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Remote DBA: Doing More With Less

The management, security and availability of mission-critical data are vital to all organizational processes across all businesses. The quality of database management can be linked, ultimately, to customer satisfaction. Bottlenecks that lead to breaches in security or system down-time can be disastrous to a relationship with a customer. For such reasons, companies turn to remote DBA as an effective way of managing its increasingly important data and information resources.

By leveraging database outsourcing through a remote database administrator (remote DBA),

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Virtualisation & Power: Is Less More

Enhanced efficiency, greater productivity, less wastage, less floor and rack space… virtualisation carries all manner of undisputed, wellpublicised headline benefits, and there is never a shortage of providers happy to tell you all about them (as well as its range of environmental, disaster recovery, and business continuity pay-offs.)

What’s far less talked about however, are the inefficiencies that can result if the physical infrastructure that supports a virtualised one isn’t properly optimised – or indeed the substantial benefits that can arise if

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Even More Things the Computer Savvy Independent Consultant Should Know

As an independent consultant, the personal computer should be your friend or perhaps even one of your best friends. If it helps you to become more productive, make more money, and make your life easier, it can certainly merit the description.

However, to keep it friendly, you have to be a friend to it. You have to consistently take the steps to keep it running fast and efficiently, keep it free for us from viruses and spyware, and then use shortcuts in your frequently used programs to enhance your personal productivity and efficiency.

Here are some steps to keeping your

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