If you’re an IT Professional, you need a wide variety of solutions to support your organization. There are a number of resources available to help you manage and deploy technology. To learn more about your specific area of interest, we have highlighted some of the most frequently requested information for IT professionals.
Desktop Management
You face many challenges when managing the computers within your organization, including software deployment, image creation and deployment, reporting, and trouble shooting. But you can simplify things through the use of innovative administrative tools and standards-based directory services.
Resources
- Apple Remote Desktop
- Automator and Apple Remote Desktop Seminar
- Creating Automator Actions for Apple Remote Desktop
- Rapid Image Deployment
- Apple Server Desktop Management Solutions
- Mac OS X Server NetBoot and Network Install
- NetBoot Tech Brief
- Network Install Tech Brief
- Mac OS X Deployment Training
Security
Security is always a key issue in systems administration. Whether you’re an IT manager with thousands of networked systems, or running a small workgroup, you need to safeguard the confidentiality of information and the integrity of your computers.
Resources
- IT Pro - Government
- IT Pro - Intrusion Protection Using Open Source Tools
- IT Pro - Ensuring Security for Your Wireless Network
- Common Criteria
- Mac OS X Security Best Practices
- Using Token-Based Authentication
- ARD 3: Encrypted Communication
- Xserve Improves Security and Storage for 24 Hour Fitness
- Mac OS X Networking and Security Software Downloads
- Mac OS X Networking and VPN
- Mac OS X Security Features
- Mac OS X Security Tech Brief
- Mac OS X Security Configuration Guide
- Mac OS X Security Technical Implementation Guide [DISA/DOD]
- Mac OS X Security Configuration [NSA]
- Apple Product Security
- Smart Card Setup Guide
- Enabling Smart Card Login Tutorial
Data Retention and Recovery
One of many challenges an IT manager faces is finding powerful yet effective ways to back up, replicate, and recover data. We understand that you need to access, connect, store, protect and archive your data, here are some resources highlighting Apple (and partner) technologies designed to meet these needs.
Resources
- Data Retention and Recovery Seminar
- Build High Performance Tiered Storage Seminar
- A Blueprint for Tiered Storage Seminar
- Information Lifecycle Management Seminar
- UPS Mac OS X Integration Guide
- Effective Backup System Saves Design Firm’s Data
- Apple Enterprise Backup Solutions
- Enterprise Backup Solutions Webcast
- Tolis Group BRU Server
- EMC Insignia Retrospect
- Atempo Time Navigator
- Arkeia Network Backup
- BakBone Netvault
- SGL FlashNet
Directory Services
Deploying multiple computers within any business typically requires some sort of centralized user administration and authentication. The challenge to IT professionals today is to manage centralized information across platforms and across multiple deployment scenarios. Here are a few resources to help guide you to understand some of the key aspects of directory services and how they fit within an organization.
Resources
- Best Practices: Integrating Mac OS X With Active Directory
- Integrating Mac OS X and Active Directory
- Mac OS X Server Open Directory
- Mac OS X Server Open Directory Administration
- Open Source Directory Services
- Open Directory Tech Brief
- Open Directory Support
- AD/OD Integration
- Leveraging Active Directory with Mac OS X
- Customizing Apple’s Open Directory for the Enterprise
- Integrating Macs and Microsoft Active Directory
- MIT Kerberos
- Windows Services Tech Brief
- Directory Services Integration Client & Services Training
High-Performance Computing
Linking IT resources together in concert to solve computationally intensive tasks is made possible by Apple technologies. Read about professional solutions for science, business, and education, and how cluster computing can help solve complex problems. Resources are provided to guide you in exploring HPC.
Resources
- UIUC’s 640-node Xserve Cluster Wins on Price, Speed
- Taking Apple Xserve to MACH5
- Bio-IT World on Apple in the Life Sciences
- Apple and Life Science Research: Enabling Technologies
- Exagen Diagnostics: Genomic Market Discovery on an Xserve Computational Cluster
- Apple Workgroup Cluster Configuration Tool
- Apple Workgroup Cluster
- High Performance Computing with Mac OS X
- Xgrid
- Apple’s Advanced Computation Group
- More Apple Cluster Computing Resources
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