Are you familiar with virtualization tools for your computer or maybe your server? Well you might want to consider looking into it if you are in the IT field as virtualization technologies are on the rise in popularity and in demand as well. Evidence of that would be the recent 3rd quarter announcement by one of the leading companies in virtual technology market VMware. Even with the terrible slides in the stock market over the last few months the company is reporting a 29% increase in their net reporting. Continue Reading »

Hey Microsoft you all better look out there appears to be a new competitor for the business of the corporate world. Cisco Systems has made a play over the last few years to expand beyond their data pushing gear technology. They just announced a deal that would complete a nice little package of office communication software that may be able to rival some of the perennials like Microsoft and IBM.

Let’s look at what they have manage to do over the last few years, starting with their latest announcement that they have inked a deal to take over Jabber Inc. Continue Reading »

More and more companies around the world are moving their organizations software running programs to a web based software. Why are they doing this? Online software based programs that organize your business run the communications or track databases for you are the way of the world and will be for years to come. When companies place their software technologies online for use by their customers and employees they increase the reach of their organization to the world not just their local neighborhood.

Running your business online with web based software is Continue Reading »

The big software giant on the block continues to gobble up smaller companies and new technologies to further their reach into everyday applications. Microsoft hot off the heels of their pursuit of Yahoo which is probably not over acquired another tech company in their pursuit to try and expand the user base for their flailing Vista operating system. Check out the following funny video about some of the shortcomings of Vista. Also read the article regarding Microsoft’s recent acquisitions and what their intentions may be with those new companies. Finally please share your comments about Microsoft buying up these smaller companies to further their own gains.

Windows Vista Funny Commercial

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Microsoft Making Moves in the Desktop Virtualization Space

Microsoft announced today some pretty aggressive moves in the desktop virtualization space. First, they announced their acquisition of Calista Technologies, which optimizes the remote display protocol used in hosted and other VDI-like solutions. Technology like Calista’s, along with their alliance with Citrix, are important to VDI-like solutions to give end-users an acceptable user experience, especially with interactive or multimedia-rich applications.
Microsoft also loosened Vista virtualization licensing to allow Vista Home Basic and Home Premium to be run on a virtual machine. This is good news for all involved, as users no longer have to spend the extra money on the more expensive Vista Business or Ultimate editions just to run them in a virtual machine. They also announced official support for Microsoft Office running as a virtualized application. Continue Reading »