help with unpredictable workloads, so think about the number of users, the speed of data and flexibility.

It's a strategic and commercial asset that any company should take seriously

IT managers moving to virtualisation should pay close attention to the Windows 8 offer

Businesses have to weigh up how the pros and cons apply to their own activities.

Latest release offers more features to compete with Windows Server 2012 and VMWare

When space is at a premium, blade servers can deliver efficiency gains and lower costs

There are legitimate channels, but beware of deals that look too good to be true

Choosing the right server configuration is an important decision to get right, but what are your options?

With data expanding at an exponential rate, solid state could offer IT managers a cost effective and scalable long term solution.