Cisco Systems on Tuesday launched a key component of its Self Defending Network initiative when it delivered the first of its Adaptive Server Appliance 5500 Series family of multi-function network security appliances.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/03/2005
Beefed-up four-ways and "Truland" take center stage.
- By Scott Bekker and Stuart J. Johnston
- 05/01/2005
A look at Microsoft's current collaboration technologies and how Groove Networks' Vritual Office fits in.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/01/2005
Latest attempt to bring data mining to the masses with SQL Server 2005 hinges on new features, ease-of-use and low cost.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/01/2005
From the business wires this week: hosted solutions for Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and SharePoint, a one-touch backup and recovery external hard drive, and a 2.5TB NDAS storage unit.
ScriptLogic is shipping version 6.5 of its Desktop Authority PC administration package. The upgrade makes improvements in file and registry security operations, Windows firewall control and inactivity timers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/27/2005
Sun Microsystems plans to ship versions of its Sun Fire V40z server in May that will be available with up to four of AMD’s new dual-core, 64-bit Opteron processors.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/27/2005
The Computing Technology Industry Association has an inventory of discount vouchers for A+ exams that are on the verge of expiring.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/27/2005
SEATTLE -- Microsoft held a session at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference Wednesday on "Internet Explorer today and tomorrow," although the working title could have as easily been "Internet Explorer eight months ago."
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/27/2005
SEATTLE -- Attendees to Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference this week were treated to a kit of DVDs, including one eagerly awaited item -- another pre-beta version of the Windows Longhorn operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/26/2005
SEATTLE -- Windows XP Media Center Edition sales topped 1 million in the six months since the launch of the most recent edition, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/26/2005
A new service pack out for SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services adds several end-user features, as well as standard bug fixes, to the free add-on for the SQL Server database.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/26/2005
SEATTLE -- Dell and HP took advantage of this week’s delivery of Microsoft’s Windows x64 editions to announce that they will soon begin shipping computers that run the 64-bit operating systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/26/2005
Chris Liddell, the chief financial officer at International Paper, will assume the same job at Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/26/2005
SEATTLE -- Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates on Monday launched the x64 editions of Windows and gave a public preview of the much-anticipated Windows "Longhorn" user interface at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC).
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/25/2005
Microsoft plans to post a public beta of Windows Server 2003 "R2" this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 04/25/2005
AMD began delivering its first dual-core Opteron 64-bit CPUs in quantity this week, and HP announced its first servers based on the technology.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/22/2005
From the business wires this week: Group Policy solutions for managing desktop policies and software deployments; security tools for IE, e-mail and TCP/IP; and mobile tokens.
Borland is shipping a major release of its modeling suite for Visual Studio. Among key new features, Together 2005 for Visual Studio.Net adds support for Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.0 and introduces a role-based work model.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 04/21/2005
Subscribe to TechNet Plus and Microsoft will throw in four free e-learning courses.
- By Michael Domingo
- 04/21/2005