The format is simple – you do the clicking and we donate the cash.  Watch our new Security 3.0 video and if we get to 1000 hits on you tube before 1st December 2010 £1000 will go to the NSPCC.  Please watch this video and forward out to your contacts and do your bit for [...]

Security 3.0 has landed and to mark the launchANS Group has pledged to donate £1,000 to the NSPCC if over 1000 people view our new Security 3.0 video on YouTube before November 1st 2010.
Security 3.0 is a new era in security and provides an innovative solution to defend critical business processes against attack and disruption, [...]

With the release of Unified Communications version 8.0 Cisco has released full support for running Cisco UC Applications in a Virtualised environment.
There are a few caveats around what applications you can run and what hardware and hypervisor you can run them on.  The only supported hypervisor for the moment is VMware ESXi 4.0 running on [...]

NetApp has finally released SnapDrive for Windows 6.3 to GA:
https://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/snapdrive_win/6.3/
It includes an amazing bit of functionality in the application consistent snapshots without the need for FC/iSCSI RDMS:

Support for performing Snapshot copy operations on virtual machine disks (VMDKs) in an NFS or VMFS datastore, which requires Virtual Storage Console 2.0.1 or later. Please check the availability [...]

NetApp are about to release two new disk shelves that will make a big impact on the current portfolio.  we are still under NDA at the moment, but what I can tell you is check back here in a couple of days for more details on the following:

Smaller Form Factor – Shelf & Disks
New to [...]

Last week ANS Group were Gold Sponsors at VMware’s VForum event 2010.  We were at the exhibition to showacse our Infrastructure 3.0 solution.  Thanks for visiting our stand if you were there, and we hope you enjoyed the live VDI demos!
If you missed out in Manchester, visit our stand at the London event on March 25th [...]

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Exchange 2010…. What’s all the fuss about ??

Cisco UCS… A VDI Burn-in!
It was a cold a damp day as i arrived at Cisco’s UK CPOC Lab at Bedfont Lakes, but all that was to warm up at the sight of the UCS Deployment ready to take on the challenge of VDI.
Nice opening there i thought, now down to the detail…
So, the challenge [...]

I came across some infor posted on a MS Blog site yesterday, whilst we cant share a lot of information on the next version of Office Communications Server 2010 or Wave 14, here is a little snippet: