Document management is one of the main challenges of organisations. It’s storing, sharing, searches and retrieval. If the documents are not organised with a proper tool, it’s a waste of effort. More and more organisations converting their hard copy documents to document management systems. In future it will be like that. Major challenge is sharing, and retrieval. KnowledgeTree is an online document management solution. Very flexible and convenient solution.
Features:-
File Sharing and Collaboration
Secure Online Access
Search and Preview
Workflow and Document Alerts
Microsoft Office Integration & Desktop Tools
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KnowledgeTree – Online Document Management Software
2010
09.02
09.02
TreeSize Professional – Disk Space Manager
2010
08.19
08.19
TreeSize Professional is a powerful and flexible hard disk space manager for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2003/2008 (32 or 64 Bit). Find out which folders are the largest on your drives and recover megabytes on your disks. TreeSize Professional shows you the size, allocated and wasted space, the number of files, 3D charts, the last access date, the file owner and permissions, the NTFS compression rate and much more information of several folders or drives you choose. It also lets you search drives, entire servers or the entire network for old, big, temporary and duplicate files.
Main Features
• Visually track down disk usage and see the size of all folders including their subfolders and break it down to the file level.
• Several exporting and reporting possibilities: Printed report (showing the directory structure), Excel, HTML, XML, text file, clipboard.
• The integrated fully customizable file search helps you to find and archive the largest, oldest, obsolete and temporary files, e.g. invalid shortcuts or files owned by a nonexistent account.
• You can search multiple drives, entire servers and even your entire network neighbourhood. The search results can be exported, moved, deleted or passed to any executable file or script.
solarwinds Engineer’s Toolset
2010
08.11
08.11
Network troubleshooting is easy when you have the right network tools! Engineer’s Toolset delivers an advanced collection of must-have monitoring, discovery, diagnostic, and Cisco tools.
Explore the Tools
Monitoring Tools
• Network Performance Monitor
• Bandwidth Gauge
• SNMP Real-time graph
• Real-time interface monitor
• Advanced CPU Load
• CPU Usage
• Syslog server
• DHCP Scope monitor
Discovery Tools
• IP Network Browser
• Network Sonar
• MAC address discovery
• Subnet List
• DNS Audit
• Ping
• Port scanner
• Switch port mapper
• DNS / Whois resolver
• Advanced subnet calculator
Diagnostic Tools
• Enhanced ping
• Proxy ping
• DNS Analyzer
• Trace Route
• Spam Blacklist
• WAN killer
• Wake-on-LAN
• IP Address Management
• SNMP Brute force attack
• SNMP dictionary attack
• Remote TCP reset
• SNMP MIB Browser
Cisco Tools
• NetFlow real-time tool
• Config downloader
• Config editor/viewer
• Config uplaoder
• Router CPU Load
• Router password decryption
• TFTP Server
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Engineer’s Toolser v10
Aligning IT with Business Strategy
2010
08.03
08.03
Tough economic time create pressure IT capabilities. We used to hear now IT spending so much, IT department not responsive, they are not sync with business needs. Business knows the value of IT but difficult to value it or present it. It’s very challenging for CIO, to address the part.
IT defines and implement a governance process handle this situation. It meets the business expectation, customer satisfaction, proper KPI, and value of IT spending. Many organisations run IT without any proper governance. There we can see all the activities are expenses. There is no return. A serious thought and action plan highly required to tackle the issue. Improve competency, customer satisfaction, and effective use of IT resources.
Data Centre Planning Tools
2010
07.12
07.12
I have seen companies building data centre without proper calculations. It’s end up different concerns. Data centre area / size, location, cooling, power, UPS, accessibility, maintenance, scalability, etc. If we do a proper calculation and consider all the aspects of its design we can avoid such incidents. Some scenarios after completing the design / construction understand that site don’t 3 phase power source, difficulty of water in line / drain piping of CCU. Difficulty of bring or move racks / CCU / UPS / Battery pack to data centre. Difficulty to add redundant power source, or due to the area unable to fix generator. Difficult to construct solid walls. Power backups and cost of equipments.
APC providing some tools to help us in the design / planning data centre.
• Data Center Efficiency Calculator
• UPS Efficiency Comparison Calculator
• Data Center Capital Cost Calculator
• Data Center Power Sizing Calculator
• IT Equipment Cooling Calculator
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APC Tools
IT MNAGEMENT FROM YOUR SMARTPHONE
2010
07.04
07.04
How to manage IT infrastructures from smart phone? More and more companies providing smart phones to employees, to extend the reach ability, access and productivity. We can manage the infrastructure through the smart phones. It supports wide range of smart phones. Rove Mobile Admin is one of the products in this category.
Feature Summary
Manage Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange 2007, IIS, SQL Server, DHCP, DNS, Cluster Server, System Center Operation Manager, and System Center Mobile Device Manager, RSA, Lotus Domino, Novell, Oracle, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5, Citrix, HP iLO, Backup Exec and VMware Virtual Infrastructure servers, Nagios, BMC Remedy Service Desk, BMC Performance Manager Portal, Microsoft Hyper-V and create SSH/Telnet and RDP/VNC connections from your wireless handheld device or any computer.
