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NETGEAR Launches the Industry's Highest-Density Network Storage Solution for SMBs: SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 22, 2009 — NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today announced the addition of a new, high-density network storage system to its award-winning family of ReadyNAS® products for (...)
23 June 2009
HP Advances Scale-out Computing with Breakthrough Data Center Solution: PALO ALTO, Calif., June 10, 2009 - HP today launched the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio designed to deliver a new magnitude of cost and resource savings for businesses involved in Web 2.0, cloud and high-performance computing. Companies with "scale-out" business models such as these, (...)
10 June 2009
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for June 2009: Version: 1.0 This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for June 2009. With the release of the bulletins for June 2009, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued June 4, 2009. (...)
10 June 2009
IBM Helps Companies Gain Control of Their Information With Solid State Flash Technology: SOMERS, N.Y. - 21 May 2009: IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced that it is delivering new solid-state offerings across its hardware platforms using new smart data management software to enable customers to dramatically improve response times on Solid State Drives (SSDs), while also helping to reduce (...)
22 May 2009
HP Delivers Up to 400 Percent Improvement in XML Messaging Performance for SAP NetWeaver PI: PALO ALTO, Calif., May 12, 2009 - HP today announced a first-of-its-kind server-based solution designed to dramatically speed business transactions within the SAP NetWeaver® Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) technology. By speeding the mapping of XML messages sized from 7 to 15 megabytes, (...)
12 May 2009
Citrix Education Announces Advanced Certifications for Virtualization: FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. » 5/7/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS) today announced new advanced certifications targeted at engineers and architects specializing in advanced virtualization solutions. A hot growth area, virtualization technologies help enterprises become more agile, reduce (...)
7 May 2009
Windows 7 Release Candidate: Windows 7 Release Candidate is available for download. Feel free to grab it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx . more...
5 May 2009
Windows Vista SP2 RTM + Windows Vista SP1 Blocker Tool Removed: Brandon LeBlanc announced the availability of Windows Vista SP2 on the official Windows Blog: Today we are announcing the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. SP2 represents the latest step in Microsoft's commitment to continuous (...)
29 April 2009
Office Service Pack 2 A Significant Stability, Performance and Interoperability Upgrade: REDMOND, Wash. — April 28, 2009 — As part of its efforts to continually improve its products and make them more useful for customers, Microsoft periodically releases update packages known as "service packs." Service packs deliver product updates and selected enhancements, without (...)
28 April 2009
HP Introduces Industry's First Business-ready Infrastructure for Automated Service Delivery in Data Centers: BERLIN, April 20, 2009 - HP today unveiled new solutions within its Adaptive Infrastructure (AI) portfolio that fundamentally change the way technology is used to deliver business services, while also reducing overall infrastructure costs and data center complexity.(1) HP BladeSystem (...)
20 April 2009
HP Simplifies Virtualized Infrastructures with Industry-first Storage Capabilities: BERLIN, April 20, 2009 - HP today announced new shared storage solutions that improve business reliability and reduce costs by simplifying server virtualization deployments. Customers deploying virtual environments often overlook the storage requirements needed to match their redesigned (...)
20 April 2009
MS Security Bulletin for April: MS Security Bulletin for this month: Bulletin IDBulletin TitleMaximum Severity RatingVulnerability ImpactRestart RequirementAffected SoftwareMS09-009Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel Could Cause Remote Code ExecutionCriticalRemote Code ExecutionMay Require RestartMicrosoft (...)
20 April 2009
Free E-Book: Windows® Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Companion: Good people at Microsoft Press are offering a free e-book: Windows® Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Companion Feel free to grab it on this page after registration on the site: http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urws8un4p7. (...)
20 April 2009
WD(R) Ships 2 Terabyte Enterprise-Class Hard Drives With Next-Generation GreenPower(TM) Technology: LAS VEGAS, April 20 -- (NAB Show Booth No. SL12809) -- Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today expanded its enterprise family of hard drives to include the next-generation 2 TB capacity, the largest and only 2 TB enterprise-class hard drive shipping today. (...)
