While waiting for the special issue dedicated to the Mobile World Congress, here’s another issue of GURU advisor.

During the last few days, two important news saw the light of day in GURU advisor: we’re talking about the two sections dedicated to the word of the day and to the download of the day.
In the former section we’ll present, each day, terms and acronyms (the IT world is full of these!): you can widen your vocabulary by discovering new terms or by improving your knowledge of what you already know.
With the download of the day section, we’ll show with useful software and tools, quite often essentials for an IT technician or professional.

With the February issue, our Virtual Private Server (VPS) series comes to an end. The amount of available information is quite important and spans from the choice of the best offer to performances evaluation and basic troubleshooting in Windows and Linux environments.

Our journey in the ZFS world continues, and this month we’ll talk about one of the most widespread and appreciated system that support it: FreeNAS by iXsystems.
Lots of you love to experiment and toy around, in particular with the VMware platform. Instead of using another whitebox, why don’t use a real server, provided being cheap, quiet and compact? We tried for you the Primergy TX 1310 M1, the tower server entry level proposal by Fujitsu.

Lastly, we’d like to signal the little gem that we’ve covered in the Networking section.

The EdgeRouter X by Ubiquity costs almost as much as a home router but includes features of a business UTM (Unified Threat Management: VPN support (IPsec, OpenVPN, PPTP, L2TP), advanced protocols like OSPF, RIP and BGP and a powerful command line interface that can be easily leveraged by networking folks (because of the derivation by Vyatta).

Have a good read!