Supported Clients
• BlackBerry smartphones
• Apple iPhone or iPod Touch devices
• Windows Mobile 6 smartphones
• Android OS 1.5+ devices
Read More: – Rove Mobile Admin
Microsoft Exchange Server Reporting Tool
2010
07.01
07.01
Exchange administrator required a tool for reporting. This gives traffic, storage, billing, mailbox content analysis, and outlook web access. Reporting tool should be very convenient, easy to use. Provide reports in various file types, agent installation not required in server, both graphical and tabular output, and individual mailbox selection. Also need to consider the costing of tool and easy to administration.
In this category I can recommend PRAMODAG. Gives all the reporting features, cost savings and easy administration. Below listed key features:-
The product is designed for simple, convenient, and effective user interaction.
• Reports come in tabular or graphical format with many configuration options to suit specific information requirements.
• Reports can be exported to different formats: HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV, RTF, MHT.
• Reports can be sent by email, published in a public folder, a Web site or to a SharePoint document library.
• Individual mailbox reports can be automatically sent to the user or manager.
• Reports options can be saved for instant access using the Favorites menu.
• Mailboxes can be selected based on various Active Directory attributes (server, OU, department…).
• Reporting period can be restricted to specific days or business hours.
• Data collection, report generation, export and publication may be automated and scheduled.
• Data repository can be an Access or SQL Server database.
Read More:- PRAMODAG
Portal & Collaboration Software
2010
06.28
06.28
Collaboration and integration is one of the primary requirements of every organisation now. It increases the productivity, single platform for communication and interaction. Employees interact in three primary ways: conversations, transactions, and collaborations. Understanding their differences is necessary to ensure the appropriate software technology is employed to meet your needs. Conversational interaction is an exchange of information and transactional interaction is an exchange of transaction entity between two or more participants, while collaborative interaction is meant for a change of collaboration entity, ex.: achievement of a shared goal.
Collaborative software is software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve their goals. Collaboration software transform the way documents and rich media are shared in order to enable more effective team collaboration.
Benefits of Collaboration:-
• Provide access to all documents and tasks securely via intranet to internal team members, based upon their roles or individual permissions
• Maintain common and individual to do lists, projects and schedules to simplify the management of group activities
• Make tasks assignments and status visible and transparent by automatically sending and receiving appropriate notifications
• Build and work a visible action plan to achieve assigned goals and objectives, helping the organization be more strategic, less reactive in overall performance
• Organize and coordinate work effort, with reduced slip-ups, mistakes, errors due to miss-communication or verbal direction
Different products available in the market in collaboration segment. LIFERAY is one of the open source portal & collaboration solution. LIFERAY delivers open source enterprise solutions for portals, publishing, content and collaboration. Some high level features:-
1. Wikis
2. Message Boards
3. Blogs
4. Activity tracking
5. Instant Message
6. E-Mail
7. Shared Calendar
8. Announcements & Alerts
9. Polls
10. Document Library & Image Gallery
11. Integration with Microsoft office
12. Search & Tagging
Read More:- LIFERAY
Mobile Workers Security
2010
06.22
06.22
The increasing importance of mobile workers in today’s businesses has been acknowledged. The mobile worker population is split into three main segments, home-based mobile workers, office-based mobile workers and non-office-based mobile workers.
Organisations should develop a proactive policy and strategy that embraces new ideas and methods to create a secure mobile workplace. “Secure mobility” is typically defined as the ability to provide employees and customers with secure “anytime, anywhere, any device” access to the corporate network.
One typical security problem that remote users may encounter is the transfer of viruses or other malware via memory cards or sync connections from infected mobile devices to laptops. Then, when infected laptops plug into a corporate network, there is the potential of further infection of internal corporate resources, possibly causing substantial damage to valuable and sensitive information. However, this is not the only security problem affecting mobile devices. The loss of data privacy that can result from a misplaced, stolen, or improperly used phone can also severely compromise corporate information.
Educate employees to use only devices that are provided by company. There are technologies to prevent unauthorised access to the network. For example, Network Admission Control (NAC) enforces policy for remote devices connecting to the corporate network, and Wireless detection devices Install wireless detection technology on your wireless networks to monitor unauthorised wireless users and the deployment of rogue access points.
There are technologies to prevent compromise of the endpoint: Client Security Software’s, Host-based Intrusion Detection/Prevention Software (IDS/IPS), and Anti-Spywares. There are technologies to prevent information loss or data loss or exposure to information: Data Encryption, and Information/Data Leak Prevention (ILP / DLP) software’s. Monitor compliance with your organisation’s mobile policy
Benefits of Mobile workers:-
1. Improved employee productivity.
2. Eliminating traditional work boundaries and creating a more flexible workspace.
3. Improved client interactions.
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