VMware this week unveiled the feature set for the next versions of two of its flagship virtualization products in an announcement that coincided with its annual conference being held in Las Vegas.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/18/2005
A little more than a year ago, Intel gave customers and analysts a peek at its roadmap for both the Xeon and Itanium 2 architectures. This month, at an event highlighted by an appearance by legendary comedian Carl Reiner, executives of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel gave a status update that basically has them on track.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/18/2005
Two groups to become more closely aligned; new "blended training" tools also being added.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/18/2005
Computer Associates is shipping release 2 of its Protection Suites for small and medium-sized businesses, and has expanded the offering to include six separate products to address specific market segments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/18/2005
From the business wires this week: a patch management system, a software licensing solution and remote access software for help desk technicians.
California State University selects Softricity’s SoftGrid application virtualization platform to run Chancellor’s Office’s apps.
One other change: MCTs with tenure excused from meeting minimum training delivery requirements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/13/2005
At its iForum conference in Las Vegas this week, Citrix unveiled a major technology initiative that will provide the foundations for “next generation” virtualization products it plans to introduce in the same timeframe as Microsoft’s Windows “Longhorn” server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/13/2005
Citrix Systems is shipping an update to its flagship Presentation Server product that adds support for 64-bit memory addressing technology in Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions, the company told attendees at its iForum conference in Las Vegas this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/13/2005
Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! announced an initiative on Wednesday to make MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger compatible with each other.
Microsoft on Monday unveiled two new financial incentives designed to get U.S. small businesses more deeply invested in Microsoft infrastructure – while helping partners in the process.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/12/2005
MSN is expanding the beta program for the next generation of its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service, known by the code-name "Kahuna."
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/11/2005
Longtime technology rivals RealNetworks and Microsoft on Tuesday settled their antitrust case and created a new partnership in digital music and games in a deal valued at $761 million to RealNetworks.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/11/2005
Three of the Patch Tuesday bulletins are critical.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/11/2005
The first service pack for Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision 4.0 became available to some customers on Monday, marking the start of a tiered release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/10/2005
Microsoft also offers to help small businesses pay Microsoft partners for deployment consulting and services.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/10/2005
Professor Neil Barrett, a computer scientist and specialist in researching Internet crime, will serve as a technical advisor to the European Commission on questions of Microsoft's compliance with the EC's 2004 decision against Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/07/2005
Time Warner Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have restarted discussions about forming an alliance of their Internet units, America Online and MSN, the Wall Street Journal reported in its Friday editions.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/07/2005
Get ready for a huge Microsoft Patch Tuesday next week. The Microsoft Security Response Center is preparing nine security bulletins, according to its Thursday night advance notification e-mail.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/07/2005
The European Commission, which proved with its 497 million Euro fine and behavioral restrictions last year to be a formidable antitrust adversary for Microsoft, is showing interest in the American software giant's security plans.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/07/2005