Excellent value for money, but a few performance glitches.

Excellent value for money, but a few performance glitches let BitDefender down.

While many sound cards on the market demand an often unjustified premium for extra features, the Xlerate Pro delivers A3D surround sound for DirectSound 3D and DirectX at a reasonable price.  

A reliable means of backing up virtual machines to prevent disasters.

Whatever size your business is, now is the time to bite the bullet and upgrade to Server 2008

Disk-imaging software can be put to many varied uses, and products like Drive Image prove particularly useful in our labs when upgrading to a new hard disk or for swiftly refreshing a test system.

More tools and good support options are just some of the highlights of this server package.

When Symantecs Norton Ghost 2002 was released last year, it offered few improvements, with support for Windows XP the only significant addition. Not so with Drive Image 2002.

By sticking with the same intuitive management console, the latest version of Computer Associates' (CA) antivirus software remains notably easy to use, and has increased its coverage by adding new virus-scanning capabilities for PDAs, plug-ins for a variety of gateways, and protection options for Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes/Domino. You also get remote browser access and the option to designate secondary signature servers, which clients will use if the primary distribution server fails.

Released already in the U.S. and due out here shortly, PowerQuest has announced Version 7 of its Drive Image software. Some significant changes have been made with the latest version including plenty of sensible features for offsite data storage and time and space saving.

Released already in the U.S. and due out here shortly, PowerQuest has announced Version 7 of its Drive Image software.

COREL DESIGNER 10

Ever since the arrival of Windows CE on palm-sized devices, we at PC Authority have voiced concerns over its suitability and performance on this platform.

Protect your personal data with these essential downloads that offer spyware protection, data encryption and more

The easyStore is basic, but it’s good value and its iSCSI capabilities give it an edge over the competition

A versatile single-socket rack server with a wide range of processor choices, plus a good warranty for the price.

A versatile single-socket rack server with a wide range of processor choices, plus a good warranty for the price.

It’s business as usual, but this consummate all-rounder continues to grow in power and value.

The arrival of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 (ES2K3) is a significant event in the history of this product. First, it brings to a close the second era of the codebase. Released back in 1996 on the NT 4 wave, ES4 (there was no 1, 2 or 3) brought enterprise-level email, contact management, diary management and so forth to the Windows Server platform in a new and comprehensive BackOffice application.

Currently only available to OEMs, although it should be released later to the consumer market, Seagate’s Momentus hard drive upgrade kit is designed to boost the common bottleneck issue of hard drive performance in notebooks, tablet PCs, digital audio players and blade servers.