Attendees at SMB Nation Fall 2010 see peril and opportunity in the rise of cloud computing.
                    
			            - By Rich  Freeman
- 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 has shipped 240 million copies of Windows 7, and businesses are heavily engaged in migrations.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- December 01, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Monday announced that its Opalis 6.3 software can now run on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, in addition to Windows Server 2003.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 30, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Red Hat today said it has acquired Makara, a provider of software that will help the open source software provider accelerate the build-out its cloud services.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 30, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google last week announced Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, a service that will let individuals synchronize and share their documents with Google Docs.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 29, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Novell last week announced it will be sold to Attachmate, a business software company based in Seattle, for $6.10 per share. 
                    
			            - By Chris  Paoli
- November 29, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft plans to decrease the pricing of its Service Provider License Agreement offerings for Windows Server 2008 R2, starting next year.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 19, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Leading IT distributor Ingram Micro last week launched a cloud offensive aimed at bridging the partner community with various vendors' cloud offerings. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 19, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 18, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google said today it is bringing its various cloud productivity apps offering under the Google Apps branding infrastructure. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 18, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Wednesday announced the new release of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 2.0 solution to remedy a software interoperability problem.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 18, 2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Looking to underscore the emphasis Microsoft is placing on its new Lync 2010 unified communications platform, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates made a surprise cameo at today's launch event.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- November 17, 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
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Monday announced that it had rolled out two "new" security baselines for use with its Security Compliance Management tool, plus new setting packs for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8.
                    
			            - By Kurt  Mackie
- November 16, 2010