Planning your storage architecture in a VMware environment is one of the most critical design elements. Even more critical: sizing of VMFS datastores.
                    
			            - By Rick  Vanover
- 04/26/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Upcoming federated ID management technology promises to improve authentication across both server and cloud. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/23/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Thousands of enterprise PCs running Windows XP crashed yesterday after a McAfee antivirus update was applied.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- 04/22/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft's April patch will block installing a Windows kernel fix in the presence of troublesome malware.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- 04/20/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Unified compute platform ties Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager with storage, networking and blade servers
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 04/19/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft on Monday released to manufacturing two new products in its System Center suite -- System Center Essentials 2010 and Data Protection Manager 2010.
                    
			            - By Scott  Bekker
- 04/19/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Developers can start building apps with the powerful tooling in Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4 and Silverlight 4. 
                    
			            - By Michael  Desmond
- 04/12/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft plans to end the support it provides on three of its flagship software products for Intel's Itanium processor.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Citrix has released versions of its GoToMeeting and Receiver applications for iPad. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Windows Insider has returned to Redmond -- and it feels good to be home!
                    
			            - By Greg  Shields
- 04/01/2010
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A new zero-day Internet Explorer bug awaits IT pros returning from the holiday break.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- 11/30/2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Java clustering infrastructure provider Terracotta has acquired the popular Quartz open-source job-scheduling software, filling a gap in its ability to support scaleout in virtualized environments. 
                    
			            - By John K. Waters
- 11/30/2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Google, Microsoft and Amazon pitched their respective cloud offerings during the keynote panel session at Interop New York Thursday. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 11/20/2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Yousef Khalidi talked about Microsoft's new Azure cloud services at the Interop trade show on Thursday.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 11/20/2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Enterprise customers that start to use cloud services will also host applications and/or data on premises. 
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 11/19/2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft rolled out multiple public betas at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
                    
			            - By Herb  Torrens
- 11/18/2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft officials briefed financial analysts on the company's cloud computing strategy at its Professional Developers Conference on Wednesday.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Ray Ozzie kicked off Microsoft's 2009 Professional Developers Conference with a keynote that focused heavily on Windows Azure and cloud computing.
                    
			            - By Michael  Desmond
- 11/17/2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft is continuing to investigate holes in its Server Message Block file-sharing protocol used in Windows.
                    
			            - By Jabulani  Leffall
- 11/16/2009
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    AMD and Intel on Thursday agreed to a legal settlement in which Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion.
                    
			            - By Jeffrey  Schwartz
- 11/13/2009