The Microsoft Windows operating system has become unwieldy and is choking on the amount of code that needs to be maintained.
- By Kurt Mackie
- April 11, 2008
Nearly a year and a half after striking their improbable alliance to provide better interoperability between open source and Windows-based platforms, Microsoft and Novell told developers this week that the pact has yielded technical benefits but there's still work to be completed, particularly on the interoperability between the two companies' enterprise directory platforms.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- April 04, 2008
When it comes to infrastructure and operations, research firm Gartner says that virtualization will be the most significant trend through the next four years.
- By Becky Nagel
- April 03, 2008
Vmware Inc. has taken the next step in delivering virtualization to the IT masses by bundling a lightweight hypervisor into OEM hardware.
- By Keith Ward
- April 01, 2008
Microsoft's renamed server group -- including the products formerly known as 'Centro' and 'Cougar' -- target SMBs at every level.
- By Lee Pender and RCP Staff
- March 31, 2008
Yahoo hosted the first-ever Apache Hadoop Summit this week in Santa Clara, Calif.
- By John K. Waters
- March 26, 2008
Vertical business networks will play a significant part in the future of software-as-a-service (SaaS) by consolidating multiple SaaS solutions into more convenient packages, said Colleen Smith, VP of SaaS at Progress Software, in an interview this month.
- By Will Kraft
- March 25, 2008
Citrix has become the latest entry into the increasingly-crowded field of embedded hypervisors.
- By Keith Ward
- March 20, 2008
Microsoft, famous for its product delays, has taken a different approach with its latest virtualization offering: instead of multiple delays, it's pushing up delivery deadlines.
- By Keith Ward
- March 19, 2008
VMware has issued patches that will eliminate the vulnerabilities found last month, according to an announcement the company posted on some security news mailing lists today.
- By Joab Jackson
- March 18, 2008
Microsoft today announced its intent to acquire Kidaro, a Redwood City, Calif.-based provider of enterprise desktop virtualization software.
- By Becky Nagel
- March 12, 2008
Court papers suggest that Microsoft's change of heart earlier this year to open up Windows Vista virtualization licensing may have been influenced by litigation.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 11, 2008
Sun, Microsoft are working together to develop a set of guidelines for implementing Exchange Server 2007 on Sun server and storage hardware.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 11, 2008
At last week's VMworld, BEA and VMware announced their partnership on a project to allow BEA's Java applications to work within virtual environments created with VMware's tools.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 06, 2008
A newly released report from Forrester Research makes predictions about enterprise software trends within the forthcoming decade.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 05, 2008
Microsoft and Google both recently added to their in-the-clouds application offerings.
- By Kurt Mackie
- March 04, 2008
According to blogger Nicholas Carr, Microsoft may be preparing to make a major Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) announcement soon, possibly at its Mix '08 conference this week in Las Vegas
- By Becky Nagel
- March 03, 2008
VMware on Thursday announced VMsafe, new security application programming interfaces (APIs) that, according to the company will allow its partners to develop security solutions for virtualized applications "in ways previously not possible in physical environments."
- By Becky Nagel
- March 02, 2008
McAfee has created a new service offering, McAfee Foundstone Professional Services, that aims to secure virtualized environments.
- By Michael Domingo
- March 02, 2008
Redmond officially rolls out Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 in Los Angeles event.
- By Becky Nagel
- February 27, 2008