20 April 2009
Oracle to Buy Sun: SANTA CLARA, Calif. April 20, 2009 Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 (...)
20 April 2009
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1: SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) is now available. There is a number of versions available from the following page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=66ab3dbb-bf3e-4f46-9559-ccc6a4f9dc19. (...)
8 April 2009
New Entry-Level Server Platform Gives Small Businesses Access to Big-Business Solutions: REDMOND, Wash. — April 1, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. has expanded its industry-leading Windows Server family of operating systems with the addition of Windows Server 2008 Foundation. Built for small businesses with 15 or fewer users, Windows Server 2008 Foundation puts the reliability, (...)
1 April 2009
HP Expands Integrity NonStop Server Line, Delivering Unparalleled Performance at Low Cost: PALO ALTO, Calif., March 16, 2009 - HP today announced the new, entry-level HP Integrity NonStop NS2000 server family, which delivers high performance and fault-tolerance at the lowest cost available for a multi-core Integrity NonStop system. The NS2000 is ideal for small and midsized (...)
17 March 2009
Cisco Unleashes the Power of Virtualization with Industry's First Unified Computing System: SAN JOSE Calif. - March 16, 2009 - Cisco today unveiled an evolutionary new data center architecture, innovative services and an open ecosystem of best in class partners to help customers develop next-generation data centers that unleash the full power of virtualization. (...)
17 March 2009
Western Digital: Huge 8 tb capacity, media streaming and performance enhancement added to wd® sharespace network storage systems for small offices and digital media enthusiasts: LAS VEGAS - (PMA BOOTH NO. R260) -- Mar. 3, 2009 - WD® (NYSE: WDC), the world's leader in external storage solutions, today announced that WD ShareSpace™ network storage systems now offer 8 TB (terabytes) of capacity, up to 30 percent faster transfer speeds, and DLNA1 media streaming (...)
3 March 2009
Dell Reduces IT Complexity and Improves Energy Efficiency with New Data Center Infrastructure Products: Round Rock, Texas, March 3, 2009 - Dell today introduced next-generation data center infrastructure products designed to help customers simplify and manage their data center environment while improving energy efficiency. more...
3 March 2009
Smooth Streaming component beta for IIS7: Microsoft released Smooth Streaming extension component beta for IIS7. Here is a short description of Smooth Streaming: Smooth Streaming enables affordable adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight clients over HTTP. It dynamically detects current network and local PC conditions, and (...)
24 February 2009
New Citrix XenServer Release Makes Enterprise-Class, Cloud-Proven Virtualization Free for Everyone: BOSTON » 2/23/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today unveiled a groundbreaking new version of Citrix® XenServer™ – the company's enterprise-class, cloud-proven virtualization platform – that will be offered (...)
23 February 2009
IIS7: Application Request Routing: Microsoft Application Request Routing (ARR) Version 1 for IIS 7 has been released. ARR enables Web server administrators and hosting providers and to increase Web application reliability and scalability through rule-based routing and load balancing of HTTP server requests. (...)
17 February 2009
Citrix Branch Repeater Accelerates Delivery of Virtualized Applications to the Branch User While Slashing IT Costs: SANTA CLARA, CA » 2/4/2009 » Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today introduced Citrix® Branch Repeater™ 5, a key component of the Citrix Delivery Center™ product family, adding significant enhancements that accelerate (...)
4 February 2009
WD® launches industry's first 2 TB hard drives: LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Jan. 27, 2009 - WD (NYSE: WDC) today announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive - the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD's popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD® Caviar® Green™ hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch (...)
27 January 2009
Internet Explorer RC1: Hi everyone, MS released a release candidate of Internet Explorer 8. If you are interested to check it out feel free to download it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/beta/worldwide-sites.aspx. more...
