A public community technology preview (CTP) of Microsoft's Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) software technology is now available, the company announced on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 30, 2011
Dell, Equinix and Rackspace have teamed up to launch an OpenStack demo environment on Wednesday in a bid to get customers to test cloud-based apps on the platform.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 30, 2011
WEB EXCLUSIVE: With so many licensing choices available, IT pros can expect to have at least a few questions if they decide to migrate to Office 365. Consultancy Directions on Microsoft recently shed some light on the ins and outs of Office 365 licensing in an online discussion.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 29, 2011
Cisco Systems announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire newScale Inc., a provider of self-service, self-catalog and lifecycle management software.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 29, 2011
Amazon Web Services launched its EC2 Dedicated Instances service on Monday, in response to indications from its enterprise customers that they do not want to share computing resources with other companies.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 28, 2011
Microsoft issued a warning on Wednesday about nine fraudulent digital certificates issued by root certificate authority company Comodo Group that could potentially be abused by hackers.
- By Chris Paoli
- March 25, 2011
Microsoft released Windows Embedded Device Manager 2011 on Thursday at its Microsoft Management Summit, taking place in Las Vegas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 25, 2011
The beta of Microsoft's System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2012, which Microsoft released earlier this week as part of the unveiling of the System Center 2012 line, includes the company's Server Application Virtualization tool for Windows Azure.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 24, 2011
Microsoft announced the release of Windows Intune on Wednesday during its Microsoft Management Summit, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 23, 2011
On Monday, Microsoft touted its server virtualization offerings as being key to reducing U.S. retailer Target Corp.'s physical server footprint.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 21, 2011
Citing information from Research In Motion senior executives, a Bloomberg article published on Wednesday reports that Microsoft has struck a cloud computing deal with the smartphone developer.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 20, 2011
Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard (formerly code-named "Windows SBS 7") and the SBS 2011 Premium Add-on are now available to Microsoft's volume licensing customers, the company said Thursday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 18, 2011
Beta 2 of Visual Studio LightSwitch, Microsoft's rapid business application development tool, is now available for immediate download.
- By Michael Desmond
- March 16, 2011
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced plans to launch a public cloud service in a speech by CEO Leo Apotheker on Monday at the company's annual analyst meeting.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- March 15, 2011
Microsoft recently discussed its "optimized desktop" concept and "dynamic delivery" strategies, which tap into the company's virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), application virtualization and Remote Desktop Services technologies.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 14, 2011