With a shrinking server market, financial services firms are porting more applications to Linux at the expense of Unix and other legacy platforms. While that has been an ongoing trend for many years, the motive has shifted in the past year from adding new functionality to reducing cost.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/08/2009
Microsoft on Tuesday released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1, which provides updates to the relational database management system, but no new features.
While the IT security community waited anxiously to see what havoc the Conficker worm might bring to infected systems on April 1, another worm slithered into the picture and now has Microsoft's full attention.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/08/2009
Sun Microsystems has released VirtualBox 2.2, an update to the company's free and open source desktop virtualization solution.
Microsoft has delayed the release of an upcoming enterprise security suite that integrates Microsoft Forefront security solutions, the company announced late last week.
- By Herb Torrens
- 04/08/2009
Plus: An un-'Stirling' roll-out; PCI Compliance is better than no compliance; more.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/07/2009
PowerShell custom properties go beyond the call of duty by providing information as you need it.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 04/07/2009
Microsoft will permit Windows 7 Professional edition downgrades to Windows XP Professional, according a report by veteran Microsoft watcher Mary-Jo Foley published on Monday.
Zend Technologies will release its commercial-grade server for PHP applications on Tuesday.
- By Herb Torrens
- 04/06/2009
The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the proposed $7 billion dollar deal for IBM Corp. to acquire Sun Microsystems virtually collapsed this weekend.
A new zero-day remote code execution vulnerability has come to Redmond's attention, this time affecting Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 04/03/2009
HP rolled out a service suite this week to help enterprise IT departments adopt and manage cloud-based services.
- By Herb Torrens
- 04/02/2009
Conficker is scheduled to update itself April 1. But analysts say the appears to be an upgrade of its defenses rather than a planned attack.
- By William Jackson
- 04/01/2009
Microsoft on Monday announced a new services capability that's part of its Windows Embedded Server product line.
Microsoft announced an online service for IT pros that enables them to test incoming e-mail traffic to Microsoft Exchange Server.
Brace yourself! That's your way of telling PowerShell to execute whatever code is encased in the curly braces.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 03/31/2009
High Availability and Exam 70-652: Windows Server Virtualization, Configuring
According to IT staffing specialist Robert Half Technology, a net 2 percent of CIOs anticipate adding IT staff in the coming quarter, compared to a net 8 percent increase in Q1.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/31/2009
Mozilla rolled out security updates for Firefox after the Web browser was hacked during a contest two weeks ago at a software security convention in Vancouver.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/30/2009
The Conficker frenzy continues as IT security pros prepare for April 1, when the worm is expected to take some action from infected systems.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/30/2009