EMC and Microsoft formally renewed a partnership on Tuesday, extending their collaborative efforts on virtualization, content management and security solutions for the enterprise market through 2011.
For the second time in as many weeks, after a breach at Heartland Payment Systems, a company storing a large volume of personal data has been hit by a major theft.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 01/27/2009
Microsoft is initiating the fourth in a series of datacenter upgrades to enable its cloud computing services, according to a Microsoft blog post on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 12/02/2008
With the upcoming Virtual Datacenter Operating System, new VMware CEO Paul Maritz wants to virtualize every bit and byte of your data center.
Coming up with a good data recovery plan is no easy feat. That's where Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager comes in.
- By Joern Wettern
- 12/01/2008
To recognize the dynasties in our annual Readers' Choice competition, <i>Redmond</i> is introducing the "Triple Crown," a new award for products that have won (at least) three Readers' Choice honors in a row.
A completely revamped data center, virtualized servers and networks...it's all part of the VDC-OS plan.
A startup company called MagCloud.com is currently using Windows Azure, the new Microsoft "cloud operating system" supporting software as a service applications and storage.
Is "cloud computing" the next big thing in IT, or are you just a victim of "cloud wash"?
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/02/2008
Microsoft, following its earlier announcement about new virtualization products and imminent releases, has filled in some details that give more shape to its vision.
Microsoft kicked off its virtualization push with a number of product announcements, including a key virtual management tool.
Redmond responded on Wednesday to an independent security vendor's discovery of a hard-drive encryption vulnerability affecting Microsoft's BitLocker function, Intel/HP's BIOS and several other products and programs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/27/2008
Microsoft really wants SharePoint users to upgrade to SQL Server 2008, which was released to manufacturing on August 6.
Microsoft announced a launch event for its virtualization products, scheduled for Sept. 8, 2008 in Bellevue, Wash.
Update adds product support plus a fix for an infamous bug that has plagued Microsoft's consumer server offering since December.
Statistically speaking, most data on enterprise networks rarely gets accessed after it is written to network storage, according to researchers from NetApp Inc. and the University of California (UC). Evidently, we are too busy writing new data to go back over old data.
- By Joab Jackson
- 07/02/2008
Better make sure...especially when you're working with credit card information.
- By Byron Sisson
- 07/01/2008
Of all the times to have a backup crisis, it had to be the eve of Y2K.
- By Derryl Steib
- 07/01/2008
Microsoft on Tuesday issued a new security advisory after the discovery of "a recent escalation in a class of attacks" targeting Web sites.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/24/2008
Verizon Business reports that more than half of the data breaches on enterprise systems go undetected and are caused by general negligence and lax security.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 06/13/2008