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IBM eServer xSeries 226 8488 (Xeon 3GHz) review
Reviews First, the well-written hard-copy installation guide lends a hand with seating hardware essentials such as hard drives and memory modules; the document also helps you make sense of the multiple driver and application CDs that ship with the server.
[August 11, 2005, 9:10]
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 review
Reviews Virtuozzo Containers installs much like an ordinary server application. The setup routine took about 30 minutes and was pretty painless, after which we had a choice of two management tools: the bundled Parallels Management Console, which we ran...
[December 5, 2008, 16:10]
Blade PCs: the ultimate managed desktops review
Reviews For example, one user running a processor-intensive application would probably affect all the other users of the application server. There’s also a risk that a single user could bring down the entire application server by running a program that has...
[July 3, 2007, 11:44]
HP ProLiant ML310 review
Reviews No matter how simple a manufacturer tries to make its server's setup process, these systems are inherently more complex -- and therefore more difficult to configure -- than a largely 'boot-and-go' PC.
[June 24, 2005, 9:30]
When Web 2.0 fails review
Reviews In the asynchronous world of AJAX, a single request made by a user through a browser begins a dialogue with the Web application server by downloading and caching the user's anticipated next moves. With AJAX, the attack landscape has increased...
[August 30, 2006, 9:45]
JavaScript plus AJAX equals trouble review
Reviews In the asynchronous world of AJAX, a single request made by a user through a browser begins a dialogue with the Web application server by downloading and caching the user's anticipated next moves. In the old-school Internet, a synchronous world, a...
[August 21, 2006, 15:00]
SQL Server 2008: a first look review
Reviews Microsoft has made some big promises for SQL Server 2008, a major update of its enterprise database product. A new feature lets SQL Server encrypt data in transit transparently. Microsoft claims SQL Server 2008 will run 14 per cent faster than SQL...
[May 27, 2008, 9:37]
Windows Server 2008: preview, part 2 review
Reviews The principal difference is that, like many virtualisation products, Virtual Server 2005 runs as an application on top of a host operating system, sharing out the physical resources on that host among one or more virtual machines (VMs) running...
[July 16, 2007, 11:33]
System Center Essentials 2010 Beta 1 review
Reviews If you later add another server or application, SCE will prompt you to install the necessary MP. Every Microsoft server product has a corresponding MP, created by the product team responsible for the program itself.
[December 1, 2009, 9:18]
Synology DS209+ NAS Server review
Reviews The server's web interface (an AJAX-based application), works just like a desktop application. We tried the NAS server with the Panasonic BL-C1 camera and found that it had an even better response time than when we used the same camera on the DS107+.
[February 26, 2009, 14:54]
vCharter Pro review
Reviews We created an end-user tier that contained the Linux firewall used to provide access to the accountancy server, and another tier that contained the Windows-based application server and its outbound firewall.
[July 3, 2008, 9:11]
Sony VAIO PCV-RXG408 review
Reviews As well as the GigaPocket viewer, there's a timer recording manager application, GigaPocket Explorer, GigaPocket Server and PicoPlayer, a network client for the server. The GigaPocket server is a simple affair that simply makes all the recordings...
[January 15, 2003, 10:38]
Lotus Notes/Domino 8, Beta 2 review
Reviews It's possible to access most of the services that a Domino server provides via a web browser, but the dedicated client delivers a richer experience, and also allows you to work offline. If you're unfamiliar with the system, Notes is the desktop...
[April 20, 2007, 16:54]
A quick guide to Windows Vista Business Edition review
Reviews Some of the business features, such as Fax and Scan and Remote Access, work now, but their full feature set implementation will be dependent upon new releases of Exchange Server and Windows Server, the next version of which (code-named Longhorn...
[December 6, 2006, 15:44]
Microsoft's unified communications suite review
Reviews On 16 October 2007, Microsoft launched Office Communications Server 2007 and its desktop client, Office Communicator 2007. In contrast with most of the previous Microsoft server suites, Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS 2007) integrates...
[October 16, 2007, 10:34]
Microsoft Office System 2003 review
Reviews These include InfoPath 2003 (£166.79), SharePoint Portal Server 2003, FrontPage 2003 (£153.49), OneNote 2003 (£156.99), Project 2003 (£473.99) and Visio 2003 (£158.49). It took just seconds for Office to connect to the proper Microsoft server and...
[October 21, 2003, 11:00]
Contribute 2.0 review
Reviews That means someone with server access must run Contribute, set user permissions and distribute encrypted keys to allowed users. Two new items should make server administrators happy: support for Secure FTP (SFTP) and encryption of Contribute user...
[August 28, 2003, 7:47]
The large-file problem review
Reviews But you know what a hassle it is to email big files: somewhere along the line, it's likely that a server will choke on your large transfer. These tools send files from PC to PC -- nothing is stored on a central server (Pando, interestingly, uses...
[May 18, 2006, 9:25]
Windows 7 Release Candidate: a first look review
Reviews With Windows Server 2008 R2 on the same schedule as Windows 7 there's also a new version of the Remote Server Administration Tool (RSAT), which can manage several servers from a Windows 7 system. Microsoft admits that you'll need Windows Server...
[May 5, 2009, 13:03]
LANsurveyor for Windows 10.0 review
Reviews The default 'free' SQL database will change from MSDE (Microsoft SQL Desktop Engine) to SQL Server Express. Although this will not affect current MSDE repository installations, LANsurveyor users who upgrade to SQL Server Express can take advantage...
[June 7, 2007, 9:37]
