Alistair Croll, a principal analyst for consulting coalition BitCurrent, argues that moving to Internet-based Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings, "won't eliminate work [but will] just change the work," for IT administrators.
- By Joab Jackson
- September 18, 2008
The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) appears to be heading toward a reconciliation with Microsoft.
- By David Nagel
- September 17, 2008
It's unclear how a Virginia Supreme Court ruling may influence other state and federal laws, but the court on Friday struck down a Virginia law that prohibits the sending of unsolicited e-mail.
- By Jim Barthold
- September 17, 2008
Microsoft won't say when the first public beta release of its Windows 7 operating system will occur, but some possible dates have been anonymously leaked.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 17, 2008
Microsoft has two new licensing options under its Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop program.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 17, 2008
VMware CTO Stephen Herrod adds texture and detail to CEO Maritz's Tuesday keynote.
- By Keith Ward
- September 17, 2008
Cray Inc., in conjunction with Intel and Microsoft, on Tuesday unveiled a relatively low-cost supercomputer that works in office environments.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 16, 2008
Security firm Sophos disclosed on Monday that BusinessWeek magazine's Web site had been hacked.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 16, 2008
On the first day of VMware's VMworld conference happening in Las Vegas this week, Citrix Systems -- a competitor of VMware that's also at the conference -- announced the release of XenServer 5, the latest version of its server virtualization solution.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 16, 2008
The annual VMworld user conference gets underway today in Las Vegas, with the event's host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products.
- By John K. Waters
- September 15, 2008
Redmond continued to rebuff assertions that a "suggested sites" feature in Internet Explorer 8, currently at Beta 2 release, invades user privacy.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- September 15, 2008
An industry specification for content management interoperability services has been floated by three players in the enterprise content management (ECM) space.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 15, 2008
Intel this week began rolling out its new line of Xeon processors targeted toward server markets.
- By David Nagel
- September 15, 2008
The sluggish global economy has migrated to the IT industry, according to a survey released this week by Forrester Research.
- By Herb Torrens
- September 12, 2008
The newly released Google Chrome Web browser beta is a completely open source solution and a potential challenger to Microsoft's proprietary-code Internet Explorer browser, but Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Scott Hanselman found a little bit of irony in Google's browser as well.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 12, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released late last month, so I gave it a test run.
- By Will Kraft
- September 11, 2008
In an effort to reshape the computing landscape for developing countries, former Microsoft veteran Will Poole will join Redwood City, Calif.-based NComputing as cochairman and board member, the company announced this week
- By Herb Torrens
- September 11, 2008
As part of their interoperability partnership, both companies verified running Novell's SuSE Linux Enterprise Server as a guest OS on Windows and Hyper-V.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 11, 2008
If executive turnover in the online advertising world were a soap opera, it might be called, "The Young and the Restless."
- By Herb Torrens
- September 11, 2008
Sun Microsystems today launched the latest salvo in the virtualization wars with the release of new and upgraded tools and services around its xVM technology.
- By John K. Waters
- September 10, 2008