Companies can avoid attacks and minimize security cost overruns by practicing IT vulnerability management, according to a July study published by the Aberdeen Group.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/19/2008
In what might seem to be a shocking business move, Jas Dillon, former head of business development and M&A at Microsoft, has been named chief strategy officer and general manager of the new TASER Virtual Systems Division.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/19/2008
Microsoft has made substantial changes to its virtualization licensing program, changes that will lower the cost of using virtualization for many customers.
The Microsoft Learning Group has extended its popular "Second-Shot" exam retake program until June 30, 2009.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/18/2008
Microsoft rolled out the highest level of its enterprise support programs to date, adding a new offering called "Microsoft Services Premier Ultimate."
In early August, Bellevue, Wash.-based Nintex rolled out a solution for those concerned with governance in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 environments.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/18/2008
The boards of the ISO and IEC standards bodies today rejected the appeals of four participating members (Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela) that had questioned the process by which Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification was approved as an international standard, called "ISO/IEC 29500."
Upcoming SQL Server 2008 exam for business intelligence experts expected to be available some time in November this year.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/14/2008
Cisco has unveiled a partnership with HP to push its unified communications products to global customers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/14/2008
Intel Corp. on Tuesday shared technical plans for an important element needed to develop the Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0) specification.
Program provides MCP and Dynamics exam takers with one more chance to pass a failed exam.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/14/2008
Microsoft's team developing the Windows 7 operating system has come out with a new blog called "Engineering Windows 7."
The good news for Cisco is that a recent survey of service provider customers has named it one of the top five VoIP vendors in the industry.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/14/2008
Yesterday, August 12, was a blow-out day for some users of VMware's ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 virtualization products, especially if they had applied the latest product updates called "Update 2."
MessageLabs reports that the number of SQL injection attacks spiked sharply last month.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/13/2008
Microsoft closed its investigation into an update blocking issue that affected users of Windows Server Update Service 3.0 or WSUS 3.0 Service Pack 1.
It's hard to "go green" or pursue eco-friendly IT policies when you don't know how much energy you're consuming. Unfortunately for U.S. firms, that's precisely the shape they're in, according to a new survey from reseller giant CDW Corp.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 08/12/2008
Microsoft announced a launch event for its virtualization products, scheduled for Sept. 8, 2008 in Bellevue, Wash.
Microsoft's August patch, slated to be the largest patch rollout since 12 bulletins hit users in February of 2007, came up short by one.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 08/12/2008
With the U.S. economy still circling and unemployment on the rise, it's a good time to be in IT -- relatively speaking.
- By Herb Torrens
- 08/11/2008