IT professionals

Whitewater from Riverbed automates backup for enterprises into Windows Azure. Azure Architect Evangelist Allan Naim talks with Riverbed Marketing Director Bob Gilbert about Riverbed's decision to support Windows Azure for their Whitewater backup appliance.Bob explains why Riverbed selected Windows…

Many of you use Sysinternals tools to help you manage computing responsibilities ranging from monitoring/understanding process activity with Process Explorer to debugging Win32 code with DebugView. With over 70 utilities to choose from, Sysinternals tools cover a wide swath of…

Thanks to a tweet from Microsoft MVP Alvin Ashcraft, I’ve discovered a new tool that almost makes me want to return to I.T. (OK, not really, but it’s still cool): RDCMan. This updated Remote Desktop management program is an improvement upon the Remote Desktops MMC Snap-in which I used exclusively…

CionSystems currently hosts active directory aministration tools on Windows Server 2008 R2 in IIS on premises. CTO Zubair Ansari talks with ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle about how the company plans to support for Active Directory Federated Services 2 and the move to hosted AD…

SARANGSoft lights up an application that streamlines the work of IT Pros for maintaining Active Directory and networked assets. The software, SysExpertez, is written in Windows Presentation Foundation and lights up jump lists in Windows 7.SysExpertez helps an IT System Manager / Administrator…

Datacastle provides a way for businesses to protect vulnerable data with backup, recovery, encryption, and even data shredding if laptops might be lost or stolen. The data protection server console manage protection is both on premises and hosted in Windows Azure. It also includes a Web…

RES Software uses SQL Azure to offer cloud storage for user desktop configurations. The company also offers on premises storage options. In this video ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle talks with CTO Bob Janssen about how and why they company offers both SQL Azure and SQL Server…

Since Internet Explorer 8 made its beta debut, there has been much talk about its new features, a lot of which lately has centered on Web Slices – those bits of code that allow for interactive bookmarks that pop-up small windows of live web content within your browser window. But while Web Slices…

AppDeploy Repackager is a free tool for IT professionals that packages apps for deployment with just the click of the button. Although still in beta, the tool has already become an invaluable resource to many IT pros looking for an easy way to package apps for enterprise deployment. Unlike other…

From Enterprise Mobile, there comes an application for Windows Mobile users that allows you to troubleshoot network connections right from your Windows Mobile device. The app is called the Windows Mobile IP Utility and it lets you run the following commands: ping, trace route, ping sweep (ping a…