Wednesday - February 20, 2008
What is virtualization anyway? The short answer is, virtualization is separating the physical layer from the logical layer -- the operating systems and applications. You can virtualize pretty much any aspect of IT. "There is no universal definition of virtualization as it means many things to many people and can apply to the entire infrastructure -- from data center virtualization, desktop virtualization, storage virtualization, etc.," said Lionel Lamy, research director at IDC.
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Sunday - February 10, 2008
Game developers are slowly warming to the idea of producing more games for the Mac platform. Presently, it's possible to find a handful of famous titles from top-tier game makers. However, if you're looking for intense, graphics-heavy games -- the type of games best played on top-of-the-line machines -- you're mostly out of luck.
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Tuesday - January 22, 2008
One year after Microsoft's Vista operating system came to market, the company announced a change to its end-user licensing agreement, now allowing users to run the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions in a virtual environment. The move is good news for consumers, who can run the OS on any machine, but it's even better news for IT administrators.
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Thursday - January 17, 2008
If you want to judge the intensity of a given conference or trade show -- in this case, Macworld -- there are several barometers you can look at. Are the main vendors' booths madhouses? Are there still lines in front of the free video games? Do you have to fight for a seat in the press lounge? Are national news crews still clogging up floor space for their video cameras and lights?
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Wednesday - December 12, 2007
As calendars flip forward for the start of 2008, SWsoft, maker of Parallels software that allows Windows to run on Intel-based Macs, will take on a new moniker, the company announced Wednesday. In January, SWsoft will be known simply as "Parallels." Along with its new name, the company will unveil a new logo and refresh its line of products.
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Tuesday - November 20, 2007
IBM announced a new addition to its BladeCenter portfolio Monday designed to make its blade servers more open and easy to use. IBM's BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager provides I/O virtualization that can help reduce the cost and complexity to enterprise users through its open architecture, the company said.
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Thursday - November 15, 2007
Apple released an update to top all updates Wednesday. Included in the massive bundle -- aimed primarily at users of Apple's Tiger operating system -- is the just-out-of-beta Safari 3 as well as about 44 fixes for a spate of security flaws. The software maker's latest batch of updates and security fixes in its combo update weigh in at a whopping 321.5 MB.
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Thursday - November 15, 2007
Touting its long history of supercomputing and grid computing expertise and citing the "extreme scale" potential of highly distributed processing, IBM is unveiling a series of cloud computing offerings based on open standards and open source software. The initiative will help enterprises distribute computing across a "globally accessible fabric of resources."
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Tuesday - November 13, 2007
VMware has released an update of its Fusion desktop virtualization software for Intel-based Macs, the company announced Monday. Fusion 1.1 includes support for Leopard, the latest version of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, as well as more than 25 enhancements and improvements. "We have been extremely pleased with the success of VMware Fusion," said VMware's Dan Chu.
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Wednesday - August 29, 2007
With Apple's move to Intel-based processors, the speed and ease of running Windows operating systems on your Mac has never been easier and more effective. In fact, there are several options available for running Windows software on Macs that fall into the basic, you-can't-go-wrong space: Apple's Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop for Mac and VMware's Fusion.
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Tuesday - August 28, 2007
Parallels has launched the latest beta for its Parallels Desktop for Mac software, an application that allows Intel-based Mac users to run a Windows operating system simultaneously on their Apple computers. Beta 2 of the Parallels Desktop 3.0 update focuses on features that allow Mac owners to automatically share movies, pictures, music, documents and even desktops.
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