27 January 2009
Announcing Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta!: Oliver Rist, Technical Product Manager for Windows Server Marketing, announced availability of Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta on Windows Server Division Weblog : For homo sapiens, getting older is painful. Take me for example. Nine hours on a plane never bothered me when I was in my 20s with a (...)
8 January 2009
Microsoft’s Ballmer Announces Availability of Windows 7 Beta and Windows Live: LAS VEGAS — Jan. 7, 2009 — In a keynote address at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer announced the beta availability of the Windows 7 operating system as well as the availability of the latest version of the (...)
8 January 2009
AMD Delivers Groundbreaking Platform for Ultrathin Notebooks: LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- January 6, 2009 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the availability of the AMD platform for ultrathin notebooks, enabling exceedingly thin and light OEM designs with rich entertainment capabilities at an affordable price. (...)
6 January 2009
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for December 2008: Microsoft issued an out of band notification for its Internet Explorer products. This is a notification for a critical vulnerability which would allow remote code execution. IE versions 5 to 8 beta 2 are affected. It is suggested to apply the update for this vulnerability as soon as it is (...)
17 December 2008
3CX Phone System v7.0 Delivers on Mobility Promise: London – 8 December 2008 - 3CX (www.3cx.com) the international developer of telecommunications software has announced the roll out of version 7.0 of 3CX Phone System for Windows. more...
9 December 2008
Announcing the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Customer Preview Program (CPP): Mike Nash announced Customer Preview Program on Windows Team Blog: Beginning Thursday Dec. 4th, we will be making the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Beta available to everyone through a Customer Preview Program (CPP). The CPP will launch on TechNet and be available to (...)
3 December 2008
Fujitsu to Release New Line of Enterprise Hard Disk Drives: Tokyo, November 17, 2008 — Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of two new series in its line of 2.5" enterprise hard disk drives (HDDs), the 10,025-rpm MBD2 RC series and 15,000-rpm MBE2 RC series, both of which provide standard support for the 6Gb/s SAS interface. The MBD2 RC (...)
17 November 2008
HP Launches Breakthrough Virtualization Technologies That Cut Networking Costs by 55 Percent: PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 17, 2008 - HP today announced breakthrough networking, storage and server technologies that reduce costs, increase bandwidth flexibility and improve overall performance of virtual server environments. The HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet module, a direct connect (...)
17 November 2008
HP Cuts Costs, Triples Data Center Capacity with New Energy-efficiency Technologies, Services: PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 3, 2008 - HP today broadened its Green Business Technology initiative with additions to its HP Thermal Logic portfolio that include power-capping server technologies and energy-efficiency services designed to reduce costs and extend the life of data centers. In (...)
3 November 2008
Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure at Professional Developers Conference: LOS ANGELES — Oct. 27, 2008 — Today, during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2008 (PDC2008), Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.'s chief software architect, announced Windows Azure, the cloud-based service foundation underlying its Azure Services Platform, (...)
28 October 2008
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2008: This is an advance notification of an out-of-band security bulletin that Microsoft is intending to release on October 23, 2008. This bulletin advance notification will be replaced with the revised October bulletin summary on October 23, 2008. The revised bulletin summary will include the (...)
23 October 2008
Citrix Certifies XenServer for Intel Environments: BOSTON - 10/21/2008 - Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), the global leader in application delivery infrastructure, today announced that it has certified its XenServer™ solutions for use in Intel-based environments as a member of the Intel® Enabled Server Acceleration Alliance (Intel® (...)
21 October 2008
HP Strengthens Security Portfolio with New Disk Encryption and Key Management Solutions: DALLAS, Oct. more...
13 October 2008
Choose speed, productivity and innovation with Opera 9.6: Oslo, Norway — October 8, 2008 Opera Software today launched Opera 9.6, the newest version of Opera's award-winning Web browser. Opera 9.6 enhances the performance and flexibility of Opera's built-in e-mail client, while adding new features to Opera's free browser-synchronization service, (...)
