Microsoft has officially dropped the "Denali" code name from its next-generation relational database management system, which is now called simply "SQL Server 2012."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 12, 2011
Microsoft released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for SQL Server 2008 on Thursday, about one year after the release of SP2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2011
At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner singled out and attacked six strategic rivals. Does Microsoft have what it takes to compete and win against Apple, Google, Cisco, Oracle, Salesforce.com and VMware?
- By Scott Bekker
- September 07, 2011
Microsoft on Monday released community technology previews (CTPs) of a new Service Pack 3 (SP3) being developed for various versions of SQL Server 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 23, 2011
Microsoft has added cloud assessment capabilities, including the ability to assess if a computing environment is ready to migrate to Office 365, to the free Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 (MAP 6.0), which became generally available on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 19, 2011
Microsoft also released the first service pack (SP1) of the current SQL Server 2008 R2, though its announcement took a back seat to all of the WPC news this week.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 13, 2011
Upcoming improvements to Microsoft's System Center Orchestrator 2012 were announced at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 12, 2011
Microsoft ISVs Strategy Companion and SwiftKnowledge are intent on filling in the gaps in Microsoft's BI offerings, which, the two companies say, are functional enough but appeal to only a subset of potential Microsoft BI consumers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- July 11, 2011
Enterhost, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Fort Worth, Texas, recently rolled out four new cloud services based around Microsoft's cloud platform.
- By Gladys Rama
- June 24, 2011
Security is not a top priority for cloud computing vendors and customers, according to a recent CA Technologies-sponsored survey by the Ponemon Institute.
- By Kathleen Hickey
- May 06, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Which components of Microsoft's 350-strong product portfolio are the most important to its partners' businesses? To find the answer, we asked the partners themselves -- over 500 of them -- to pick the 10 they and their customers can't go without.
- By Scott Bekker
- April 26, 2011
The two companies deliver on their $250 million, three-year pact to jointly develop integrated datacenter solutions.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 01, 2011
Microsoft announced a new set of reference architectures designed for partners building Fast Track data warehouse products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- February 15, 2011
One year after announcing a $250 million, three-year pact to deliver next-generation data center technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft today unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 19, 2011
Improvements coming to Web-based data viewing, high availability and query performance.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2010