Kerio Connect 7.3 is a more appropriate messaging and collaboration server for organisations with between 50 and 500 employees than Microsoft Exchange or Google Apps, company officials claim.  

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have announced a $US250 million investment in their new 'infrastructure to application' model aimed at simplifying IT in small to big businesses.

The problem with corporate networks is they not only stop the bad guys coming in but also your users who want to work remotely, whether at home, at a client site or on the road. Here is where a VPN product comes in, and the simplest to deploy on Windows is a Linux virtual appliance called OpenVPN.

Although Microsoft is promising Windows 7 is a “major update” to Vista, which in many ways it is, the next version of Windows Server 2008 won’t be called Windows Server 7 but instead “Windows Server 2008 R2” in what is a case of slight mixed messages from Microsoft.

Windows HPC Server 2008 is the latest member of Microsoft's operating systems family to go into production. HPC - high performance computing - is aimed at customers with major number-crunching tasks.

Microsoft wants you to 'Get Virtual Now' and in order to help things along will let you have a copy of Hyper-V Server 2008 absolutely free...