BURBANK, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/25/11 — Despite it having been around for several years, virtualization is in many ways still an emerging technology. Hence, there are still elements of virtualization that IT personnel as well as software and hardware manufacturers are still grappling with. These include backup, which is of course vital in any computing scenario. The list also includes security handlings such as antivirus and firewalls, which are also crucial to address. Configuration of vir
BURBANK, CA — (Marketwire) — 08/18/11 — What is the cause of slow response times? There are IT directors and system administrators the world over who have beaten themselves silly over this question. They have upgraded hardware, tweaked and optimized databases and applications, changed processing run times, and performed many other tasks all aimed at improving that performance. Some or all of these changes may have had an effect at speeding up a system — but if the actual root of the proble
BURBANK, CA — (Marketwire) — 07/27/11 — There are a couple different categories of free software. First is the "it comes with" variety, in which you actually pay for something, but something else comes with it for free. Some examples are Notepad, which comes with the operating system and is a very basic word processing program. Another would be Microsoft Paint, which can be used for basic illustration and manipulating of photo files.The second category would include the kind you j
BURBANK, CA — (Marketwire) — 07/21/11 — Virtual machines have meant a quantum leap in computing from numerous aspects. From a footprint standpoint, multiple servers can now be operated from one hardware platform, where before one server equaled one such platform. From an ease-of-use viewpoint, a user can now launch a complete server and utilize it for specific tasks — something unheard of in past years. As the technology evolves, such benefits will only improve and become more in number.Al
BURBANK, CA — (Marketwire) — 07/13/11 — Where a few years back saving energy was "nice to have," today it has become critical. Grossly excess carbon in our atmosphere along with dwindling natural resources extracted at spiraling costs have meant that companies, both from globally responsible and corporate economic points of view, have been forced to become very prudent in their consumption of power. Computing resources, consuming a lion-s share of that power, have become a prime t
