09/01/2010
Boxing Up The Cloud
With the Windows Azure Platform Appliance, Microsoft, Dell, HP and Fujitsu aim to define a new category for datacenter computing.
By Jeffrey Schwartz
Partners like Jeffrey Goldstein are eager for features in Microsoft's forthcoming release that will give them better traction against Salesforce.com.
By Jeffrey Schwartz
The Windows Azure Platform Appliance is coming this fall. While you can't buy one of these limited-production releases, it could portend the future of private clouds.
By Scott Bekker
Some MSPs are intrigued by the new Microsoft cloud-based Windows Intune, but the product's early positioning and the company's commitment to the managed services model are questioned.
By Scott Bekker
Program expands to rely on a broader base of banks worldwide.
With fingers crossed, IDC calls for 6 percent bump in IT spending for all of 2010.
By Scott Bekker
CFO Peter Klein makes the case for Microsoft's financial upside in cloud computing at the Microsoft Financial Analyst meeting.
By Scott Bekker
As the economy continues to bump along, throwing off signals both that it might be headed up or down, a major component of the channel is reflecting the same confusing lack of clear trends.
By Scott Bekker
Every now and again, something truly shocking happens in the IT industry. Like what went down at HP just recently.
By Kurt Mackie
Proposal excludes wireless bandwidth and calls for weak FCC regulation. Critics allege the approach would create "private fast lanes" for "big players" and a "winding dirt road" for "the little guy."
By Kurt Mackie
Microsoft offers new SQL Server migration tools for MySQL and updated tools for Access, Oracle and Sybase.