Kenneth Hess

In the first week of September last year, I explained, Why You Need a Fuller Data Center and challenged you to partake in some data center minimizing

Mobility and agility are the two key concepts for the new decade of computing innovation. At the epicenter of this new enabled computing trend is cloud

Data Deduplicationsounds like an excellent candidate for an HGTV reality show — companies drowning in a sea of redundant data receive a visit from

You've thought it but you didn't say anything. You know it's an ugly baby but your sense of decency prevents you from saying what you're really thinking.

Can you save money by converting from a physical to a virtual infrastructure? Yes. Can you do it without spending any money? No. Can you do it without

It might seem odd for a Linux and open source pundit to try to convince you it's possible to operate your Windows environment frugally, but I have a

When it comes to operating systems, are you tired of taking what's thrown at you? It's funny how operating system vendors believe that "one size fits

Did you ever notice how computer geeks always have the coolest gadgets, leading-edge electronics and mini data centers in their basements? Do you wonder

When perusing my local dead tree Sunday newspaper's Business section, I came across the headline, Frugality pays off: Avoiding debt looks smart for area

Do you have several employees with salaries approaching or breaching the six-figure mark and carry service contracts on your hardware assets? Consider

Ah yes, there's that all too familiar sound of tightening budgets and the tossing aside of those things perceived as non-essential. Training's death knell

You're probably in that middle ground somewhere between needing to save money on your in-house IT services and outsourcing the whole thing to an external