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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