The folks at Symantec are all about deduplication these days; they even have a sort of manifesto-type thing about it.
This week, Symantec revealed that it will release in February NetBackup 7, which will bring all sorts of capabilities to big companies, including deduplication. It'll also roll out Backup Exec 2010, which will bring deduplication down to midsize businesses. Partners, take note.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/25/20100 comments
Tell us, Bill, is it all going to be OK? Bill Gates isn't so sure about this economic recovery we're supposed to be having. He says it'll take "years of digging out" before the economy really becomes stable again. And he says taxes will probably have to go up in order to balance the federal budget here in the U.S. Ouch. Bill, we're not saying you're wrong (RCPU, too, fears that a true recovery will take a very long time -- if it happens), but we liked you better when you were hocking new versions of Microsoft products at Comdex.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/25/20104 comments
The former Microsoft employee has given in to the wicked 140-word (or fewer) temptations of the vile social networking site (where, of course, you can follow RCPU at twitter.com/leepender). Apparently, he's got some odd following preferences and some annoying new online friends.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/21/20101 comments
Well, this just doesn't seem like friendly competition at all. After IBM announced last week that Panasonic was ditching Exchange for the hosted LotusLive e-mail offering, Microsoft started grousing about the deal.
An Exchange product manager at Microsoft claimed that fewer than 4 percent of Panasonic employees had been using Exchange before the IBM deal, anyway, and that Lotus was still getting clobbered in the collaboration market. IBM responded with something along the lines of "nuh-uh," saying that more than 4 percent of Panasonic workers had been using Exchange...and the back and forth just kind of went on from there.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/21/20100 comments
This article is interesting enough, as Microsoft wants Congress to protect cloud data and is advocating policies in that direction. But what we really like is the photo on this page and the second comment underneath the article. Pretty good stuff.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/21/20100 comments
The title of this entry would have rhymed had it not been for that pesky "R2" at the end. But that's kind of the important bit, isn't it? Anyway, Microsoft says that the latest version of SQL Server will be available in May, just in time for partners to start selling it before Microsoft's fiscal year ends at the end of June.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/20/20101 comments
After settling the long-running IE antitrust mess by compromising on a browser menu, Microsoft and European officials are going at it tooth and nail again. And, as usual, the Eurocrats are the party on the attack.
This time, though, it's just bizarre. And the Euros have way overstepped their bounds. In light of revelations that hackers used a security flaw in IE to attack Google and other firms, the French and German governments -- get this -- officially recommended that users move away from IE and employ some other browser.
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Posted by Lee Pender on 01/20/20105 comments
Just when you thought Lotus was becoming as distant a memory as Jeff Papows' term there as CEO, Big Blue and its collaboration company have come storming back. This time, the cloud is the battlefield.
This week, Panasonic ditched exchange for LotusLive, IBM's hosted e-mail system. And Lotus is also playing a key role in the launch of a collaboration-equipped BlackBerry. Suddenly, the cloud is giving way to a Big Blue sky. (OK, we'll keep working on those metaphors.)
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/20/20100 comments
The two longtime, long-term partners plan to spend $250 million over the next three years on cloud and virtualization technologies. This is an important story, actually...but we're not going to tell it. We'll leave that to Jeff Schwartz, who covered the announcement for RCPmag.com here and in his blog. So, yeah, if you want to read about Microsoft and HP, you're just going to have to boost our hit count. But it's worth it! Â
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/14/20100 comments
Oblicore is not only a fun word to say (roll it around a few times); it's also a business-performance management vendor that measures IT performance...and now belongs to CA.
Posted by Lee Pender on 01/14/20100 comments