Apple fans argue Snow Leopard Server is functionally equivalent to Windows Server running Microsoft Exchange, Office Communications Server, SQL Server, SharePoint and a third party anti-spam engine, but that Snow Leopard Server costs much less than Windows.
And with OS X there are no additional per-user license fees to pay for each of these apps.
Hardware costs [...]

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A recent fire in London’s Soho district meant some businesses were locked out of their offices for several days. The Buncefield Oil depot fire had a similar effect on many more businesses for much longer. How would your business cope if a nearby incident or disaster meant you couldn’t access vital IT systems for days [...]

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Organizations with many servers are increasingly interested to know just how much energy they could save by upgrading to new hardware, but it is often difficult to find solid data about this kind of energy consumption. Now, detailed tests in The Hypervisor Labs have quantified the potential savings.
Our test results show servers fitted with new [...]

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Last week Microsoft released Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 to manufacture. This is the free version of Microsoft’s server virtualization engine, and the same updated software is also included in Windows Server 2008 R2, which was also released to manufacturing last week.
Firms could download and install as many copies of the free Hyper-V 2008 R2 as [...]

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Launched in May, I’m OnCall 1.1 is a web based remote control system designed for help desks and technical support organisations. New in this release is support for Macs and 64-bit Windows, plus enhanced multi-monitor support.
The suite is hosted by 01 Communique and in our tests it worked well with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or [...]

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Deployments of Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 are set to sky rocket following the launch of Hyper-V 2008 R2, which we expect will be announced by Microsoft next week. Last month the Redmond software giant delivered a prelease version of Hyper-V 2008 R2 to third party developers for testing, which suggests the software is nearly ready for [...]

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Last week VMware released update 4 of its ESX hypervisor. The upgrade includes several new or updated components that many users will want. But VMware has also removed some vital functionality that could leave users of its free ESXi hypervisor stranded.
For example, the PowerShell interface has been switched to what VMware calls “read only” mode.
PowerShell [...]

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Corporate customers and software developers were unable to access Microsoft’s MSDN benefits portal for much of today. The portal provides MSDN subscribers with access to downloads of Microsoft products and license keys. Although Microsoft has not issued a statement about the problem, the problem came to light in The Hypervisor Lab when one of our [...]

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Launched in October, the appliance is based on a Dell PowerEdge 2970 server and the Red Hat Application Stack, which includes the Apache web server, MySQL database and JBoss application server.
As well as making it extremely quick and easy for administrators to deploy applications, once deployed, the service and support package makes it easy to [...]

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Launched in December, Logmein Ignition for iPhone allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to remote control PCs using the popular LogMeIn web service.
LogMeIn.com provides remote control of multiple PCs from normal desktop web browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer, and says its users connect to 50 million devices through its service.
Users register with LogMeIn [...]

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