Take Charge of Your LAN Sioux Falls SD

Posted by : Matt Lake I well remember the first small business owner I met who maintained the company network. She wasn't a computer professional--much less a network specialist--but she'd hired someone to put together a server-based solution and someone else to wire the building for Ethernet. And the results were great. Even the volunteers at her nonprofit organization were able to add new computers and share files, printers, and Internet access in minutes. She needed zero dollars out of her training budget for networking.

But she was absolutely miserable. Managing the systems on the network soon turned from a part-time job function to a full-time headache. Every day--several times a day--another call would come through complaining about system freeze-ups, data loss, and mysterious error messages.

The network had opened a Pandora's box, allowing illicit downloads to mess up systems that previously had been tightly locked down. And because the two dozen computers in this low-budget operation spread over three floors of the building, even getting in front of the right monitor was a hassle.

Keeping a site in your sights

Keeping up with the vagaries of this network used to be futile. That's why this ersatz network administrator turned to Executive Software's SiteKeeper 2. And when I evaluated the program, I could see why. Executive Software attacks the problem of site administration from a large-scale enterprise perspective. ...

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