Branch offices present special challenges for IT, mostly because of often slow or unreliable WAN connections, and a lack of onsite IT personnel to secure the local network and computers. Microsoft Corp. and Cupertino, Calif.-based Packeteer believe they have found a solution with iShaper, which is being promoted as a "branch office in a box."
Dell has become the first hardware maker to join Microsoft and Novell in their effort to enhance interoperability between the Windows and Linux platforms.
Formally announces availability of security suite for Microsoft clients
- By Keith Ward and Lee Pender
- 05/02/2007
Vista makes system-to-system IPSec authentication MUCH easier, if you know how to use it.
- By Greg Shields
- 05/01/2007
The fortunes of the Ubuntu version of Linux got a boost on Tuesday as Dell Computer, Inc. announced it will begin selling the open source operating system with selected desktop and laptop models in its consumer lines
Moving to Exchange Server 2007 is a complex process with stringent requirements. Make sure you have the tools and infrastructure in place before you begin.
- By J. Peter Bruzzese
- 05/01/2007
In today's inherently disparate networks, you need a management tool that can take control of all your Windows and open source systems.
Need to keep track of all your network's scheduled tasks? Here's just the tool to do it.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 05/01/2007
New beta called 'quantum leap' by VMM product managers.
The next generation Windows Server took the biggest step yet on its long and winding road toward commercial availability when Microsoft announced the release of "Longhorn" Beta 3 Wednesday night.
Don't look now, but Microsoft Corp. is prepping still another mega-patch, this time for the Windows DNS vulnerability it first disclosed last week.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/20/2007
- By The Associated Press
- 04/17/2007
Several Microsoft virtualization products are seeing their shipping dates slip.
Flashy Forefront message suggests that security is easy to deploy across the enterprise.
ScriptLogic Corp. has updated its Desktop Authority suite with support for Windows Vista and virtual desktops.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/03/2007