Citrix XenServer - Virtualisation for every server in the enterprise

Request your free 30 day trial of Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer is server virtualisation that makes datacenters more agile and efficient through faster application delivery, higher levels of availability and improved utilisation of resources. Techworld has teamed up with Citrix to offer our users a free 30 day trial of the new release.

XenServer delivers the advanced features required by mission critical workloads without sacrificing the ease-of-use necessary for wide scale deployments. The unique provisioning technology of XenServer can rapidly deliver workloads across virtual or physical servers making it the ideal virtualisation platform for every server in the enterprise.

XenServer takes just 10 minutes to install and configure. It allows administrators the visibility to easily keep track of virtual machines as they proliferate across large datacenters. Web 2.0 style tagging and searching capabilities allow IT professionals to assign metadata and virtual tags to workloads, either pre-defined or customized to each organization’s needs. XenServer’s performance monitoring, reporting and alerting dashboards make it easy to see both real-time and historical views of virtual machines and physical host performance over long periods of time with virtually no storage or performance overhead.

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PLEASE NOTE: If you register for a new account, you must confirm your account by clicking on the link in the email you will be sent before you can proceed. This step is necessary as a security measure to protect your identity from use without your permission. Once you are confirmed and logged in, you will able to download the Citrix XenServer.

Spiceworks IT Desktop

Techworld has teamed up with Spiceworks to offer our users a free tool for managing and monitoring your computing, network and software assets. The software is also used for identifying problems when they occur. It runs on Windows and once installed, it runs in the background and appears as a small icon in the taskbar’s notification area. You configure and use the software via a browser-based interface.

• An inventory section tells you about your network and/or the kit attached there to. Items ("assets") can be created manually or discovered automatically. You can split the devices into categories, and define new classifications.
• A reports section will run off lists of entities on the network that satisfies your chosen criteria. There are plenty of built-in reports (computers without AV software, summaries of disk usage by device, comparisons of installed software versus known license counts, and so on) and defining your own customised reports.
• The "My Spiceworks" section is as a dashboard overview of your world. It’s split into a series of sections, termed "widgets". There’s a default set of widgets, but it’s easy to define your own; there’s loads of different types of stuff you can add, from Spiceworks-specific stuff such as lists of alerts, the inventory summary or outstanding helpdesk tickets through to free-text notes or RSS feeds.

The Spiceworks IT Desktop is now available free for registered users of Techworld.com. Please click below to register / sign in and download your complimentary copy.

PLEASE NOTE: If you register for a new account, you must confirm your account by clicking on the link in the email you will be sent before you can proceed. This step is necessary as a security measure to protect your identity from use without your permission. Once you are confirmed and logged in, you will able to download the Spiceworks IT Desktop.