For VmWare virtual machine backups, Veeam offers a free, yet fully functional version (no limit on the number of hosts or virtual machines, or expiration date) of its powerful product for cloning, copying, exporting, and administering Virtual machines, even in stand-alone environments (ESXi, Hyper-V).

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For project management, there are many computer tools, some of which are free, such as GanttProject, TaskJuggler or RedMine.

This article presents RedMine.

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