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  • Microsoft slashes virtual desktop licence cost

    Citrix said its HDX high-definition technology will integrate with Microsoft's RemoteFX, a graphics acceleration technology for virtual desktops resulting from Microsoft's 2008 acquisition of Calista Technologies.Citrix also announced a new…
    18 March 2010
    Tags: Scheme • Purchased • Licensing • Citrix • Charge • Assurance

  • IBM adds test and development to public cloud

    It will compete with public cloud infrastructure vendors like Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, both of which have formed similar partnerships.But IBM could have a competitive edge over those companies, given its long track record in enterprise…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Software Development • Red Hat • Rational Software • Private Cloud

  • Microsoft bans native code on Windows Phone

    Questioned by Anderson, Brix declined to comment on how Adobe may be implementing Flash on the mobile OS if native code is not supported.According to Anderson, the CE kernel has the necessary APIs, so the question becomes who will be allowed to…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Officials • Kernel • Games • Game • Event • Adobe

  • Microsoft pushing Silverlight 4 for Windows Phone development

    The company showed off tools and demos during a presentation at the Mix10 conference Microsoft at its Mix10 conference showed off application capabilities for its Windows Phone 7 Series platform and offered a release candidate for its upcoming…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Vice President • Preview • Presentation • Graphical • Developer • Candidate

  • CA buys Nimsoft to expand cloud computing services

    The deal, expected to close by the end of this month, will give CA more tools to help customers manage cloud computing environments and cloud services, CA said in a press release.By adding Nimsoft's IT service assurance technologies to its…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Management Software • Maker • Cloud Computing • Acquisition • Acquired

  • VMware, Citrix users targetted by virtual PC start-up

    A virtual desktop start-up Unidesk is aiming to improve deployments of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop with management software that it says reduces storage costs and gives users a more personalised desktop than the VDI tools by themselves.
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Startup • Reduces • Deployments • Delivery • Data Center • Brodkin

Latest Features

  • Firefox add-ons that protect your privacy

    Firefox add-ons that protect your privacy Joseph Guarino Seven top tools for online security Feature Adblock is a God-send for those of us who don't want a web littered with poorly targeted ads.FoxyproxyFoxyproxy is a feature rich proxy management…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Remove • Protecting • Privacy • Addons • Addon • Activities

  • Will the cloud take your IT job?

    Today's factories are stuffed with computerised machine tools and high degrees of automation. Far fewer workers occupy those factories-but the ones who do are highly skilled people who know how to run the computerised tools and manage the overall…
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Skills • Harder • Developments • Centralised • Car • Article

  • Top five ways for VMware to beat Microsoft

    Customers planning big virtualisation deployments are likely to buy management tools as well, and Microsoft's Virtual Machine Manager costs $869 per physical server.VMware has argued that its software can be less expensive than Microsoft's on a…
    02 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Virtual Machine • Management Tools • Forrester Research • Cloud Computing • Apis

  • Apple App store's dirty little secret

    The tools they do rely on, like Apple's Top 25 lists and customer reviews, contain their share of flaws. For example, Frog Design, a 40-year-old design firm, has had a long-standing relationship with Apple, which Mike Goos, director of product…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Suit • Relationship • Lists • Itunes • Game • Express

  • What is Google Wave?

    If Wave catches on, your company could set up its own Wave server, which would then be able to communicate with other Wave servers across the Internet, independent of Google.What Wave Isn'tWhile Wave incorporates features found in email, instant…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Wave • Realtime • Preview • Parallel • Maps • Editing

  • Active Directory: 10 years old and thinking cloud

    Also, the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (formerly called ADAM), which is mostly an Internet focused directory, isnt on par with AD in terms of management tools, making it in essence a separate deployment.But in addition to those…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Windows Server • Network World • Legacy • Addon • Active Directory • Access Control

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How-Tos

  • How to ensure your network security

    We're not monitoring our internal LAN traffic, and we don't have all the product divisions signed up to use our DLP tools. It could be convenient if we can do it all from one Trend Micro Control Management console.
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Usb Ports • Offices • Intellectual Property • Endpoint • Blocking

  • How to use open APIs to boost your business

    This enables companies of all sizes to start getting higher utilisation out of the core application or service by making it available through a much broader channel than the company's online presence alone.Regardless of whose tools you use to…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Party • Figure • Boost • App • Apis • Api

  • How to get an Apple iPad for work

    There is a difference between having remote support tools and being able to use them.How should IT approach the iPad? The lack of built-in Flash support for the iPad might be an issue, but again, they live on their iPhone now, so Flash support…
    19 February 2010
    Tags: Presentations • Mac Os • Keynote • Iphones • Ignore • Assuming

