Another year is almost over. I have been in a festive frame of mind now for a few weeks. I am looking forward to Christmas with my family and the bright eyes of my children.
I wanted to take this opportunity to wish my regular readers a happy festive season.
This blog has kept me fairly busy [...]

Intel has begun shipping its latest solid-state drives, the X18-M and X25-M. The latest in high performance solid-state drives promises to bring faster performance, quicker boot and resume times. The devices also use less power and can give up to nine times improved performance over traditional hard drives.
The two sizes available are 80GB and 160GB [...]

Microsoft has announced a new push for virtualization called “Get Virtual Now”.  The series of events will outline how partners and Microsoft customers can benefit from virtualization now.  
The platinum sponsors include Citrix Systems, Dell, Hitachi, AMD, HP, IBM and many more.
The latest virtualization products will certainly make virtualization with Microsoft look more attractive. 
Microsoft Hyper-V [...]

Citrix Systems has announced the release date for XenApp 5.0. The latest version of the application delivery suite will be released on the 10 Sep 2008.
XenApp 5.0 is promising an overall improved end-user experience, with applications launching up to 10 times faster. Application virtualization and streaming technology has also been improved from XenApp 4.5.
Isolation 3.0 [...]