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 […]

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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 […]

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Quick and easy DR sounds too good to be true, but I’ve been reviewing a new appliance and service offering from Plan B. The review is published on ZDnet, and according to the review, the Plan B offering seems to have most of the bases covered. Plan B developed the appliance and agent software itself, […]

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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 showed a beta version of its vRanger Pro 4 backup suite to attendees at the VMworld conference in Las Vegas today. The new software, which is due to be launched later this year, includes support for Microsoft’s PowerShell scripting language. Scott Herold, chief architect at Vizioncore, said, “We’re very excited about […]

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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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By Roger Howorth Late last year Microsoft launched Office Communications Server (OCS) 2008 and Office Communicator 2007, the complementary desktop client for the new server suite. If nothing else, the pair could be used as a bargaining tool to help reduce the costs of office telecoms. If you haven’t seen them yet, they’re well worth […]

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