One of the most closely tracked companies on Wall Street's radar screen did not disappoint expectations with reported revenues for the third quarter of $472 million, a 32 percent increase achieved under increasingly difficult market conditions.
Microsoft released System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (VMM 2008), the second major component of its virtualization strategy.
An IDC study released on Thursday depicted a slowing worldwide market for virtualized servers.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/20/2008
Microsoft's CEO talked about Windows 7 and the company's vision for syncing up applications in the Internet cloud at a Gartner-sponsored event on Thursday.
Sophos quickly warns of fake Trojan-laden e-mail disguised as Microsoft Security Bulletin update hitting inboxes.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/16/2008
In a break with tradition, Microsoft has decided to use the code name for the next version of Windows as the official moniker.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/14/2008
Security-minded admins have their work cut out for them, as Microsoft coughs up 11 fixes in its October patch cycle.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/14/2008
Citrix took another step forward in its quest to push the envelope for virtualization interoperability by releasing a technology preview of Project Kensho, the company's multi-hypervisor toolkit that allows ISVs and IT managers to develop portable virtual machine (VM) appliances.
Microsoft has been talking about future changes to Windows Vista's most maligned feature, User Account Control (UAC).
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/13/2008
Microsoft's October patch release cycle promises to be a busy one as Redmond announced plans to roll out 11 security bulletins in its Tuesday security release.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/09/2008
Microsoft Springboard Virtual Roundtable examined Vista performance, fielding technical views from panelists that had actually carried out system upgrades.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/08/2008
Migration to virtualization won't be the quick transition that some technology evangelists have predicted, according to recent surveys by two IT security companies.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 10/07/2008
Seattle-based application delivery networking vendor F5 Networks Inc. has announced several new products for its file virtualization portfolio.
Open source software vendor Red Hat went global with its high-performance computing (HPC) product on Thursday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/03/2008
Rumors that Microsoft initiated a hiring freeze are not true, according to Microsoft spokesperson Lou Gellos, who denied it in accounts published on Friday.
Is "cloud computing" the next big thing in IT, or are you just a victim of "cloud wash"?
- By Herb Torrens
- 10/02/2008
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it is conducting a private beta test of Microsoft's server products running on Amazon's hosted computing platform, which is called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
The open source hypervisor Xen has a new version, 3.3, that includes a number of upgrades and enhancements that make it more enterprise-worthy and start to move it beyond the datacenter.
Citrix Systems has upped the competitive ante by adding a new set of performance-related features to its flagship XenApp product.
Businesses may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a recent Forrester Research report.