Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the system that underlies almost all Internet traffic, according to a recent survey of DNS servers.
- By William Jackson
- 11/10/2008
Yahoo's CEO at a tech conference admits to second-guessing the Microsoft offer and offers his assessment of the Google deal gone bad.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/07/2008
Windows Server 2008 R2 got the lion's share of attention on Thursday at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles.
IT pros can expect one of the lightest Patch Tuesdays in recent memory this month as Redmond indicated there would only be two patches -- one critical, one important.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 11/06/2008
Microsoft has introduced a new Windows server component to seamlessly connect Active Directory users to Microsoft-based services and other services residing in the Internet cloud.
- By Jim Barthold
- 11/04/2008
Microsoft's announcement last week that it will offer a new software development platform for cloud computing added new energy to the debate over how and when organizations might begin turning to the technology.
The number of software vulnerabilities in the first half of 2008 dropped 4 percent compared with the previous six months and a respectable 19 percent from the first half of 2007.
- By William Jackson
- 11/03/2008
Service Pack 1 brings high-availability enhancements and added capabilities.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 11/01/2008
The companies' new products could change the virtualization game.
Networking giant Cisco goes after Microsoft's supremacy in the collaboration-software market.
- By Paul Korzeniowski
- 11/01/2008
When it comes to questionable business practices, sometimes the free toys just aren't worth it.
- By Derryl Steib
- 11/01/2008
Software installation might sound like instructions on the back of the shampoo bottle. But it doesn't have to be that way.
- By Greg Shields
- 11/01/2008
Besides carpooling and riding a bicycle to work, using the right software can keep some gas money in your pocket.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 11/01/2008
Want to send an e-mail from the command line? Give Blat a try.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/01/2008
PowerShell cmdlets come well-stocked with common parameters. Let's look at what you can get out of the -OutVariable parameter.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 11/01/2008