Category Archives: Blog

Come and meet us at Spiceworld 2013

Forza IT staff member Tino Todino will be at Spiceworld London 2013. Spiceworld is a great IT Conference where SMB IT pro’s can learn from others in the IT trenches, meet and party with fellow Spiceheads and tech vendors and … Continue reading

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Why you should Virtualize.

A great article and write up from our friend Scott Alan Miller on the benefits of virtualization for businesses of all sizes.  In fact Scott’s argument is that there should be a very good reason NOT to virtualize and that … Continue reading

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The Benefits of Hosted VoIP Telephony using Babblevoice

For about two years now Forza IT has been recommending, deploying and supporting hosted VoIP telephony solutions based on Babblevoice. If you have a reliable broadband connection and a router that supports Quality of Service (if you don’t we can … Continue reading

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Why you should root your Android phone and install a custom rom

A security researcher has found that a variety of Android, Blackberry and Nokia phones come installed with a piece of software that logs everything you do on your phone, remembering and sending every key stroke. As more and more important … Continue reading

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VMware Hypervisor – on your mobile phone!

Awesome news last month about VMware extending its hypervisor platform to smartphones enabling enterprise IT administrators to create, provision, monitor and manage a virtual corporate phone that will be running on an employee-owned smart phone. Imagine that, using an employee’s … Continue reading

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ESXi 5 on HP Microserver

Bit of a Microserver orientated news day but I thought I would write a short article to let people know that ESXi 5 (now officially called vSphere Hypervisor) is available for download from the VMware website and it works very … Continue reading

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HP Refreshes Microserver Series

HP may not know what they are doing when it comes to PC and Tablet hardware strategy but it really does know what it is doing in the server market. The popular HP Microserver series is being refreshed and launched … Continue reading

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Secunia PSI

With so many 3rd party tools available these days it can be quite a task for the average user to make sure they are all up-to-date with security patches.  Keeping things up-to-date ensures that your machine has the best chance … Continue reading

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Apple Lawsuit prevents sale of Samsung Galaxy Tab

News on the BBC website that Apple have been granted a ruling that prohibits Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1″ in Europe. BBC Article It is widely known that the claim -> Counter claim wranglings of these organisation simply … Continue reading

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VMware announce vSphere 5 licensing changes

VMware announce vRAM licensing changes in response to customer pressure. Continue reading

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