Microsoft released a public beta of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 on Tuesday.
With support for Hyper-V in Service Pack 1, Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager can be the ideal application for backing up virtual machines.
Cloud computing promises cost savings, increased flexibility and improved remote access to resources, but these advantages come at a cost.
- By William Jackson
- 08/03/2009
Microsoft, Check Point and McAfee provide three whole-disk encryption options; we examine each and choose the best of the bunch.
- By Tony Bradley
- 08/01/2009
A group of leading standards development organizations are working jointly to foster common standards for cloud computing and storage.
Tips to keep your data clean, green and organized.
Following these seven tips can help you prepare for a disaster -- or prevent one from becoming even worse.
- By Jon William Toigo
- 07/01/2009
A Symantec survey reveals the "rising [disaster recovery] pressures on organizations caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service-level requirements to mitigate risk to the business."
Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other parties.
- By Joab Jackson
- 05/12/2009
Independent software vendors have long been the life of Microsoft's party by producing products that fill in the gaps Redmond leaves open. For Tech•Ed North America 2009, we celebrate third-party vendors and preview what they'll be announcing and demonstrating at the show.
PlateSpin Forge offers peace of mind at a reasonable price.
- By Rick Vanover
- 05/01/2009
Virtualization leader VMware sees a cloudy future for the datacenter. To that end, today the company announced vSphere 4, the next generation of what was formerly called VMware Infrastructure.
PlateSpin Forge offers peace of mind at a reasonable price.
- By Rick Vanover
- 04/19/2009
On April 21, VMware will take the wraps off of vSphere, the next generation of its infrastructure suite currently known as VMware Infrastructure.
Microsoft and TomTom settled a patent dispute late last month that rang alarm bells among the open source Linux community -- and it still does.
- By Jim Barthold
- 04/01/2009
Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Citrix and Microsoft, already close collaborators on many
virtualization-based initiatives, ratcheted up their relationship Monday with
the announcement of Citrix Essentials, a group of technologies calculated to
shoehorn their way into the enterprise datacenters now dominated by VMware.
Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
A weakened economy will serve as a catalyst to push enterprises from on-premise computing to accessing services over the Internet cloud, according to Microsoft exec Doug Hauser, who delivered an address on Wednesday at the Thomas Weisel 2009 Technology and Telecom Conference.
- By Jim Barthold
- 02/11/2009
EMC and Microsoft formally renewed a partnership on Tuesday, extending their collaborative efforts on virtualization, content management and security solutions for the enterprise market through 2011.