Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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SensusAccess is an OIT-supported tool that allows anyone with an @colorado.edu email address to upload a document and have it converted to an alternate document format. The result is delivered to your ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes. They might be ...

In Microsoft Access, a field is a piece of information related to a single person or thing. Related fields are grouped to form a record, while the ruler changes the format of your reports or forms. To ...