VBrick Systems is shipping a video-on-demand network appliance that supports Microsoft Windows Media (WM) video and audio formats in enterprise environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 22, 2005
While the world waits for single-sign on to become a reality, 1-abc.net is shipping version 1.10 of its Password Organizer product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 22, 2005
With exam rollout problems apparently worked out, Microsoft has begun beta testing exams 70-293 and 70-294.
- By Michael Domingo
- September 22, 2005
Today Google launched Google Enterprise Professional, a new partner program designed to help customers maximize the search behemoth's enterprise offerings.
- By Becky Nagel
- September 22, 2005
An MSDN subscription will net you a copy of Virtual Server 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 21, 2005
Microsoft's announcement that it is realigning into three business units and—probably more importantly—appointing Ray Ozzie to help it deliver more software-based services has the partner community wondering what it all might mean to their businesses.
- By Paul Desmond
- September 21, 2005
Dell’s recent decision to exit the Itanium-based server market may appear on the surface to be another blow to Intel’s 64-bit CPU plans, but it falls far short of putting the chip architecture out to pasture, say analysts.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 21, 2005
Add one more acronym to the list of security compliance laws supported by NetIQ’s Security Compliance Suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 21, 2005
Microsoft shuffled the deck of top executives on Tuesday, consolidating its seven divisions into three and naming four presidents to report to CEO Steve Ballmer. One of the new presidents, former senior vice president Jim Allchin, will retire at the end of 2006 when Windows Vista ships.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2005
Microsoft has always tried to nab every sale it can, but it hasn’t always been great about servicing the SMB channels, particularly channels for small businesses. That’s changing, according to senior Microsoft officials, or at the least, the company is renewing its emphasis on those smaller customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 20, 2005
Microsoft this week acquired certificate management and identity assurance software provider, Alacris Inc. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 20, 2005
From the business wires this week: a beta desktop virtualization software, an e-mail storage software suite and a KVM-over-IP device for remote management of servers.
- By Dan Hong
- September 16, 2005
Microsoft is in talks with Time Warner about buying a stake in the media giant's AOL unit, according to reports in the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2005
Microsoft volume licensing customers who sign up for Software Assurance will get Windows "Eiger," Virtual PC Express and Windows Vista Enterprise Edition among other new benefits. Most of the benefits start in March.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2005
- By Scott Bekker
- September 15, 2005
When SQL Server 2005 is released to manufacturing in the next few months, Microsoft will take the exceptional step of designating one of its high-profile features as being intended for evaluation only.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2005
Tuesday’s highly-anticipated ruling by the judge hearing Microsoft’s ongoing lawsuit against Google was a bittersweet irony with both sides declaring victory. The suit itself will grind on until trial early next year, however.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 14, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday posted version 2 of the Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 less than three months after originally releasing the security-focused update. The new version addresses four serious problems with the original Update Rollup but does not fix several issues with prominent third-party software.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 14, 2005
NuView will ship in the next month a new product aimed at providing fast, on-demand file restoration following a failure or for routine maintenance.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 14, 2005
Microsoft has been pushing the idea of partners helping other partners for some time now, as has the IAMCP.
- By Paul Desmond
- September 14, 2005