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View PSTs without Outlook with this FREEWARE called Outlook Viewer

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Friday Freebie is here! There are times that you wand to open a PST file and you don’t have Outlook configured and installed on your system. You might have some old PSTs that you have backed up and need to view what’s inside. In this post we’ll have a look at this FREEWARE called Outlook […]

End of one Era – no more VMware perpetual licenses

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This was quite expected even if I did not expect this to happen that fast. VMware by Broadcom has announced a Simplification of VMware licensing. There will be two primary offers only (VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation). Both are available as subscriptions only. Perpetual licenses are no longer available for purchase. This was […]

VMware Workstation 2023 – Test the Tech Preview with new features!

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There is a new release of tech preview of VMware Workstation 2023. You have an opportunity to test this product and have a look at the latest features that this software will bring. VMware Workstation 2023 Tech Preview is the latest version of the virtualization software that is currently being developed by VMware. This version […]

WhatsUp Gold – Network traffic optimization and problem finding and fixing software

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An interesting network product called WhatsUp Gold took my attention recently. It’s built by admins for admins. When you read the latest release notes, you can see that many new features have been developed and integrated because of admins’ feature requests. WhatsUp Gold allows you to discover all your network’s active devices, analyze them, monitor […]

Best Desktop Performance Optimization Utility – VMware OS Optimization Tool

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VMware has productized one of their best Flings – VMware OS Optimization Tool (OSOT). If you have been around a long time enough you certainly remember this tool as a Fling, but no more. VMware has officially made it available within the Customer Connect portal. I think this tool is one of the Best Desktop […]

Ensuring security in the remote working world

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Securing remote workers is not easy in any environment. Whether it is in the small business company or large enterprise environment. In fact, it is quite a complex task because IT administrators has to work with compromises. On one side they’re asked to provide remote access to the company’s IT infrastructure and at the same […]

Maximize Business Resilience with Cloud Desktops

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User downtime is a problem that every organization faces one day or another. The importance is to be prepared and have a detailed plan. Many disaster recoveries (DR) scenarios are often incomplete, too complex to make it works or simply inexistant. A move from physical infrastructure to virtual systems that are clustered and providing high […]

Key metrics to consider when assessing the performance of your VDI/ DaaS environment

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Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) or Desktop As A Service (DaaS) services are a modern and flexible way to provide fully configured desktops with preinstalled applications that are ready to perform, to organizations. It is very important to be able to measure the actual performance of the service. When you have desktops that perform poorly, most […]

Cloud Desktops – the past, present and future

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There Is no single company that has not been exploring virtual desktops and its possibilities to meet their computing needs during 2020. Yes, the pandemics has completely transformed the way we work, but let’s look back a little bit to see from where we came from. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) was initially introduced to be […]