Dealing With Workplace Stress

Knowledge workers often think they don’t face health and safety issues, says one expert, but when you make your living with your brain, you have to take care of it. Unmanaged stress can lead to physical and mental malaise, decreased productivity and worse. Occupational health professionals detail how to stay your happiest and healthiest.

By Briony Smith | 18 March, 2009 10:54

Tags: it careers, stress

Five tips for managing Microsoft SharePoint Server

Microsoft SharePoint Server implementations can get ugly.

By Briony Smith | 28 November, 2008 07:21

Tags: microsoft sharepoint

Sitemasher to reduce developers' cutting, pasting

Web site development service Sitemasher went live Monday with a new service geared toward making developers' lives a little easier.

By Briony Smith | 10 October, 2008 10:01

Tags: web development

ISV creates open-source alternative to Twitter

Wikitravel and Certifi.ca founder Evan Prodromou launched last week an open-source microblogging tool that will give users -- including those in the enterprise -- an alternative to industry leader Twitter.

Intel: Disasters only happen if you let them

Disaster recovery and business continuity is somewhat of a misnomer, it turns out, according to Intel, which has set up a complex internal system of ongoing business continuity planning that render disaster recovery more like business as usual.

BI software fights crime, saves little old ladies

Business intelligence isn't just for crunching numbers for big scary corporations: it's being used by public servants to keep communities safe and happy.

Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel

Media processing vendor Pika Technologies announced Friday that its Warp appliance line is customer-ready and ready to slay the Nortels and Ciscos of the world in a bid for the small to mid-sized corporate tele-space.

Firewall tailored to monitor Web 2.0 activity

Firewall and application control vendor Palo Alto Networks announced last week a few first-to-market features for its PA-4000 Series firewalls that allow organizations to identify and control applications and user behavior.

The IT manager's complete guide to negotiation

Whether it's a bigger IT budget, more staff, a new process, or a better vendor deal, it often feels like management ain't buyin'. But there's hope.