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Business travel can be stressful and exhausting, but seasoned road warriors know a thing or two about minimizing the hassles and making trips go smoothly. This guide rounds up advice from professionals who travel regularly on business. The contents in the PDF include eight tips to reduce the stress of business travel, tips to stop ...
If you’re hoping to jump into the field of software development, this TechRepublic Premium guide is a good place to start. It offers information on current salaries, key skills and which programming languages will help you get your foot in the door. Featured text from the guide: WHY IS THERE INCREASED DEMAND FOR DEVELOPERS? Every ...
If you work in a small- to medium-sized office, you probably don’t give a lot of thought to Active Directory replication. After all, the replication process happens automatically without any configuration on your part. As the size of the network increases, however, replication becomes a more pressing issue. In this guide from TechRepublic Premium, you ...
It’s essential that cybersecurity professionals understand the risks associated with brute force attacks. Read this guide from TechRepublic Premium to find out what you need to know about this classic form of cybersecurity attack, how safe you may (or may not) be and how to defend your systems against brute force attacks. Featured text from ...
When you think of virtual private networks, chances are pretty good your thoughts go to the tried and true VPNs of old, which made it possible for you to securely connect to your company network (from a remote location) such that your local computer behaved as if it were within the company LAN. This concise ...
Cryptocurrency is a popular technological worldwide trend. As with any investing avenue, the revenue one can make dealing in cryptocurrency can vary depending on the time put into the endeavors, market fluctuation, choice of investments, available capital, how loss averse you are, your short- and long-term strategies and other traditional investment factors. Be forewarned, scams ...
The practical implementation of effective backup solutions can be overwhelmed by jargon and cryptic terminology. This quick glossary, written by Mark W. Kaelin for TechRepublic Premium, can help you understand these concepts and provide a framework for learning to master the art of data backup procedures and solutions. Featured definition from the glossary: Multiplexing The ...
The job of the system admin is never done. Security, software rollouts, updates, user management, network I/O, you name it, and the admin has to do it. All those duties can bog the admin down during their day. When one thing goes wrong, all other things might get shoved to the side. Linux admins have ...
Hiring and retaining capable help desk personnel and support technicians are challenges for any organization. Support staff require both technical knowledge and communication skills if they’re to succeed in the role, yet technically competent and polished communicators are often recruited by multiple companies at once or quickly move into other positions within the firms where ...
Establishing connectivity between a main office and a branch office, could be likened to solving a Rubik’s Cube. At first it seems like a really simple task. But after examination, it is a much more complex undertaking. Like a Rubik’s Cube, though, it is possible to solve the branch networking puzzle with the help of ...