From the business wires this week: an application control manager for Windows servers, backup and recovery software and an authentication appliance.
Borland Software announced Wednesday that it is getting out of the integrated development environment (IDE) business and plans to sell off its legendary programming tools.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/09/2006
Microsoft’s recent moves to release portions of its Windows server source code to competitors has struck a chord with the U.S. Department of Justice and the states who participated in its landmark antitrust trial.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/09/2006
Microsoft is shipping the first beta of Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2006, as well as early select customer betas of its Microsoft Client Protection and Microsoft Antigen for Exchange products.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/09/2006
Symantec says it will ship next month an update to its BindView Policy Manager, the first major update since it acquired BindView earlier this year.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2006
Microsoft to beta test four upgrade exams beginning next week for MCAD and MCSD holders who want quick route to new-gen MCP certs.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/08/2006
Users of Universe Software’s pdf-Formserver package can now save .PDF forms together with user data.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2006
SWsoft is shipping a minor update to its Virtuozzo server virtualization product for Windows that adds a graphical "physical-to-virtual" migration tool to help administrators automate the process of moving from a dedicated physical server to a virtual server environment.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/08/2006
In a move the company says aims to improve how it responds to users' needs, Microsoft announced a recent restructuring of its Customer Service organization that merges it with the venerable Product Support Services unit.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/07/2006
EMC's VMware unit has released a beta of its new VMware Server, a free, entry-level hosted virtualization environment for Windows and Linux servers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/07/2006
Storage vendor EMC Corp. said Monday it has begun shipping the first components of a new line of its storage products scoped for small and medium-sized business use, and will soon ship others.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/07/2006
Scriptlogic Corp. yesterday announced File System Auditor, a tool that lets corporations see exactly who has done what with company files.
Softricity releases SoftGrid virtualization platform for SMS 2003.
From the business wires this week: a .NET-based identity management system, a solution for completely erasing data, an e-mail archival app and a device for recording mouse movements.
Zenprise Inc. is shipping a version of its Microsoft Exchange e-mail management package designed for customers with 1,000 or fewer workers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/02/2006
Backup and restore software vendor UltraBac is shipping version 3 of its UBDR Gold package, adding the ability to restore files to a machine that is not physically identical to the one the backup was performed on.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/02/2006
Zero-day exploits are forcing Microsoft to be more flexible in its game plan.
- By Michael Desmond
- 02/01/2006
The long-awaited "Release 2" of Windows Server 2003 is finally out, albeit a couple of months later than originally planned. In addition, Microsoft is also shipping an update to its Internet Security and Acceleration Server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2006
New-generation MCP certifications step out of the shadows with general release of three new MCP exams for SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/01/2006
Microsoft announced this week that it is merging its Exchange Server group with its Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) group, as it begins to think of the two technologies comprising a "platform."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/01/2006