Enterprise guide to Windows 10
Windows 10 is now available for consumers, but for IT executives thinking about enterprise deployments, here's what the upgrade path from Window 7 or Windows 8/8.1 looks like.
Stories by Tom Henderson
In Pictures: Best business-class tablets for front office and factory floor
In this review, we looked at two types of business-class tablets, traditional tablets used by the sales force or other front-office workers, and ruggedised devices that can be used on the factory floor or other back-office environments.
In Pictures: What’s new in SUSE Linux 12?
SUSE 12 is a broad set of Linux distributions ranging from desktop through enterprise level. We tested several instances and found them quite ready for enterprise use. All in all, SUSE 12 is a worthy competitor to Red Hat and Ubuntu in the enterprise Linux market.
In Pictures: Ubuntu 14.04: The good, the bad, the Unity
Ubuntu 14.04 Long Term Support/LTS (Trusty Tahr) proves that it doesn’t matter if you’re Oracle, Microsoft, or Canonical: Bringing a fleet of products into new release revision synch is tough.
In Pictures: HP’s giant ProLiant: The good, the bad, the UEFI
Massive 60-core DL580 Gen8 challenges big iron from IBM, Oracle
In Pictures: Apple Mavericks - The good, the bad, the upgrade
Apple Mavericks (OS X 10.9) is a free upgrade that compiles items Apple has released since the last of the Big Cat OS X versions
My journey from Macs to Mint
I saw the commercial. Buying a Mac would throw a rock through the window of mundane, non-graphical computing.
VMware vSphere 5.5 bulks up with more muscle, high-availability
VMware's latest salvo in its virtualization war with Microsoft is vSphere 5.5, which features a host of improvements, the most interesting being high availability, support for Big Data/Hadoop and improved storage and backup.
In Pictures: 10 things we love about Windows Server 2012 R2
In Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft has released a compelling operating system update that’s targeted directly at its virtualisation and Cloud competition. Here are 10 things we like about Windows Server 2012 R2.
Microsoft takes off the gloves with Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
In Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1, Microsoft has released a combination of operating system updates that we find very compelling. Microsoft has joined much of the rest of the industry in annual release roll-ups with feature additions, and this time, they listened to the critics. More interesting are the one-upmanship features targeted directly at its virtualization and cloud competition. Some were stunning, despite a few strange and perhaps anecdotal basic problems that we found.
In Pictures: Citrix wins VDI faceoff
VMware, Microsoft score high in test of hosted virtual desktop infrastructure
Cloud activity to explode in 2012
In testing cloud computing services and observing the growth of cloud activities, we've noticed that there are distinct phases that organizations go through in adopting cloud.
10 things you need to know about Windows 7
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/011509-win-love-hate.html">Windows 7</a> officially ships on Thursday, which means end users and administrators running Windows XP (and to a lesser extent, Windows Vista) have some interesting decisions to make.
A closer look at Novell OpenSUSE 10.1
OpenSUSE 10.1 — Novell’s attempt to keep a general-purpose version of its Linux freely available to the open source community — is both aided by and suffers from the lack of attention from Novell.
Novell OES marries NetWare and Linux
Depending on how you look at it, Novell’s Open Enterprise Server is either more of the same old stuff, or a major breakthrough in how advanced services can be built to run on a variety of base operating system kernels.