Google announced an e-mail continuity service on Thursday to support premises-based Microsoft Exchange.
Microsoft today promised that a hefty December security update will arrive next week.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 12/09/2010
Here's this week's links, either click on them or don't. I don't care.
The Agriculture Department is moving its e-mail, document-sharing, and other collaboration tools to Microsoft's cloud infrastructure to save money and improve efficiency, USDA officials said today.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/09/2010
Microsoft on Tuesday announced an upcoming privacy feature for its Internet Explorer 9 Web browser.
Google made three announcements today concerning its consumer Web efforts.
Billing it as the first database for the cloud, Salesforce.com today is announcing Database.com, targeted at next-generation enterprise apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/07/2010
Microsoft's cloud infrastructure has achieved security certification required to provide federal agencies with cloud-based services.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/06/2010
Cisco has taken two significant steps in space-based communications, with the first-ever upgrade of an IP router aboard a commercial satellite while in orbit, and the first voice over IP call made from a satellite that did not require any ground-based infrastructure to route the call.
- By Dan Rowinski
- 12/06/2010
In this year's "50 Best Careers" list, released Monday, four IT-related jobs made the cut: computer software engineer, computer support specialist, computer systems analyst and network architect.
One of the cables published by WikiLeaks late last month cites U.S. diplomatic concerns over a Chinese software security company with access to Windows source code.
Amazon Web Services today launched the beta of a programmable and purportedly scalable hosted Domain Name System service aimed at letting users of its cloud services create, modify and delete DNS zone files.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/06/2010
Microsoft today announced that the release candidate of Service Pack 1 for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 is now available.
Microsoft questions the use of overseas datacenters in GSA deal.
- By David Hubler
- 12/03/2010
Amazon Web Services said it has not caved to political pressure when deciding to oust WikiLeaks from its cloud service.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 12/03/2010
Silverlight 5 offers improvements targeted at premium media experiences and enterprise apps, according to Microsoft. The public beta is slated for the first half of 2011.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 12/02/2010
Revenue was up 13.2 percent in the third quarter from global server sales, according to the IDC research firm.
Microsoft has issued a guide for setting up a lab testing environment for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1.
NASA has discovered that there is no trace of Arsenic in this week's batch of links.
The General Services Administration is moving e-mail and collaboration tools to the cloud, becoming the first federal agency to move e-mail to a cloud-based system agencywide, GSA officials said yesterday.
- By Rutrell Yasin
- 12/02/2010