9 October 2008
Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server: Amazon published a notification announcing the availability of Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server as part of their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. EC2 is a computing cloud service available from Amazon. EC2 provides simple scalable infrastructure for application deployment. (...)
2 October 2008
Whitepaper: Impact of unlicensed software on mid-market companies: Executive summary: Companies must weigh the trade-off of purchasing and using genuine, fully licensed software versus using unlicensed software. This paper explores this trade-off and concludes that companies with unlicensed software do not have lower IT spend, but may incur far greater risk of (...)
1 October 2008
New vulnerabilities in TCP/IP implementations to be announced on T2´08 conference: It was announced that the second part of "Iceberg Incorporated - A Peek Under the Surface of the Criminal Enterprise" talk on T2´08 conference was replaced with a new talk: "Jack C. Louis and Robert E. more...
1 October 2008
Microsoft Unveils Next Version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework: REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 29, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today provided the first look at the next version of its developer tools and platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. more...
1 October 2008
Nero 9 released: Nero released the latest version of its award winning optical media burning software: Nero 9 . more...
1 October 2008
Toshiba introduces industry’s first quarter-terabyte 1.8-inch hdd in high-performance configuration for mobile pcs: IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2007 – Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the industry pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), today announced expansion of its market-leading 1.8-inch lineup with the MKxx29GSG series which include three new high-capacity, high-performance (...)
26 September 2008
40% off SolarWinds ipMonitor if you order by 26th September 2008.: SolarWinds is offering 40% off of SolarWinds ipMonitor until the 26th of September. This is a great chance to get this wonderful tool for almost half the price. As Dr. Tom Shinder wrote in the previous post, “For anyone who’s interested in a flexible, powerful, yet easy to use and (...)
18 September 2008
Hands on with SolarWinds ipMonitor, written by Dr. Tom Shinder: As a Windows network admin, you know that one of your key duties is to monitor the health and status of your network. There are a lot of ways to do this. You can manually check each machine each day, but unless you have a exceptionally small network, this isn't a realistic option. What you need (...)
22 August 2008
Letter from VMware CEO Paul Maritz: Last night, we became aware of a code issue with the recently released update to ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 (Update 2). When the time clock in a server running ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Update 2 hits 12:00AM on August 12th, 2008, the released code causes the product license to expire. The problem has (...)
13 August 2008
New NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems Bring Visual Supercomputing To The Deskside: SIGGRAPH 2008—LOS ANGELES, CA—August 12, 2008—3D models and datasets have become too large for the standard desktop workstation to handle. To help combat the problem, NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual computing technologies, announced today the D Series of (...)
12 August 2008
HP to Acquire Colubris Networks to Expand, HP ProCurve’s Wireless Technology Offerings: HP today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Colubris Networks Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based, privately-held global provider of intelligent wireless networks for enterprises and service providers. HP plans to integrate Colubris' extensive product line into its ProCurve (...)
12 August 2008
Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008: REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 6, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company's acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform. This version of SQL Server provides powerful new capabilities (...)
7 August 2008
New Google Search Appliance: 10 million documents in a single box: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (August 06, 2008) - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced an all-new version of the Google Search Appliance™ integrated hardware and software solution, with a new architecture that can index all of an organization's content—up to 10 million (...)
6 August 2008
VMware ESXi Hypervisor Now Free: VMware, Inc., (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced its stand-alone ESXi hypervisor will be available at no cost to help companies of all sizes experience the benefits of virtualization. Since 2001, VMware has provided the (...)
30 July 2008
Windows Essential Business Server 2008 - Public Preview Software – Release Candidate 1: Designed and priced for midsize businesses, Windows Essential Business Server 2008 simplifies your daily activities with a Centralized Administration Console that gives you a single point of access to your IT environment. Windows Essential Business Server 2008 also provides an integrated and (...)
21 July 2008