With the launch of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 coming in November, the Redmond software giant has formalized the implementation guidance and marketing support it will provide to its partners and customers.
- By Michael Domingo
- September 28, 2005
With renewed interest in attracting small business customers, IBM has begun to ship the first machines in a new line of single-processor, x86-based, low-cost servers targeted specifically to provide “enterprise class” technology to small-scale businesses.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 27, 2005
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, a new disk-based backup and recovery server for Windows file servers, became generally available on Tuesday. Several partners are rolling out hardware and software based on DPM to coincide with the launch.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 27, 2005
Microsoft on Tuesday released a beta of Windows Storage Server 2003 R2, which will include enhancements for storage management, collaboration and branch usage.
- By Scott Bekker
- September 27, 2005
IBIS and Inacom team up to offer Microsoft training in Atlanta.
- By Dan Hong
- September 23, 2005
From the business wires this week: learning resources for Comptia A+ and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, an IM firewall and a network traffic monitoring tool.
- By Dan Hong
- September 23, 2005
Next year, Software Assurance will include a sizable increase in training vouchers. The increase can prove to be a boon to Microsoft Certified Training Partners.
- By Michael Domingo
- September 22, 2005
Strong demand in international markets, and especially for notebooks, will likely drive worldwide sales of new PCs this year to well over 200 million units, research firm IDC said this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- September 22, 2005
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