Network Management


Microsoft Eyes SMB Market in Partner Survey

A Microsoft-sponsored report found that SMBs could represent an opportunity for future sales of IT software and services, despite the current economic downturn.

Sun Releases Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3

Sun has released Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3, a major update to the company's virtualization management suite.

Virtualization Standard Released

The Distributed Management Task Force has released the first finished version of the Open Virtualization Format, a set of metadata tags that can be used to deploy a virtual environment across multiple virtualization platforms.

Gartner Outlines Windows 7 Deployment Strategy

IT departments should depart from the usual SP1 milestone when deciding when to deploy Windows 7, according to a Gartner analysis.

Enterprises Hanging on to Legacy Microsoft Apps

Forrester Research found that enterprises predominantly use Windows and Internet Explorer, but they're currently sticking with the older Microsoft technologies.

Crash! Boom! Bang! Exploit!

The Windows Debugger plug-in explains all. Plus: IE 8 and Safari get taken down a notch; Conficker might be an April Fool's joke; Paladin rolls to the rescue.

Microsoft Broadens IE 8 Bug Hunt

Microsoft continues to squash bugs in its new Internet Explorer 8 Web browser, which was released last week for Windows-based PCs.

IE 8 Goes Live

On Thursday, Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8.

IE Market Share Has 'Stabilized,' Study Finds

A study polling the use of Web browsers and operating systems affirmed Microsoft's dominant market position on both fronts.

Cisco Enters Server Market

Cisco Systems Inc., the IT industry’s leading supplier of routers and other networking hardware, is expanding its hardware offerings to include blade servers as part of a comprehensive push into the white-hot world of virtualization.

Understanding DNS

Configuring DNS is no easy task. Emmett's here to walk you through it, from setting up the resolver to understanding how zone files and resource records work.

System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Beta Now Available

Microsoft released the latest beta version of its virtualized server management system, especially notable for its support of "live migration."

Fool Us Once, Conficker....

Plus, Microsoft in a patching spat; PCI makes new rules; Facebook tricks.

Windows 7 Getting Fine Tuned, Features Added

More user interface tweaks and bug fixes are being carried out by the Windows 7 engineering team in preparation for the release candidate version of the OS.

Microsoft's DNS Patch Flawed, Security Official Says

nCircle's Tyler Reguly discovered a vulnerability that renders the Microsoft's DNS patch virtually useless if a server has already been compromised.

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