Latest beta aims to ease management tasks tapping Microsoft services.
Here's what analyst firm Gartner says you'll be doing in 2013 and beyond.
A major facelift to the Microsoft collaboration platform puts social networking, cloud, business intelligence and modern apps at the fore.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/04/2012
The Microsoft collaboration platform offers new ways for IT to deliver dashboards and provide extended analytics capabilities.
- By David Drinkwine, Paul Galvin
- 12/03/2012
Virtualizing the Microsoft e-mail platform can yield infrastructure savings, and it's not as risky as some IT pros fear -- if done right.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 11/05/2012
VMware itself uses vMotion and vSphere to ensure availability and optimal performance from its Microsoft messaging system.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/04/2012
Third parties are the lifeblood of the Microsoft market. Redmond honors 21 of the best third-party vendors in our inaugural Third-Party All-Star Awards.
- By Doug Barney, Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/01/2012
From hardware to device management to security to IE 10 oddities, here's an in-depth look at what you should be aware of when Microsoft rolls out Windows 8 later this week.
The cloud is putting pressure on traditional software companies to redefine their focus to a service-oriented business model.
Centralized management and a scoped console simplify administration and troubleshooting duties for running backups.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 10/03/2012
Microsoft's new app model improves performance and broadens choice for end users, while letting IT pros keep control.
While some IT pros look forward to the pending release of Windows 8, many have misgivings about the new UI. Here are the critiques of the reviewers who matter most: Redmond readers.
As VMware plays a greater role in datacenter and cloud infrastructure, partners augment with heterogeneous management and protection tools.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/04/2012
Microsoft highlighted this month why Internet Information Service 8.0 is a "no brainer" upgrade.
The safety of data remains the key reason many enterprises won't use cloud hosting services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/07/2012
Keeping data secure in the cloud requires a new approach to authentication and authorization.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/07/2012
Windows Azure is about to get a facelift. New IaaS capabilities promise VM portability.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/06/2012
Your guide to 6 key considerations -- including security, storage, Exchange hosting and more -- for moving infrastructure and applications to public, private and hybrid clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz, Doug Barney, Bruce Hoard
- 08/06/2012
Tired of hosting e-mail in-house but don't want to use Office 365? Hosting providers offer an alternative.
SharePoint is tailor-made for the cloud, providing location and device independence.