While the IT security community waited anxiously to see what havoc the Conficker worm might bring to infected systems on April 1, another worm slithered into the picture and now has Microsoft's full attention.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 08, 2009
With a shrinking server market, financial services firms are porting more applications to Linux at the expense of Unix and other legacy platforms. While that has been an ongoing trend for many years, the motive has shifted in the past year from adding new functionality to reducing cost.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 08, 2009
Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution.
- By David Nagel
- April 08, 2009
Windows 7 beta testers will experience some pain when moving to the release candidate version of the operating system when it comes out, Microsoft officials explained on Tuesday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 07, 2009
Microsoft will permit Windows 7 Professional edition downgrades to Windows XP Professional, according a report by veteran Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley published on Monday.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2009
Phase 2 International now offers online IBM Lotus applications to SMBs, adding to its various hosted service offerings which already include a Microsoft solution stack.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 06, 2009
Zend Technologies will release its commercial-grade server for PHP applications on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- April 06, 2009
VMware believes it can save you at least half on your server hardware
through virtualization. It's so confident of the savings that the
company is announcing that it will work for you for free if it can't
meet that goal.
- By Keith Ward
- April 06, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the proposed $7 billion dollar deal for IBM Corp. to acquire Sun Microsystems virtually collapsed this weekend.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 05, 2009
A new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability has come to Redmond's attention, this time affecting Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- April 03, 2009
HP rolled out a service suite this week to help enterprise IT departments adopt and manage cloud-based services.
- By Herb Torrens
- April 02, 2009
Microsoft on Wednesday announced an addition to its Windows Server product family, unveiling a new server specifically designed for very small businesses.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 02, 2009
Microsoft on Monday announced a new services capability that's part of its Windows Embedded Server product line.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 01, 2009
A roundup of green alternatives in the virtualization space.
- By Keith Ward
- April 01, 2009
Conficker is scheduled to update itself April 1. But analysts say the appears to be an upgrade of its defenses rather than a planned attack.
- By William Jackson
- April 01, 2009