I’ve recently been working on a project to make Lotus Notes email available to users of the Apple iPhone. It turns out there’s quite a few commercial products that claim to do this, but most of the ones I’ve tried seem to not work properly. Perhaps this is because IBM recently announced support for direct […]

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When you delete data from Windows, the data is not actually removed from the hard disk. While this doesn’t cause too many problems for physical hard disks, it means that the virtual disks used by most hypervisors end up being much larger than necessary. In turn this means VMs take longer to backup and may […]

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Virtualisation management specialist Vizioncore announced vFoglight, a monitoring and reporting suite for virtual servers based on a major upgrade to its previous vCharter Pro product. In an exclusive interview with The Hypervisor, Scott Herold, chief architect at Vizioncore, said the new suite would include chargeback tools, be easier to navigate and would make it much […]

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Continuous availability specialist Neverfail today announced its intention to support Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager 2008. VMM is Microsoft’s equivalent of VMware’s Virtual Center management console. Many people will rely on VMM to manage their virtual infrastructure. A Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) deployment consists of multiple components, notably SQL Server, the library service, which requires file […]

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Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, launched on October 16th, enables corporate IT departments to provide telephones, instant messaging and web based conferencing to users located anywhere in the world. We don’t expect many firms to rip out their existing communications infrastructures, but organisations moving into new premises should consider OCS alongside other VoIP and traditional […]

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