Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization

Did you know it's possible to cut IT costs without impacting day-to-day IT operations? In fact, when you download this white paper from Riverbed on cost-savings through WAN optimization, you’ll discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months through significant hard cost savings in areas such as bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation. It's called Extreme Savings and it’s only from Riverbed.

The $300 Setup Challenge

Buying a Mac isn’t an inexpensive proposition. For the most part, it’s a price Mac users are willing to bear for a sleek, well-designed, powerful system that’s relatively free of viruses and other Windows annoyances. But just because you can afford a Mac doesn’t mean you’ve got money burning a hole in your pocket. Luckily for you, there’s a bounty of great low-cost Mac software waiting to be plucked.

The $300 telecommuter challenge

"No man is an island," John Donne famously wrote--but Donne predated the era of telecommuting by almost four centuries. As someone who lives on the other side of the country from most of my colleagues, I spend almost all my time working from home or the comfort of a coffee shop. And while I'm not exactly an island, I do have to be a self-sufficient outpost, equipped to work as effectively as if I were just sitting down the hall from my boss.

Automated Tool Tracks Business Hardware and Software

If you can lovingly call your small- or medium-sized business IT department "scrappy"--maybe you're both company president and network administrator--the right tools can make the most of your resources. Inventory auditing software can keep track of company hardware and software without taking your time from other tasks. You'll be able to keep track of assets, plus you'll gain valuable troubleshooting clues, such as an always-current list of software version numbers.

Dell, HP back Microsoft in Word legal battle

Dell and HP, the world's two largest computer makers, have sided with Microsoft in its appeal of a ban that would block Word sales in the U.S.

China Mobile shows Dell, Lenovo 'Ophones'

China Mobile displayed smart phones from Dell, Lenovo Mobile and other companies running its mobile operating system at a Beijing event on Monday.