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Microsoft's Hyper-V: why all the fuss?
Tech Guide Microsoft's Hyper-V is the missing piece from the launch of Windows Server 2008. We examine its background, and predict how the hypervisor market is likely to develop.
Inside Intel's Penryn
Tech Guide Intel's new Penryn family of processors introduces a new 45nm fabrication process, along with a few architectural improvements.
Benchmarks: Intel's first 45nm Penryn chip
Tech Guide The 3GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9650, Intel's first 45nm processor, has a total of 12MB of Level 2 cache at its disposal. This benchmark test shows what else the new chip has to offer.
Microsoft's unified communications suite
Tech Guide Microsoft's Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 enable IT departments to provide presence, instant messaging (IM) and voice functionality to users located on either side of the corporate firewall.
AMD's Barcelona: benchmarks
Tech Guide AMD's long-awaited quad-core server CPUs finally arrived last month, with clock speeds up to 2GHz. So how do they perform? We have some preliminary results.
10 ways to increase Vista's performance
Tech Guide Windows Vista has some great new security and functionality features, as well as a host of graphical tricks. However, if you find Vista's performance lagging, take heart: here's how to make Vista run faster.
Security and wireless networking
Tech Guide The security of wireless networks is often overlooked, particularly in smaller businesses and in the home. Here's a guide to the issues, and some best-practice suggestions.
Vista in the enterprise
Tech Guide Things move slowly in the enterprise market, so Windows Vista is currently a rare sight on the corporate desktop. But will Vista's undoubted benefits eventually unblock the upgrade path?
How will the iPhone impact IT and business users?
Tech Guide The arrival of the iPhone is a watershed moment in mobile computing, not just for consumers but for businesses as well.
Blade PCs: the ultimate managed desktops
Tech Guide If you want total control over users' desktops, putting their PCs on blades in the datacentre is one increasingly popular solution.
iPhone insecurity
Tech Guide Apple hasn't always treated security researchers with respect. Maybe that will change with the release of the iPhone and Leopard OS.
A guide to desktop management
Tech Guide Desktop (and notebook) PCs present a huge headache for IT managers: looking after hardware and software inventory, configuration, security, patching and software licences, for example, can make serious inroads into the IT budget. We examine the technologies and tools that can make the job easier.
Blades and business
Tech Guide How do you juggle the competing demands for more computing power and data storage capacity with the need to keep power costs to a minimum? Blade servers may be the answer.
A guide to server efficiency
Tech Guide The cost of powering and cooling server hardware is fast becoming a critical issue for IT managers, while the demand for ever more computing muscle in the datacentre continues to grow. What can be done? We examine some of the options.
Inside Intel's Santa Rosa platform
Tech Guide Improvements to the processor, chipset and wireless components of Intel's latest mobile platform should result in a new generation of faster notebooks with longer battery life. Business systems will also get Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) for the first time, while Turbo Memory should reduce the frequency of hard disk accesses, saving power and boosting performance.
