Servers & Storage
Opinion: Vista schmista, Telstra schmelstra
Well, we just spent the weekend figuring out what went wrong with our plans to setup a client's new branch office using Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista workstations. The gig was supposed to be finished Friday, but we didn't get out of town until Sunday night. And it wasn't the applications or the network that bit us in the bum this time. No, it was the printers. And Telstra.
May 5 2008, 1:22PM
Collaboration
Quest expands unified comms portfolio
Quest Software has broadened its range of unified communications support products for Microsoft's business applications. The company’s MessageStats and Active Roles Server programs have been updated to fully support Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007.
Apr 23 2008, 4:28PM
Software
VMware first quarter revenue up by 69 percent
Virtualisation vendor VMware has released its first quarter revenues for 2008. The strong financial results are attributed to increased adoption of server virtualisation as the technology gains momentum in the global market, claimed VMware.
Apr 23 2008, 2:13PM
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 opinion: Service pack me
So we’re going to get another service pack for SQL Server 2005 after all. Despite SQL Server 2008 being already a release candidate and expected to ship some time after June this year, Microsoft knows there will be droves of users waiting to jump from SQL Server 2000 to 2005.
Apr 18 2008, 4:48PM
Software
Altech joins Hitachi Global Storage Technologies as distie
Australian distributor Altech, has broadened its product range after signing up to authorised distributor for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ (Hitachi GST) hard disk drives (HDDs) in Australia and New Zealand.
Apr 18 2008, 1:31PM
Data centre
Adelaide’s City of West Torrens goes virtual
Australian IT architecture design and integration company – Technical Architecture Solutions (TAS) – is in talks with Adelaide’s City of West Torrens to work on virtual desktops for the council. TAS completed a virtualised server environment for the council in January this year.
Apr 17 2008, 1:39PM
Software
Racetrack memory to change the storage landscape within a decade
Advancements in the development of spintronics-based storage technology could provide a basis for lightning-fast devices capable of holding a hundred times more data in the same amount of space than is possible today.
Apr 12 2008, 6:21AM
Data centre
A virtual Paradigm
Australian reseller Paradigm Technology Group, a subsidiary of Peter Kazacos’ PK Business Advantage Managed Service Provider, has signed up as a strategic technology and commercialisation partner to provide the Virtual.Offis server virtualisation solution to the small to medium business sector.
Apr 7 2008, 1:56PM
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