From Microsoft's latest Surface device to a Star Wars special edition of Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 Plus, here's the hardware we tested in December.
From new Apple devices to a range of smartphones and activity trackers, here's what our reviewers tested during November.
From Samsung's class-leading Android device to a slew of new watches and an electric bike, here's the kit we tested in February.
<p>Combining comprehensive backup, monitoring and virtual machine (VM) replication tools for VMware’s <a href="http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/os/0,1000001098,39282802,00.htm">Virtual Infrastructure 3</a>, <a href="http://www.vizioncore.com/esxEssentials.html">Vizioncore esxEssentials</a> provides the main utilities needed to manage VMs in a datacentre environment. Priced at £509 (ex. VAT) with one year's support, or £649 with three years' support, the esxEssentials pack costs less than buying the individual applications separately. The suite was originally launched last summer, and has recently been updated with new versions of <a href="http://www.vizioncore.com/esxRangerPro.html">esxRanger</a> and <a href="http://www.vizioncore.com/esxCharter.html">esxCharter</a>. </p>
Hard disk drive fragmentation is a major cause of performance bottlenecks. It can also cause crashes, slowdowns, freeze-ups and even total system failures. Although Windows comes with its own defrag utility (which was also developed by Executive Software), it requires a manual process to keep track of fragmentation levels and takes forever to run on large hard disks.
Hard disk drives are lousy at housekeeping. When files are created, deleted or modified it's a certainty they will become fragmented. This reduces their performance and reliability, as their drive heads have to search for all the pieces of data in different locations. Defragmenting a hard disks helps to reorganise non-contiguous files into contiguous files and optimise their placement on the hard disk for increased reliability and performance.
<p> <a href="http://www.symantec.com/en/uk/business/backup-exec-for-windows-servers">Backup Exec 2010</a> has been a long time coming. Towards the middle of 2009, Symantec promised it would deliver software deduplication in its backup products and it has, at last, arrived. </p>
Diskeeper's easy-to-deploy defragmentation tool requires little management to keep virtual machine storage in tip-top condition, without adversely affecting the activities of other VMs on the same hypervisor or storage network.
<p> It's been a couple of years since Microsoft launched <a href="http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/enterpriseapplications/0,1000001813,39290946,00.htm">System Center Essentials 2007</a>, giving mid-sized businesses access to the same system management tools as enterprises in a more affordable and usable format. <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee470676.aspx">System Center Essentials 2010</a> (SCE 2010), which is now available as a <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee470677.aspx">Release Candidate</a>, majors on the ability to manage virtual as well as physical machines. The console interface also gets an overhaul in the new release, and it's designed to be much easier to deploy by the IT generalists who are typically charged with getting it to work. </p>
<p> It's two years since AVM's iconic <a href="http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/networking/0,1000000696,39283263,00.htm">Fritz!Box 7050</a> appeared in the UK, combining a Wi-Fi-equipped broadband router with the basic features of a PBX. Now the Germans are back, with integrated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECT">DECT</a> and fast <a href=" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft-N">Draft-N</a> 802.11n Wi-Fi. </p>
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