9 Bargain IT Tools For SMBs
12/14/2012 Stretch your IT budget with open source and free products and services. Added win: Open source tools' opportunity for customization.
12/14/2012 Stretch your IT budget with open source and free products and services. Added win: Open source tools' opportunity for customization.
vSphere Hypervisor For Free Virtualization
VMware's vSphere Hypervisor is its starter kit for SMBs and others taking the virtualization plunge for the first time -- ostensibly to get them hooked on the platform as their needs grow. It's not open source, but it's free. "[It allows] plenty of flexibility and usability," Thorpe said. "We are running 20-plus virtual servers on a couple of ESXi physical hosts at the moment. Licensing fees only apply to my subset of Active Directory servers."
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