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AppAssure: Leveraging Virtualization for Application Assurance

Business continuity. Application assurance. Virtualization. Consider that a mission?]critical progression. Business continuity is essential for business productivity. Bluntly put, if people can't get their work done, it's impossible to realize revenue. The applications that are most central to the productivity of every staff person in the organization are e?]mail and...

Tags: Outage, Business Continuity, AppAssure Software, Application Assurance, Manufacturing, It Services, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Virtualization, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2009-04-16

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Learning English & Armenian Language 3.8 (Windows)

You'll get everything you need to speak Armenian in few days. It will help you memorize thousands of foreign words quickly and easily. It translates English and Armenian words and pronounces their translation aloud with native Armenian. Simply select a word and with one click have the pronounce of it....

Tags: Word, Armenian Dictionary Software, Module, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Software downloads 2009-10-07

Video Whitepaper: Rapid Bottleneck Identification: A better way to do load testing

Watch the free, on-demand video whitepaper to learn how to easily launch a critical Web application. Ensuring good application performance is crucial, but time is short. How can you optimally test the application and still meet your deadlines? Rapid bottleneck identification RBI is a new testing methodology that allows quality...

Tags: Oracle Corp., QA, On-demand, Web Application, Video, Rapid Bottleneck Identification, Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Corporate Communications, Performance Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Webcasts 2009-10-01

Methodologies & Tools For Web Application Security Assessment

Web application security assessments are a crucial phase in the development life-cycle of any web application. The process of assessing a web application should be handled using the same approach as any other testing (e.g., Unit testing, Quality Assurance, etc.). A well-documented methodology should be followed carefully, and in...

Tags: Web, Web Application, Web Application Security Assessment, Cloud Computing

White papers 2009-09-03

Who is the 90-day Windows 7 Enterprise trial aimed at exactly?

I don't understand you blog? You don't think there are not many businesses and organizations out there in the SMB market, for example, that fall into a large group that could benefit from trying windows 7 out? Are you saying buying a copy would be better? I don't get...

Tags: Adrian, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Two questions about Microsoft's future ...

Two questions about Microsoft's future ...The evil of subscriptionHow would an OS subscription be anything other than a complete rip-off to the end user? There are so many reasons why a subscription system would fail and fail badly. The cost of implementation, activation issues, anti-piracy concerns. All of this and...

Tags: Piracy, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., antipiracy, operating system, software

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform license

Read the fine print in Microsoft's new application platform licenseAs it should be...You need to pay to play with these fine products. If a company is so short-sighted that they let their APA run out, they deserve to be stripped of all products covered under said APA. Microsoft is slaving...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operational accounting, new application platform, Microsoft Corp., fine print, application platform, APA

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Winning the quality war: HP customers offer case studies on managing application performance

Quality early in application development sounds nice, but actually making it happen brings significant cost savings, repeatable quality assurance processes, higher user satisfaction, and shorter development cycles. The results reward developers, end users, and IT operators alike. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., QA, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-06-19

EMCO Network Inventory 5.5.3 (Windows)

No need to install any client on remote computers (NT4/W2K/XP/Vista) Discover all available machines on your network from a single click. Scan computers from a specific Domain name or from a range of IP Addresses. Custom Reports with SQL Support. SQL Query Builder. Enumerate Wizard. ODBC Driver. Windows Vista Support....

Tags: SQL, Option, EMCO, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Programming Languages, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-06-03

Coating Excellence International - Manuafacturer Gains Real-Time Production Data, Reduces Licensing Costs by 15 Percent

Coating Excellence International CEI manufactures high-quality, flexible-packaging products using environmentally friendly practices. To continue to enhance its quality and efficiency, CEI needed to provide its shop-floor operators and business decision makers with real-time production metrics and analysis tools in a solution that was quick to deploy and easy to manage...

Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Corp., Coating Excellence International, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-05-21

Verdict: XP Mode gets an F

Verdict: XP Mode gets an FIntention or just a MS way?Can anyone tell me what was the ONE operating system related thing Microsoft had actually managed to take from an idea to a product that would work as promised?This is either done or purpose to force people to transit to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, XP Mode

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

More Windows 7 XP Mode questions and more Microsoft answers

Over the past few days -- since word of Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC went public -- Microsoft has provided so far only the barest of details about its planned Virtual XP Mode functionality for Windows 7. Slowly but surely the company has started releasing additional details. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Microsoft Corp., Windows XP Mode, MJF, MED-V, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Books: Entering the Age of Glosses

Here's the key to thinking about the future of writing, something straight out of the manuscript era: the humble gloss or "scholia," for those who prefer the Latin. They are the notes, in margins, footnotes at the bottom of a page (the standard starting around 1700) and later in the...

Tags: Movie, Audible Inc., Cryptography, Books, Copy, Kindle, Master File, Page Number, E-books, Digital Security, Security, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Why all the fuss over XP Mode?

Why all the fuss over XP Mode?RE: Why all the fuss over XP Mode?Wow... MS is trying really hard this time...Good for them... I like the part of how they will include a licensed copy of xp for the client side... nicePlus, being separate from 7 allows them to...

Tags: Linux Distro, Microsoft Windows XP, XP Mode, fuss, Microsoft Windows 7, APP-V

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Microsoft adds legacy app support to Optimization Pack refresh

Microsoft is making available for download as of  April 1 the final version of its desktop-virtualization-management product that is designed to help Vista users run legacy Windows 2000 and Windows XP apps. The spring 2009 refresh of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack MDOP is out as of...

Tags: Legacy Application, Optimization, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, MED-V, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Virtualization, Desktop Virtualization, Asset Management, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Meridian Knowledge Solutions, LLC Streamlines Application Testing and Reduces Product Complaints

Meridian Knowledge Solutions wanted to redefine the responsibilities and accountability of quality assurance, particularly with the Meridian Global LMS product and meet customer needs to deploy applications faster, at lower cost and risk, and with higher quality of service. The challenge was to keep up with constant code changes, requirement...

Tags: Oracle Corp., QA

Case studies 2009-04-01

ExtraHop

Management of systems, applications and various services has always been challenging. Add virtualization into the mix and the task becomes much more complex. I've spoken with a number of companies that have taken it upon themselves to address this issue. This time, I had an opportunity to speak with Jessie...

Tags: Product, Extrahop Networks, ExtraHop Product, Web Site Development, Servers, Internet, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-03-31

QA Wizard Pro 2009 (Windows)

QA Wizard Pro completely automates the functional and regression testing of Web, Windows, and Java applications, helping quality assurance teams increase test coverage and deliver high quality solutions faster. Built on a flexible architecture that is easily extended to support new technologies and frameworks, Seapine Software's QA Wizard Pro can...

Tags: QA, Java, Microsoft Windows, Seapine Software

Software downloads 2009-03-31

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11: Lots of Tech but Short on Polish

At first glance, Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) is virtually indistinguishable from the company's Free/Open Source and community supported Linux distribution, openSUSE 11.1. But does SLED 11 have the extra polish and the value add to justify its position as Novell's premier enterprise...

Tags: Novell Inc., SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE Linux, SuSE, Linux, Open Source, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, UNIX, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Facing Microsoft licensing decisions? Bridge the gap between Operations and Sourcing

Whether or not to sign or renew an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft is a sticky question that many organizations face. For many companies out there, their spend on Microsoft licensing can be a significant portion of a company's IT budget, whether it be Enterprise Agreements or Select License agreements. Some...

Tags: Software, Sourcing, Virtualization, Server, Microsoft Corp., Software Assurance, Chris Voce

Blog posts 2009-03-02