U.S. VARs have a new x86 server vendor option from a major distributor after Tech Data Corp. announced a deal this month to offer Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 30, 2008
Once left for dead, Sybase Inc. has shored up its key tools and mobile businesses, while it remains a factor in a database market dominated by Oracle, IBM and Microsoft.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 30, 2008
Court oversight of Microsoft Corp.'s market power, which began in 2002 after a landmark antitrust settlement, has been extended by 18 months.
- By The Associated Press
- January 30, 2008
Microsoft recently unveiled a new site for developers to download and share Microsoft-related code samples.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 29, 2008
Don't want Office 2003 SP3 rolled out across your desktops next month? Then make sure you don't have Microsoft Update set to automatic.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 29, 2008
Experts believe the rising number of exploits targeting Excel gives hackers incentive to continually exploit applications -- rather than operating systems -- for flaws.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- January 29, 2008
After a more than week-long crash of a server hosting two of its inexpensive Web-based services, Strongspace and BingoDisk, Joyent is taking steps to address customer complaints following the outages -- and taking both applications open source.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 29, 2008
A breach at Baylor University is the latest in a string of more than a dozen data security incidents on United States campuses reported by a variety of sources so far in January 2008.
- By David Nagel
- January 29, 2008
Microsoft announced today through its ISV blog that partners can now begin selling Visual Studio 2008. The program is also now available through retail channels.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 29, 2008
VMware Inc.'s high-flying stock plunged by more than 30 percent Tuesday as investors reacted to a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report that raised worries about the business software maker's ability to cope with tougher competition and a slowing U.S. economy.
- By The Associated Press
- January 29, 2008
With the seemingly exponential growth of Web 2.0 technologies, IT professionals in education -- and all other sectors, for that matter -- face new challenges as control over technology slips away and moves into the hands of users.
- By David Nagel
- January 29, 2008
VMLogix is joining forces with the Fort Lauderdale, Fla-based company to make its virtual lab automation solutions available on Citrix's newly acquired XenServer.
- By John K. Waters
- January 29, 2008
Hoping to snap out of a financial malaise, Yahoo is preparing to lay off as many as 1,000 workers in the Sunnyvale-based company's biggest purge since it was scrambling to survive the dot-com bust seven years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- January 29, 2008
Virtualization pioneer VMware has released the public beta of its new deployment management product, VMware Stage Manager. The application is based on the company's flagship virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure 3.
- By John K. Waters
- January 25, 2008
Despite public confidence that SQL Server 2008 would ship by the end of June, Microsoft today indicated it probably is more likely to arrive toward the end of the year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 25, 2008
While Microsoft's record revenues of $16.4 billion and earnings of $4.7 billion for the second quarter put the spotlight on strong sales of Vista and Office, Redmond's latest financial report also showed steady growth in its server and tools business.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- January 25, 2008
Adobe has released two new full version upgrades in its Flash Media Server line: Flash Media Streaming Server 3 and Flash Media Interactive Server 3.
- By David Nagel
- January 25, 2008
Charter Communications officials believe a software error during routine maintenance caused the company to delete the contents of 14,000 customer e-mail accounts.
- By The Associated Press
- January 24, 2008
Cecilia Cole, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) program manager, announced today on Microsoft's WSUS team blog that the service will force-push out Internet Explorer 7 to organizations with WSUS set to auto-approve updates.
- By Becky Nagel
- January 24, 2008
IT security firm Sophos this week let the cat out of the bag, spilled the beans, and otherwise debunked the widely treasured myth that Macs are invulnerable to malware in its Security Threat Report 2008; released Tuesday.
- By David Nagel
- January 24, 2008