Growing ranks of those with MCSE: Security offers some proof that security remains hot.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/24/2005
HP’s ProCurve networking division says it will ship in April its first two WAN routers aimed at SMBs and branch offices, as well as an access control module for its ProCurve 5300xl series switches.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/24/2005
Microsoft will raise prices for SQL Server 2005 compared to SQL Server 2000, but SQL Server will continue to come in a free edition, a new low cost edition is being added and functionality previously reserved for the Enterprise Edition is working its way down to lower cost versions.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/24/2005
Amid all the industry-shaking security moves Microsoft unveiled last week, the company also updated its progress on distributing Windows XP Service Pack 2 -- its most far-reaching effort to date to improve the security of the average computer on the Internet.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/24/2005
Even a simple PKI can be useful and secure.
IBM will ship the first of its X3 32/64-bit, dual-core capable servers within 30 days, the company said this week. The eServer xSeries 366 (x366) is the first in a planned IBM family of dual-core-capable Intel-based server offerings.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/23/2005
More competency exams available for Microsoft software licensing experts.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/23/2005
Some of Windows NT's oldest subsystem and protocol friends will be left behind when the codebase moves to x64.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/23/2005
Intel is shipping five 64-bit Pentium 4 processors for use in desktop computers. The release comes on the heels of the company’s shipment earlier this month of early production versions of its dual-core CPUs.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/23/2005
Add database queries to your scripts.
Microsoft this month started a blog dedicated to its Windows Server family. The Windows Server product team appears poised to use the blog as an information clearinghouse for minor product milestones, such as release candidates and other betas, to float trial balloons for potential features, and as a place to gather user input.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/22/2005
Details about the next version of Internet Explorer are sketchy, but at least we can hope for the best.
In this Exchange 5.5-to-2003 migration, the admin is hung out to dry during setup. So, what gives?
- By Bill Boswell
- 02/22/2005
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the purchase of a third-party wizard for implementing Microsoft Axapta.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/22/2005
Columnist Russ Cooper would have liked a few more specifics out of Bill Gates' much-anticipated keynote address at the RSA conference last week.
From the business wires this week: compliance and auditing tools, a security and antitheft tracking solution, and more.
Intel announced this week it is shipping upgraded versions of its 64-bit Xeon processors, and also said it will ship new multi-processor Xeons within three months.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/17/2005
Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004 Enterprise Edition will be generally available in March, eight months after the Standard Edition of the firewall, VPN and Web caching server hit the market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/17/2005
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD announced this week that it will ship two new Opteron processors within the next month, and also announced that Cambridge, England-based startup XenSource will port the Xen open-source system virtualization platform to run on Opteron-based systems.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 02/17/2005
Move user files and settings easier with Microsoft's USMT tool.