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Vista’s Nine Most Annoying Features
Microsoft Windows Vista is gonna be with us for a long time. It’s a fine operating system, so that’s good news. Still, riding shotgun with all of Vista’s charms are its many little annoyances. Here are nine that stick in my craw. 1. Who Am I and Who Are You Windows Vista tries hard to…
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Virtual Servers and Security
There’s a good argument to make, and some experts make it, that virtualization is one of those technologies that’s making a cyclical comeback. The whole VM thing, after all, was invented by IBM guys in the ’60s, right? My instincts are sympathetic to this argument: VMs were invented for an era when hardware was really,…
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Trend Micro Targets SMBs with Security Offering
Trend Micro, a leader in anti-virus and Internet content security, is making the latest version of its trademark all-in-one defense against Web-based threats available Jan. 29. Trend Micro Client Server Messaging Security 3.5 is aimed specifically at meeting the security needs of SMBs (small and midsize businesses), company officials said. Offering protection against spyware, rootkits…
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VMware Seeks ‘Virtual’ Success with New Software
After a four-month beta run, VMware is preparing to release the full version of its Converter 3 virtualization software Jan. 29. The Palo Alto, Calif., company, the leader in x86 server virtualization software, is releasing the full version of its product after beta testing the software since Oct. 2. The software allows automation of physical-to-virtual…
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Prepare for Vista Future
Despite all the hoopla around Microsoft’s Windows Vista, enterprise IT managers won’t—and shouldn’t—rush en masse to the new operating system. Nonetheless, eWEEK Labs advises that administrators examine tools such as FullArmor’s ADMX Migrator to better understand and prepare for the operating system’s presence in the network. One of Vista’s great under-the-hood enhancements is dramatically improved…
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Virtualization Demand Grows
Virtualizing spinning-disk data storage systems is no longer simply a trend; it’s now the norm and considered vital to backing up, archiving, and protecting data for a growing number of businesses large and small. The days of simply adding storage hardware to an IT system and pouring in e-mail, word documents, spreadsheets, photos and everything…
