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
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
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
Improvements coming to Web-based data viewing, high availability and query performance.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2010
Release on HP hardware marks integration of technology from DATAllegro acquisition into the flagship Microsoft database technology family.
- By Kurt Mackie
- December 01, 2010
Microsoft published details this month about how it used its own Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 to improve the performance of its company-wide security monitoring system.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 16, 2010
The parallel data warehouse edition of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 solution will soon see the light of day.
- By Kurt Mackie
- November 09, 2010
Microsoft today released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2008.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 29, 2010
Microsoft offers new SQL Server migration tools for MySQL and updated tools for Access, Oracle and Sybase.
- By Kurt Mackie
- September 01, 2010
Microsoft today updated some of its free tools to help users move to Microsoft SQL Server and released a new Oracle MySQL migration tool.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 12, 2010
Microsoft last week released the next version of a free tool that provides upgrade advice for those using the company's flagship software products.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 15, 2010
Microsoft on Monday announced two new "previews" to come for its Windows Small Business Server product suite.
- By Kurt Mackie
- July 14, 2010
Addressing one of the key objectives of cloud computing, Microsoft today said its Windows Azure platform will be available as an appliance that can run on customer and partner premises.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- July 12, 2010
Microsoft is offering a kit designed to streamline the evaluation process for orgs considering its new software products.
- By Herb Torrens
- May 05, 2010
Microsoft released versions of SQL Server 2008 R2 products to IT professionals on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 04, 2010
Microsoft: SQL Server 2008 R2 will be generally available this month.
- By Kurt Mackie
- May 01, 2010
Microsoft today announced that SQL Server 2008 R2 has achieved release-to-manufacturing status and will be released in May worldwide.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 21, 2010