VMware believes it can save you at least half on your server hardware
through virtualization. It's so confident of the savings that the
company is announcing that it will work for you for free if it can't
meet that goal.
- By Keith Ward
- April 06, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the proposed $7 billion dollar deal for IBM Corp. to acquire Sun Microsystems virtually collapsed this weekend.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 05, 2009
Microsoft on Wednesday announced an addition to its Windows Server product family, unveiling a new server specifically designed for very small businesses.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2009
HP rolled out a service suite this week to help enterprise IT departments adopt and manage cloud-based services.
- By Herb Torrens
- April 02, 2009
Microsoft on Monday announced a new services capability that's part of its Windows Embedded Server product line.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2009
Microsoft and TomTom settled a patent dispute late last month that rang alarm bells among the open source Linux community -- and it still does.
- By Jim Barthold
- April 01, 2009
According to IT staffing specialist Robert Half Technology, a net 2 percent of CIOs anticipate adding IT staff in the coming quarter, compared to a net 8 percent increase in Q1.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 31, 2009
As critics continue to question Microsoft's commitment to working with the open source community, a key Microsoft official last week argued the company has made significant progress while defending its right to enforce patents.
- By John K. Waters
- March 31, 2009
Security researchers say that unprecedented economic uncertainty is translating into unprecedented opportunity for purveyors of spam.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 31, 2009
The Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF) publicly launched its "Open Cloud Manifesto" on Monday, but the document, which advocates open standards and interoperability between cloud platforms, generated few sparks after a spokesperson indicated that the CCIF isn't vouching for it.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 30, 2009
Mozilla rolled out security updates for Firefox after the Web browser was hacked during a contest two weeks ago at a software security convention in Vancouver.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- March 30, 2009
More than a year after its first community technology preview was released, ASP.NET Model View Controller has finally shipped.
- By Michael Desmond
- March 30, 2009
Microsoft has devised a Windows Touch Logo Program for its hardware and software partners that are integrating products with Windows 7.
- By Herb Torrens
- March 27, 2009
A Microsoft official took umbrage on Thursday to an "open standards" initiative proposed by a coalition of cloud computing technology providers.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 26, 2009
Since Microsoft's acquisition of Fast Search & Transfer last year, users have been keen to find out precisely what Microsoft plans to do with the company's search know-how.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- March 25, 2009
The Distributed Management Task Force has released the first finished version of the Open Virtualization Format, a set of metadata tags that can be used to deploy a virtual environment across multiple virtualization platforms.
- By Joab Jackson
- March 25, 2009
Microsoft announced this week that it's partnering with NASA to develop and deploy technology to deliver planetary images and data over the Internet.
- By David Nagel
- March 25, 2009
Sun has released Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3, a major update to the company's virtualization management suite.
- By David Nagel
- March 25, 2009
A Symantec-sponsored survey found that of the 945 U.S. adult participants, 59 percent who left a firm (voluntarily or not) steal company data.
- By James E. Powell
- March 23, 2009
Microsoft won another round in a lawsuit over its "Vista Capable" practices after the federal judge overseeing the case dismissed a key plaintiff contention.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2009