Just a quick note for those of you who are running Windows and OS X on your Mac machines via Parallels Desktop. Parallels has updated Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac and it now includes the ability to download and installs Windows 8 developer preview via one-click using the Parallels Wizard. You can update your installation more »

For those who run both Windows and OS X on their Macs, you’ll be glad to know that Parallels Desktop 7 is is now available and this new version brings in the much needed compatibility with Lion OS X. This means that you can enjoy some of the nice features of Lion including full screen more »

While everything is moving into the ever-popular cloud, Iomega is trying to convince us that physical storage is still the way to go. Sure, you could use web apps to store all your important files so you can access them from nearly everywhere, but wouldn’t you rather carry it around on a hard drive? Well, more »

VMWare announced that the city of Aurora, Colorado will use their management and visualization suite VMware Infrastructure 3 for different systems within the city. These systems include applications used by the town’s fire and police departments. This system will help deliver numerous services to town residents while consolidating the information technology resources.

With the VMware program, the town has downsized their 70 boxes down to 5, with each box running close to 20 VMs. By simplifying the management system and consolidating it as well, the town estimates that it will save their taxpayers thousands of dollars. Features include applications like VMotion technology, which has helped ensure application availability by allowing the IT staff to move VMs during routine maintenance of physical hosts or when potential problems come up. Another feature, the VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, adds or reduces resources for specific applications as demand ebbs and flows.