VMware vSphere 4 licensing shows contempt for customers

July 31, 2009

By now you have read that VMware has released vSphere 4 with new capabilities and features.  But did you know that they changed their licensing model?  There are lots of changes to accept and for a lot of us, the cost just went up a notch.  Surprise!  At no time did VMware notify their users […]

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Bad Behavior Workaround – Dealing with Windows Live

May 9, 2009

I have been working with Windows 7 recently and since it does not ship with Windows Messenger, I had to install Windows Live Messenger on it.  In doing so, I noticed a lot of new features in that product, including integration with a number of Web 2.0 items.  One of those features is to add […]

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Easy E-mail disclaimers using Policy Patrol

May 4, 2009

We’ve all been there.  The CEO, corporate council and/or other executives are demanding that the company have a legal disclaimer at the end of all E-mail messages.  Their obvious solution is to demand that every user put the disclaimer at the end of their signature block.  That quickly becomes a nightmare as every internal message […]

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IBM Systems Director 6.1 — still no joy

April 19, 2009

I previously wrote about the problems and issues with version 5.20.x and that we were looking forward to seeing what 6.1 was going to provide.  Well, we downloaded version 6.0 and it is a significantly different product; even changing the name to IBM Systems Director.  For starters, it no longer uses a thick client for administration, […]

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FreePDF XP – Great tool at a great price

March 15, 2009

Like a lot of companies, we have been looking for alternatives to giving our users a full copy of Adobe Acrobat.  Not because of the features or capabilities, which are plentiful, but because the price ($449) is way too high for what most users need.  I would say that most people are simply converting Microsoft Office documents […]

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DRS Affinity Rules in ESX: exclusion needs improvement

January 16, 2009

In setting up a Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) cluster, there are various reasons to want to separate or group client systems together.  For example, you may have a set of systems that communicate constantly in processing information and therefore you want them to be on the same ESX host.  On the other side, you may […]

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