Last week, market watcher Gartner Inc. issued a report in which it projected that IT spending should eclipse $3.4 trillion this year. That's a year-over-year growth rate of 8 percent.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 26, 2008
The writing's on the wall, it seems, for purveyors of security point solutions. Gone is the day of the best-of-breed anti-virus, firewall, e-mail security or encryption vendors. These days, it's a security suite play.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- August 26, 2008
Check Point Software Technologies today released a new solution to address Internet security woes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 25, 2008
Businesses may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a recent Forrester Research report.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 25, 2008
Citrix Systems has upped the competitive ante by adding a new set of performance-related features to its flagship XenApp product.
- By Tom Valovic
- August 25, 2008
Software as a service (SaaS) for the small to medium-size business (SMB) market has opened potential opportunities for vendors, and a report released last week by Forrester Research offers some advice for gaining entry.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 22, 2008
Microsoft released Windows Small Business Server 2008 to hardware manufacturers, with an eye toward achieving a full product launch in November.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 22, 2008
In a sign that hackers have no problem taking advantage of open source solutions, Linux-based product distributor Red Hat issued a "critical" security advisory on Friday, saying that its servers had been compromised.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 22, 2008
The old jokes are rolling in as Microsoft plans to include comedian Jerry Seinfeld as part of its new $300 million ad campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2008
This year's Democratic National Convention will offer up something new: a series of products from Microsoft designed to make this cornerstone of the political process more accessible.
- By Trudy Walsh
- August 21, 2008
Microsoft on Thursday released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 21, 2008
Microsoft plans to pour an additional money into business and open source technology collaboration with Novell.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 20, 2008
Microsoft really wants SharePoint users to upgrade to SQL Server 2008, which was released to manufacturing on August 6.
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 20, 2008
Microsoft has made substantial changes to its virtualization licensing program, changes that will lower the cost of using virtualization for many customers.
- By Keith Ward
- August 19, 2008
In what might seem to be a shocking business move, Jas Dillon, former head of business development and M&A at Microsoft, has been named chief strategy officer and general manager of the new TASER Virtual Systems Division.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 19, 2008
Companies can avoid attacks and minimize security cost overruns by practicing IT vulnerability management, according to a July study published by the Aberdeen Group.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- August 19, 2008
In early August, Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex rolled out a solution for those concerned with governance in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments.
- By Herb Torrens
- August 18, 2008
Microsoft rolled out the highest level of its enterprise support programs to date, adding a new offering called "Microsoft Services Premier Ultimate."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 18, 2008
The Microsoft Learning Group has extended its popular "Second-Shot" exam retake program until June 30, 2009.
- By Michael Domingo
- August 18, 2008
The boards of the ISO and IEC standards bodies today rejected the appeals of four participating members (Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela) that had questioned the process by which Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification was approved as an international standard, called "ISO/IEC 29500."
- By Kurt Mackie
- August 15, 2008