Microsoft this week released community technology previews of a new Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2008.
Microsoft today announced an update to SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse with other related news, including planned Hadoop support.
IT pros need to constantly update their skills in order to survive. Redmond asked experts -- and readers -- which skills and jobs have a solid future and which ones will crumble in the years to come. Here's what we found.
Microsoft released its Dynamics AX 2012 product today, putting the enterprise resource planning solution up for sale in 25 countries
Microsoft on Monday announced the third community technology preview (CTP3) release of its next-generation SQL Server database management system, code-named "Denali," as well as SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Microsoft is planning some upcoming improvements to System Center Orchestrator 2012, as unveiled today at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles.
These technologies may not have been Microsoft originals, but today they bear the Redmond stamp.
How hard is it to execute UC? Our readers who've done it share their take and offer tips for others trying to bring together voice with Microsoft Exchange, Office, OCS, Lync and more.
Surveyed datacenter managers responded that their budgets will not be increasing for 2011, while a second study points to rising overall IT spending budgets.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/04/2011
Business intelligence has long been the domain of big companies with lots of resources. Microsoft wants to change that, but it faces a daunting task.
- By Paul Korzeniowski
- 04/04/2011
If you're still using tape-based backups, read on.
- By Greg Shields
- 04/04/2011
Integrate data from disparate sources into scorecards with rich data visualization for interactivity and workflow automation.
- By Joshua Hoffman
- 03/01/2011
A panel of defense and civilian agency CIOs discussed the notion that moving applications to a cloud computing provider does not mean giving up control of the data -- as long as agencies get a guarantee in writing.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 02/23/2011
Sentrigo Hedgehog DBscanner offers enterprise-class vulnerability assessment and security scanning for databases.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 02/01/2011
One year after announcing a $250 million, three-year pact to deliver next-generation data center technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft today unveiled five appliances that offer Exchange and SQL Server in turnkey configurations.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 01/19/2011