Sure we know all about the cloud – or do we.   Technology has moved at an unbelievable pace over the past few years.  The days of having the standard windows/UNIX, storage, network engineers, while still valuable may be numbered.  No longer can you just rely on this to get by, achieve company goals and [...]

  Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 is a free office suite that offers a number of features for creating, viewing and editing personal and business documents. Kingsoft Office Free 2012 includes Kingsoft Writer, Kingsoft Presentation and Kingsoft spreadsheets. These three reliable and versatile programs are perfect for both personal use at home and for professional [...]

Mozy Stash is now in public Beta.   A new product arrives into public beta from Mozy.  Mozy Stash is a file syncronisation feature that allows users to keep their most frequent data up to date.  Once you place a file in your stash it becomes available across all your computers instantly – no need for a [...]

Over 1 million IT pros rely on SolarWinds free network monitoring, application monitoring, and storage monitoring tools.   Download yours today! Inactive User Account Removal Tool Enables you to scan Active Directory and optionally remove users who have not logged in for a certain amount of time  Inactive Computer Account Removal Tool Enables you to scan [...]

From the How to series – Bootable ESXi 5 USB in 5 easy steps   ESXi 5 has been out in the wild for quite some time now and most of you should be looking at upgrading at some stage.  Here is a quick way to make a bootable USB stick in 5 easy steps… [...]

Due to hit Earth on Tuesday (Today) is the biggest Solar storm and radiation blast since 2005. This is due to an eruption that happened on Jan 22 which has launched a shed load of energized solar particles towards us at about 2,000 kilometers per second. Dont panic just yet as there is no direct [...]

Gearing up for Twitter’s self-serve advertising launch — currently in beta stage with only a small selection of advertisers — the company announced its acquisition of spam and malware protection service Dasient on Monday.   Dasient will be integrated into Twitter’s “revenue engineering team because they have a deep understanding of advertising-platform security issues,” says Rachael Horwitz, [...]

If you have to enter credential twice when accessing VMware  check the following: Confirm that the Agent/Client installation or configuration is correct. During installation, select Log in as current user. Verify that disclaimers or login banners are not being used when using PCoIP as the display protocol.  This issue occurs if a legal disclaimer GPO is configured. When this [...]

If you are having issue with multi-monitor setting while using PCoIP resulting in any of the following Unable to connect to a multi-monitor PCoIP session on a VMware View virtual desktop Sessions do not span the desired number of screens Sessions span in the middle of your displays Check the following: Ensure that sufficient video memory (VRAM) is configured [...]

Hours after the Department of Justice announced it had shut down file-sharing site Megaupload, the Anonymous hacker collective launched extensive retaliatory DDoS attacks against federal and entertainment industry Websites. – Almost immediately after federal prosecutors shut down Megaupload.com on charges of violating piracy laws, Twitter and online forums exploded with chatter about revenge and retaliation. Federal prosecutors shut down file-sharing service [...]