If consumer Voice-over-IP (VoIP) is surging, why are VoIP equipment revenues -- especially in a market segment that includes gargantuan players such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Alcatel-Lucent -- softening?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/27/2008
Redmond responded on Wednesday to an independent security vendor's discovery of a hard-drive encryption vulnerability affecting Microsoft's BitLocker function, Intel/HP's BIOS and several other products and programs.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/27/2008
A variety of technical flaws in an upgrade of the system that supports the government's terrorist watch list has drawn congressional fire and raised concerns that the entire system might be in jeopardy.
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, and the company spilled a lot of pixels explaining the beta's new features.
The open source hypervisor Xen has a new version, 3.3, that includes a number of upgrades and enhancements that make it more enterprise-worthy and start to move it beyond the datacenter.
The writing's on the wall, it seems, for purveyors of security point solutions. Gone is the day of the best-of-breed anti-virus, firewall, e-mail security or encryption vendors. These days, it's a security suite play.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/26/2008
Last week, market watcher Gartner Inc. issued a report in which it projected that IT spending should eclipse $3.4 trillion this year. That's a year-over-year growth rate of 8 percent.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/26/2008
Businesses may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a recent Forrester Research report.
Citrix Systems has upped the competitive ante by adding a new set of performance-related features to its flagship XenApp product.
Check Point Software Technologies today released a new solution to address Internet security woes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/25/2008
Software as a service (SaaS) for the small to medium-size business (SMB) market has opened potential opportunities for vendors, and a report released last week by Forrester Research offers some advice for gaining entry.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/22/2008
Microsoft released Windows Small Business Server 2008 to hardware manufacturers, with an eye toward achieving a full product launch in November.
In a sign that hackers have no problem taking advantage of open source solutions, Linux-based product distributor Red Hat issued a "critical" security advisory on Friday, saying that its servers had been compromised.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/22/2008
This year's Democratic National Convention will offer up something new: a series of products from Microsoft designed to make this cornerstone of the political process more accessible.
Microsoft really wants SharePoint users to upgrade to SQL Server 2008, which was released to manufacturing on August 6.
Microsoft on Thursday released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service (IIS) Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
Microsoft released an improved security filter for its Internet Information Service Web server that is designed to help thwart SQL injection attacks.
The old jokes are rolling in as Microsoft plans to include comedian Jerry Seinfeld as part of its new $300 million ad campaign, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
Microsoft really wants SharePoint users to upgrade to SQL Server 2008, which was released to manufacturing on August 6.
Microsoft plans to pour an additional money into business and open source technology collaboration with Novell.