Two years after winning a contract to provide cloud-based applications to the city of Los Angeles, Google is still fielding concerns over the security of its offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 19, 2011
Lead with pain points, not the Windows Intune brand. Leverage Windows Intune to help SMBs upgrade to Windows 7. Pair Windows Intune sales with Office 365. Look for business incentive fund (BIF) opportunities.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 18, 2011
Microsoft began rolling out the second generation of Windows Intune, called "Wave 2," on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 17, 2011
Perhaps to head off early concerns, Microsoft has posted a series of blogs on its "Building Windows 8" site that describe the reasoning behind the Metro UI.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 14, 2011
IBM this week fleshed out its SmartCloud public and private cloud portfolio and said it is enabling its wide network of partners to deliver its cloud products and services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 14, 2011
Microsoft spent Day 2 of this week's PASS Summit in Seattle outlining some of the new features in the next release of SQL Azure, which the company said will land sometime during Q4 2011.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 13, 2011
Microsoft has officially dropped the "Denali" code name from its next-generation relational database management system, which is now called simply "SQL Server 2012."
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 12, 2011
Microsoft released Service Pack 3 (SP3) for SQL Server 2008 on Thursday, about one year after the release of SP2.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2011
Jared Spataro, a senior director of SharePoint product management at Microsoft, explained the nuances of the keynote in an interview during the Anaheim, Calif. conference.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 10, 2011
Microsoft announced this week that Service Pack 3 for Office 2007 and SharePoint 2007, expected by year's end or sooner, will be "likely final" for both products.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 07, 2011
Apple on Tuesday launched a new iPhone, but it failed to live up to the expectations of those anticipating a major facelift to the popular smartphone.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- October 04, 2011
This week's sold-out SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, Calif. began with a Microsoft keynote touting the collaboration product's rapid growth. Now, a new survey from analyst firm Forrester Research is drilling down into the reasons for its rise.
- By Kurt Mackie
- October 04, 2011
The era of Windows 8, for better or worse, has begun.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 03, 2011
Microsoft opened Day 1 of its SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim, Calif. by talking about the upcoming release of the first major update to SharePoint Online.
- By Gladys Rama
- October 03, 2011
From a basics perspective, you should have documents that outline your value proposition, pricing and why a reseller should join your program, as well as contractual agreements.
- By Keith Lubner
- October 01, 2011