  • How to fix cloud security

    If you are going with an infrastructure-as-a-service provider, ask what tools it can provide you to protect your virtual environment.Encrypt data at rest and in transit; otherwise, don't put sensitive information in the cloud.Divvy up…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Responsibility • Iso • Incident • Cloud Computing • Agent • Access Control

  • How to move your small business to the cloud

    Paul Rosenfeld, cofounder and CEO of Fanminder, a mobile marketing firm with 12 employees, calls it "incredibly easy to use and powerful": "Having a virtual team makes it nearly impossible to coordinate workflow without their tools," Rosenfeld says.
    01 February 2010
    Tags: Transition • Small Businesses • Small Business • Microsoft Office • Founder • Cloud Computing

  • How to manage virtual machine performance

    How to manage virtual machine performance Kevin Fogarty Capacity management tools can help squeeze the most out of physical servers How-Tos Virtualisation capacity planning tools are available all over, but sometimes the intangibles make a big…
    01 February 2010
    Tags: Demands • Assessment • Vm • Virtual Machines • Workloads • Thumb

Reviews

  • Intel Westmere Xeon review

    The tests were my standard array of real world workloads rather than mainline benchmarking tools. Westmere picks up where Nehalem left off.The key developments in Westmere-EP are two more cores (six total), the ability to address two DIMMs per…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Xeon • Socket • Scalability • Power Consumption • Compression • Cache

  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 review

    But it also boasts the ability to manage both VMware and Hyper-V environments, a feature not found in VMware's management tools. The product consolidates many management tasks, such as VM creation and teardown, as well as physical-to-virtual and…
    15 March 2010
    Tags: Vm • Virtual Machines • Maintenance • Hosts • Clustering • Cluster

  • HP Mini 210 review

    The Wi-Fi, caps lock, mute and 'touchpad disabled' lights are visible on the top of the system, but only when these features are enabled.Even the panel on the base of the HP Mini 210 netbook seems futuristic: you don't have to use any tools to…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Toshiba • Screens • Modem • Keys • Disable • Atom

  • Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 review

    If you want, you can also use both.We dove deepest into the built-in policy tools, and found that we were able to create moderately sophisticated access control policies using a well-designed management system.UAG offers the ability to define…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Portal • Microsoft Windows • Endpoint • Credentials • Checking • Active Directory

  • Zend Studio review

    Zend Studio installs the Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP). Zend Studio review Rick Grehan A bottomless bucket of coding tools review,reviews Zend Studio is a fine marriage of the open source Eclipse IDE and the Zend family of PHP tools and…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Studio • Session • Function • Eclipse • Country • Collection

  • PHP code tools round up

    The key differences we discovered were in the tools they provide (HTML inspector, SQL management system) for various tasks, the quality of their documentation, and general ease of use. PHP code tools round up Rick Grehan Eight powerful packages…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Languages • Language • Index • Extent • Eclipse • Developer

White Papers

  • Introducing five-levels to Capacity Management Maturity

    Introducing five-levels to Capacity Management Maturity TeamQuest Why gaining maturity is a continuous process and not just about the tools whitepaper In this paper we describe five levels of Capacity Management maturity, how organisations can…
    18 March 2010
    Tags: Maturity • Demands • Demanding • Continuous • Cases • Budget

  • Strategies to improve IT Efficiency: Using predictive analysis to do more with less

    Predictive analysis in the form of a well-thought capacity management process, inspired by ITIL, for example, and supported by adequate tools, is the answer to the apparent conundrum posed by consolidation, virtualisation, and IT service quality.
    18 March 2010
    Tags: Paper • Forrester Research • Efficiency • Benefits • Analysis

  • Thin provisioning

    IT managers must constantly evaluate the efficiency of tools and processes used to serve and manage corporate data. Balancing new project demands and limited IT resources is the challenging, often thankless, job of IT management.
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Thin Provisioning • Efficiency • Assigned • Allocated • Achieve

  • Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT event correlation and analysis

    They do this by consolidating events from various devices, applications, and other management tools. IT organisations invest in ECA tools to improve the productivity of the IT operations staff, and to reduce the time it takes to troubleshoot problems.
    04 February 2010
    Tags: Management Tools • Invest • Event Management • Events • Analysis

  • State of the Business Process Management Market 2008

    Over the last few years, BPM has seen rapid growth because it succeeds where earlier approaches have failed — uniting business strategists and technologists together with a shared set of tools to accomplish common goals.
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Paper • Failed • Growth • Mature • Bpm • Principles

  • Whats new in Oracle SOA Suite 11g?

    Over the years, tools used to implement Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) have become more and more capable, sometimes at the price of complexity. Oracle has always put the emphasis on the integration of the tools and simplification of the user…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Soa • Human • Enhancements • Workflow • Suite • Weblogic Server

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