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Dell™ Solutions Guides for Microsoft® Hyper-V™ - Solutions Guide
White Papers As a virtualization solution, Hyper-V allows a user to take maximum advantage of server hardware by providing the capability to run multiple operating systems (on virtual machines) on a single physical server.
[November 19, 2009, 11:01]
What You Need to Know About Microsoft Server 2008 Deployment
White Papers When you're talking about deployment of Microsoft Server 2008, also known as Longhorn. So what is new with Longhorn, how does WinPE make operating systems easier to install, and what tools are available?
[November 19, 2009, 11:01]
Web Server Improvements with Microsoft Server 2008
White Papers This is another in our series about Microsoft Longhorn, also known as Server 2008. Longhorn includes a greatly improved component for Web servers called Internet Information Server 7, or IIS7 (Try saying that three time fast!
[November 19, 2009, 11:01]
Dell Storage and CommVault Simpana Ease Ad Option of Microsoft Windows Server 2008
White Papers Migrating data associated with Microsoft® operating systems, applications, and other software can be a challenge administrators overlook when planning system upgrades. Dell™ PowerVault™ and Dell EqualLogic™ storage and CommVault® SimpanaÂ...
[November 19, 2009, 11:01]
'Polished' Moblin adds 3G support, plug-ins
News Various components of Moblin have been upgraded, so the operating system now uses version 2.6.31 of the Linux kernel, Intel Linux graphics driver 2.9, X server 1.6.4 and Mesa 7.6. In September, Intel launched a programme to encourage the...
[November 5, 2009, 15:06]
HP converges on the datacentre
News In addition, HP has repackaged its datacentre management tools as Data Center Smart Grid (DCSG), which allows the monitoring and control of energy use down to the rack and server levels. ProCurve is the brand for HP's hardware and software...
[November 4, 2009, 16:06]
ADmitMac
Downloads It supports the highest levels of security and does not require the downgrading of security when using Windows Server 2003. ADmitMac works with domains configured using Microsoft's Highly Secure (HISEC) security templates, automatically...
[November 3, 2009, 14:16]
VirtualBox
Downloads VirtualBox runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.
[October 30, 2009, 0:47]
Juniper pieces together new network push
News Juniper also announced its first licensing of the Junos operating system on Thursday to Blade Network Technologies for the development of Junos-based blade server switches. As part of this drive, it has begun offering server hardware and has...
[October 29, 2009, 16:25]
Trend Micro to protect cloud servers
News The software can work with both physical and virtual systems using server-based software agents, and it provides virtual security appliances specifically designed for VMware VI3 and vSphere 4 environments.
[October 27, 2009, 7:06]
Apple drops ZFS project
News Apple also initially advertised ZFS support as a feature of Mac OS X Server 10.6 (Snow Leopard), the current version, although references to ZFS were later removed from the software's feature list. In 2007, Sun chief executive Jonathan Schwartz...
[October 26, 2009, 15:50]
JBuddy Messenger
Downloads JBuddy Messenger requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) which means it's suited to run on most modern operating systems. Google Talk XMPP / Jabber IBM Lotus Sametime Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS / LCS) Paid License...
[October 26, 2009, 15:38]
Who buys Windows these days?
Talkback Bottom line: folks argue about which horse must win or lose the desktop/server operating systems races for no better reason than they worship in the church of Operating System X. I'd love to know the numbers too.how many OEM installations, how many...
[October 15, 2009, 15:14]
Sun and Fujitsu update Sparc64 VII chips
News Sun and Fujitsu on Tuesday announced new quad-core Sparc64 VII processors and an enhanced memory controller for the Sparc Enterprise server line. The new hardware arrives as Sun and Oracle seek to reassure customers over the future of Sun's...
[October 14, 2009, 15:55]
Microsoft to fix zero-day SMB, IIS holes
News Windows Server 2008 R2 is not vulnerable, and neither are the earlier Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems . Microsoft on Thursday said it will provide a fix next week for zero-day flaws in Microsoft Server Message Block and Internet...
[October 9, 2009, 14:19]
Microsoft, Red Hat kick off mixed virtualisation
News Microsoft and Red Hat have completed interoperability testing of their operating systems and virtualisation products, and have announced that now they both support mixed virtualisation environments. The move was first announced in February, when...
[October 8, 2009, 12:19]
Red Hat and Microsoft support mixed virtualisation
Blog It is now possible to deploy supported virtualisation environments that combine Red Hat Linux with Microsoft Windows Server, the two companies have announced. Late on Wednesday, Red Hat and Microsoft said they had completed interoperability testing...
[October 7, 2009, 17:40]
VMware hits back at Microsoft cost criticism
News However, Sjostedt said Microsoft's main business model of selling desktop and server operating systems was being threatened by virtualisation and bespoke operating systems. The money is all in management tools and services [rather than the...
[October 6, 2009, 17:10]
API Calls that break under Windows 7
Blog Microsoft has removed support for the two API's for security reasons and Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server will no longer support these API's. If the application works under the following operating systems, then these calls are not being used;
[October 5, 2009, 10:34]
Real World OS Compatability Problems
Blog Just get Windows Server 2008 R2 since the server was coming from DELL. For a customer's installation, we needed to buy a new rack mount server to replace a failed system. The new server would be replacing a previous 1U server that had been running...
[October 5, 2009, 9:49]
