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Coming Soon!   Dear Partner, Acronis® is pleased to pre-announce an update to Acronis Backup & Recovery® 11.5 adding new Agent for Microsoft® SQL Server, the unique solution for Microsoft SQL Server featuring single-pass backup. Acronis patent-pending single-pass backup technology combines two backups in one, eliminating the need to have separate strategies for data protection and disaster recovery on Microsoft … Read More

Join the Beta program for NAKIVO Backup & Replication v3.0   File level recovery from local, offsite, and cloud backups NEW Single-click integration with Amazon cloud NEW 60 seconds installation Exceptionally intuitive, Web 2.0, tablet-ready interface Local and offsite VM backup and replication with up to 1 minute RPO Application & database aware backup & replication (AD, Exchange, SQL, Oracle, … Read More

The Cloud today seems a bit like Dawson City in 1896 when the Klondike Gold Rush was about to get underway. Everybody is talking about the Cloud, and many want a piece of the action. The Open Source world has been abuzz with OpenStack in particular, with some going so far as to call it “the new Linux”. Unfortunately, Cloud … Read More

Unlimited scalability for high performance Scale without disrupting data access: Red Hat Storage Server for On-premise is a POSIX-compatible, scale-out NAS and object storage software solution designed for unlimited scalability. Add compute, I/O bandwidth, or storage as needed to meet changing capacity and performance needs—to greater than petabytes—without disrupting data access. Modular, stackable design: Configure and tune Red Hat Storage … Read More

#1 VM Backup Now available Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition Veeam Backup & Replication Cloud Edition is now available! In the cloud or on disk; flexibility is key for backup in a virtual environment. Your Veeam Backup & Replication users now have the option to use their public storage cloud as an easy-to-use data repository for their backups. Sell … Read More

Seven years after Red Hat snatched JBoss out from under Larry Ellison’s nose, the enterprise Linux distributor is continuing to squeeze the juice from the open-source application server. Red Hat spent $350m buying JBoss in 2006 and today it forms the technology backbone and the brand-name basis of Red Hat’s enterprise middleware suite.  And, as Red Hat grows, so does … Read More

While the Linux 3.8 kernel hasn’t even been released yet, several of the noteworthy features slated to be merged for the Linux 3.9 kernel are already known. More of the features of the Linux 3.9 kernel will be known as soon as its merge window opens in the coming weeks following the 3.8 availability, and as the “-next” branches for … Read More

NAKIVO Backup & Replication is now available free of charge to all VMware vExperts, VMware Certified Professionals (VCPs), VMware Certified Instructors (VCIs), and VMUG members. In addition to their day-to-day duties, VMware professionals run their home and work labs to try and learn new software, verify new concepts and ideas, and run pre-production tests. “We are pleased to provide VMware … Read More

No Heroes is an in-development First Person Shooter by one man behind Drunken Lizard Games featuring parkour, fun gameplay, realistic physics and more! The game will be released sometime in 2013. Pretty amazing considering it’s done by one person, another one to keep a close eye on, Linux seriously needs FPS games like this one, we have a lot of … Read More

So rumors are swirling right now that Microsoft is considering releasing Microsoft Office for Linux. I suppose that this might have been big news…about ten years ago. But does anybody really care at this point if Microsoft Office runs on Linux? I sure don’t, and here’s why. Linux Office Suites Linux has a number of office suites and office type … Read More

Linux has won the desktop wars and Tux now represents the dominant desktop operating system. We’ve been in this position for a while now. The reason many of us haven’t recognized it is because this win doesn’t look anything like we thought it would. When wishes come true, they’re rarely what we envisioned. To make my point, I’ll take us … Read More

One theory about why Microsoft lent $2 billion as part of a deal to take Dell private is that Microsoft plans to use its newfound influence with the company to stop Dell from further building Linux hardware. Is that really the case, or just a conspiracy theory? Computerworld reports that according to analysts, Microsoft lent the $2 billion in order … Read More

There are more signs emerging that some of the biggest global technology players in the hardware space are warming up to open source operating systems, even as they appear to cool toward Microsoft Windows. Recently, we’ve reported on Chromebooks running the Chrome OS platform, and how they have improved dramatically, and are now available at $200 price points that challenge … Read More

The computer giant today confirms that CEO Michael Dell and investment firm Silver Lake are paying $13.65 per share, while Microsoft is contributing a $2 billion loan. (Credit: Dell) Dell will be taken private for $24.4 billion, or $13.65 a share, in a transaction announced today that will allow the company to try to turn itself around without the pressure … Read More

VMware (VMW) managed to tank the whole cloud sector yesterday, with weak guidance sending the stock plummeting over $21/share in a single session. The irony is that VMware isn’t really a cloud company. It sells virtualization software, which is just an element in cloud computing. Its problems stem from parent EMC’s efforts to develop a cloud strategy. The downdraft was … Read More