- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2002
NEW ORLEANS -- Aelita Corp. this week released a new version of its administration tool for Windows 2000 Active Directory and Exchange.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2002
NEW ORLEANS -- Beta versions of a SQL Server-based notification service and a new Windows CE edition of the database made their first public appearances at Microsoft TechEd 2002 on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2002
NEW ORLEANS -- NEC Solutions Inc., which sells fault-tolerant Intel-based servers built on technology licensed from Stratus Technologies, introduced its second generation of systems this week at Microsoft TechEd.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2002
Microsoft's ongoing efforts to improve the security of its products got a boost this week when Redmond made its promised Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) available for free download.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- April 10, 2002
NEW ORLEANS -- Developers at Microsoft's 10th annual TechEd conference received a toolkit to help them turn the features and data in Exchange Server into XML Web services.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 10, 2002
A group of vendors, including Microsoft, working on making data analysis tools available as Web services expanded their work to include data mining.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 09, 2002
NetIQ, the company that licensed to Microsoft the base technology for its Microsoft Operations Manager, on Tuesday announced a suite of software that builds security functionality into the management toolset.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 09, 2002
Microsoft has been trying to prove it deserves a place in the enterprise data center for years. These days, Microsoft has solid technology, programs and partnerships that earn Microsoft at least a foot in the door in the glass house. From its Windows Datacenter Server operating system and Windows Datacenter Program, to scalability improvements in SQL Server, to partnerships with fault-tolerant hardware vendors, to 64-bit systems, the Windows approach is gaining credibility. But the word Microsoft still raises the hackles on many a data-center manager's neck. In this series of stories we'll look at
whether Microsoft is ready for this space.
In announcing a new utility-style offering for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Compaq Global Services gave some hard evidence for how much Exchange 2000 is penetrating the Exchange user base.
Compaq's figures show that about 12 percent of the Exchange seats it has deployed or has under contract are on Exchange 2000 as opposed to Exchange 5.5 and earlier versions of the e-mail server.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 04, 2002
Dell started talking the talk of bricks, blades and InfiniBand.
The computer giant made a series of announcements at an enterprise-focused event in New York City on Wednesday that included plans for a 3U blade chassis that holds up to six, two-processor servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 04, 2002
Microsoft's IIS Web server gained almost 2 million sites in March, taking market share from the open-source Apache and the iPlanet Web servers, according to Netcraft.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 04, 2002
Microsoft will combine its two Unix interoperability tools, Services for Unix and Microsoft Interix, into a single offering called Services for Unix 3.0 in the second quarter of this year, Microsoft officials say.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- April 03, 2002
The stumbles continued into Wednesday for the Unisys-Microsoft joint anti-Unix marketing campaign as the Web site for the program became unreachable.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 03, 2002
<i>Case study.</i> When the City of Minneapolis, Minn. government decided to use the Internet to automate its business processes, it was obvious the information infrastructure would need updating, too. The city's Microsoft-based solution includes Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
Dell Computer Corp. reclaimed the price-performance lead on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark for OLTP systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 02, 2002
A joint marketing campaign from Unisys Corp. and Microsoft Corp. to promote Windows on 32-processor Unisys ES7000 servers got off to a rocky start when its anti-Unix homepage was hosted on a Unix/Apache server.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 02, 2002
On its way to delivering 3-GHz Pentium 4 processors by year's end, Intel shipped a 2.4-GHz version of the processor.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 02, 2002
Become the network master of all your domains. This ultimate guide spells out new, smart ways to upgrade systems, set up services, monitor traffic, install applications and more—better, faster, cheaper.
- By MCPmag.com Experts
- April 01, 2002
Pass/Fail causes a storm; XML; Exchange and Active Directory; salary survey unrealistic?
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- April 01, 2002