Securing Laptops, check out this eWEEK slideshow

Here's a good one for your IT folks.

Always a concern, letting the field force loose with laptops holding all kinds of confidential data. How to protect the data on these enterprise assets? This eWEEK slideshow provides a nice refresher plus some alternatives like Biometric Protection. And of course "have a central security administrator be able to wipe clean or completely disable the device if it's lost, stolen or falls into the wrong hands".

Here's the eWEEK slideshow.

Rove sponsoring Ottawa Windows Server User Group meeting tonight

See you all at Microsoft HQ here in Ottawa. We're looking forward to the presentation on PowerShell and at the end there will be a draw for a full one year subscription to Rove Mobile Admin ProPlus!

How many servers can you manage?

Just reading my daily dose of IT News and Info and can’t help but feel for the IT Admins who are stretched to the max. In CIO Insight's Trends Slideshow "Five CIOs Set Their Priorities for 2010", one CIO’s priority is Resource Optimization – i.e. stretching IT assets to the max including IT staff, hardware and software. On Data Center Knowledge, there’s a discussion about how many servers can each sysadmin be expected to manage. This one has many interesting comments relating to the types of servers and breadth of applications they provide. We'd like to hear about what you're managing, especially the things that make your admin life absolutely crazy.