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
Gartner, the Connecticut-based IT technology research and advisory company, released its newest analysis on worldwide PC sales on Monday.
Microsoft today confirmed that its hardware partner, Hewlett-Packard, will not produce a future product using the upcoming code-named "Vail" version of Windows Home Server (WHS).
Microsoft on Monday announced that its Opalis 6.3 software can now run on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, in addition to Windows Server 2003.
Red Hat today said it has acquired Makara, a provider of software that will help the open source software provider accelerate the build-out its cloud services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/30/2010
Microsoft noted last week that its security team is looking into an elevation-of-privilege exploit affecting Windows-based systems.
Google last week announced Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, a service that will let individuals synchronize and share their documents with Google Docs.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/29/2010
The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a notice that it will hear Microsoft's appeal concerning the i4i patent case.
Novell last week announced it will be sold to Attachmate, a business software company based in Seattle, for $6.10 per share.
Microsoft plans to decrease the pricing of its Service Provider License Agreement offerings for Windows Server 2008 R2, starting next year.