EMC today releases its Project Lightning PCIe flash cards. The 300GB VFCache cards are used to cache and store information directly on the server. This acts as a bridge between the storage layer and the processor offering very high throughput and low-latency alone the way.   Couple this with FAST – Fully Automated Storage Tiering [...]

Right. This one really bugs me. Out for dinner or beers and somebody – if not everybody keeps checking, texting, using their mobile. You spend the night being constantly interrupted, only having half conversations and not really getting anywhere… Sound familiar Try this the next time you are out for dinner with a group of [...]

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Research in Motion (RIM) have just launched Blackberry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 ‘BlackBerry Business Cloud Services delivers a simple and affordable way for companies to manage BlackBerry smartphones with Microsoft® Office 365.   This service is available at no additional charge to Microsoft Office 365 subscribers. This secure service, hosted by Research [...]

Twitter Hack Week 2012   Small teams of staff split out into groups and work on any project of their choice – no interference from management – this is purely down to the teams to come up with something new.  Nice way to drive innovation into any org if you ask me.   One project [...]

  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… [...]