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Canberra-based service provider Infront Systems has double-trumped a dozen of its far larger multinational competitors to win a lucrative virtualisation software licensing deal with welfare agency Centrelink.
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This is a powerful performance monitoring and reporting system for servers running VMware ESX Server. Web-based dashboards show the resources in use by servers and their VMs, while the reporting module delivers printable reports of historical data.
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The appliance format of the Kbox 1000 puts a new slant on systems management, making the process significantly easier, quicker and more affordable compared to traditional software-only solutions.
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