From the business wires this week: learning resources for Comptia A+ and Microsoft SQL Server 2005, an IM firewall and a network traffic monitoring tool.
IBIS and Inacom team up to offer Microsoft training in Atlanta.
Next year, Software Assurance will include a sizable increase in training vouchers. The increase can prove to be a boon to Microsoft Certified Training Partners.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/22/2005
While the world waits for single-sign on to become a reality, 1-abc.net is shipping version 1.10 of its Password Organizer product.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/22/2005
VBrick Systems is shipping a video-on-demand network appliance that supports Microsoft Windows Media (WM) video and audio formats in enterprise environments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/22/2005
With exam rollout problems apparently worked out, Microsoft has begun beta testing exams 70-293 and 70-294.
- By Michael Domingo
- 09/22/2005
Strong demand in international markets, and especially for notebooks, will likely drive worldwide sales of new PCs this year to well over 200 million units, research firm IDC said this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/22/2005
Today Google launched Google Enterprise Professional, a new partner program designed to help customers maximize the search behemoth's enterprise offerings.
Dell’s recent decision to exit the Itanium-based server market may appear on the surface to be another blow to Intel’s 64-bit CPU plans, but it falls far short of putting the chip architecture out to pasture, say analysts.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/21/2005
An MSDN subscription will net you a copy of Virtual Server 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/21/2005
Add one more acronym to the list of security compliance laws supported by NetIQ’s Security Compliance Suite.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/21/2005
Microsoft's announcement that it is realigning into three business units and—probably more importantly—appointing Ray Ozzie to help it deliver more software-based services has the partner community wondering what it all might mean to their businesses.
- By Paul Desmond
- 09/21/2005
Microsoft shuffled the deck of top executives on Tuesday, consolidating its seven divisions into three and naming four presidents to report to CEO Steve Ballmer. One of the new presidents, former senior vice president Jim Allchin, will retire at the end of 2006 when Windows Vista ships.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/20/2005
Microsoft has always tried to nab every sale it can, but it hasn’t always been great about servicing the SMB channels, particularly channels for small businesses. That’s changing, according to senior Microsoft officials, or at the least, the company is renewing its emphasis on those smaller customers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 09/20/2005
Microsoft this week acquired certificate management and identity assurance software provider, Alacris Inc. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/20/2005
From the business wires this week: a beta desktop virtualization software, an e-mail storage software suite and a KVM-over-IP device for remote management of servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/15/2005
Microsoft is in talks with Time Warner about buying a stake in the media giant's AOL unit, according to reports in the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/15/2005
Microsoft volume licensing customers who sign up for Software Assurance will get Windows "Eiger," Virtual PC Express and Windows Vista Enterprise Edition among other new benefits. Most of the benefits start in March.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/15/2005
Microsoft's on-again, off-again Windows Sidebar feature, a prominent new interface element that could make it into the Windows Vista desktop, is definitely on again.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/14/2005