I received a loaner unit of the AdderLink IPEPS VNC hardware and have posted a brief review of it after giving it a spin. The IPEPS means “IP Engine Per Server” and as its name suggests, allows you to connect to and manage remote servers via IP.
The IPEPS is interesting in that it’s essentially […]

I have just posted the second installation of my server room migration series that started off with the imaginatively titled (not!) piece, Lessons learned from a server room migration.
The new article, Dealing with vendors: Read before signing on the dotted line, talks exactly about - yes you guessed it, contract signing time.  I know it […]

You might be the IT manager, departmental head, or perhaps just the chap that your boss put in charge of IT because of your slightly better literacy than the rest of your department.
Regardless of the size of your company however, you will definitely come across situations where you have to liaise with external IT vendors […]

Saw an article about thin clients on Network World recently. Essentially, it talks about how Verizon Wireless is currently heavily involved in a project project to replace thousands of call center PCs with Sun Microsystems’ thin client terminals.
By switching over to thin clients, Verizon was able to obtain both direct savings in terms of […]

According to their press release, Research In Motion (RIM) will let developers create applications for BlackBerry phones using Microsoft’s .NET programming environment.
The ability will come in the form of a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio that lets developers to write application that integrate with existing back-end servers through .NET Web Services, according to RIM. […]

Looks like VMware is moving for an IPO. As the virtualization market approaches full maturity, things certainly look set to move very quickly indeed in the next few years. Basically, the three major players at the moment are VMware itself, Microsoft’s Virtual Server, and the open-sourced Xen.

An article from Network World just caught my eyes. Much like what I wrote last week about The death of the anti-virus software, New approaches to malware detection coming into view notes that “traditional signature-based method to detecting viruses and other malware is increasing seen as an insufficient defense given the rapid pace at […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd has just announced a software application that will run on Windows Mobile 6.0, allowing it to work like a BlackBerry. Basically, a user would be able to toggle back and forth between the two platforms if they want, for example, to use the Windows Media Player to listen […]