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Review: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010; Five arguments for a Microsoft upgrade

Five arguments for a Microsoft upgrade | Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday: Tiny but potent

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Review: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
In November, we gave SharePoint 2010 beta a test drive. Now, we put the shipping product through its paces and find that Microsoft has delivered a multi-purpose tool that delivers a bigger bang because of its tight coupling with Office 2010. Read More


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Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here!

WHITE PAPER: Riverbed

Overcome Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise - and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. Click here!

Five arguments for a Microsoft upgrade
Robert Mullins: With today's release of Microsoft Office 2010 to business users, IT managers are likely doing some serious number-crunching to see if it's worth it for their organization to migrate to it. But there's also a whole range of Microsoft enterprise software that Redmond wants you to consider besides Office. Read More

Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday: Tiny but potent
Microsoft Subnet: Microsoft's May seemingly skimpy release of two security bulletins could give IT managers a false sense of security, especially considering one of the vulnerabilities could live on post-patching in third-party applications. Read More

Microsoft Office 2010 released to businesses
Microsoft will launch Office 2010, the latest version of its Office productivity suite, to businesses today. Read More


WHITE PAPER: Splunk

Make IT Data a Strategic Asset
This paper outlines the struggles organizations face managing silos of IT data and how, using Splunk, users are changing the way they do their jobs and elevating the role of IT in their organizations. Learn More!

EMC manages Microsoft SharePoint data with new SourceOne product
As Microsoft readies a new version of SharePoint, EMC is releasing software that will archive SharePoint data and help IT control the growing data volumes created by the product. Read More

Clouds hang over Microsoft Office, SharePoint 2010 launch
takes on the cloud with the release of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Read More

Microsoft Office 2010's Rivals: IBM, Zoho and OpenOffice
While Google Apps may not be a knockout threat to Microsoft's enterprise business this year, a cloud apps battle continues to brew between the two companies. Google and Microsoft are the forerunners in this competition, but other rivalsare nipping on their heels. Read More


WEBCAST: Meraki

Cloud-Managed WiFi
Learn how cloud-managed wireless access points can be self-configured and centrally managed over the web, provide secured access for employees and guests, be scalable for networks of all sizes, and provide a cost savings of up to 50% over traditional solutions. Click here.

Google exec: Microsoft too far behind in cloud apps
Of the challenges that could keep Google from reaching its goal of using Google Docs to move into the enterprise, Microsoft may be one of the biggest barriers. Read More

Microsoft CTO discusses IT's future apart from the cloud
Despite the unrelenting hype around cloud computing, it's just one aspect of several that will shape the next generation of enterprise IT, according to Barry Briggs, CTO of Microsoft IT. Read More

Patent office upholds i4i patent in Microsoft dispute
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office confirmed a patent held by i4i that has been at the heart of a dispute with Microsoft. Read More

Microsoft, Verizon defend Kin's monthly pricing, noting cloud backup
Microsoft's new Kin phones are not truly smartphones, but Verizon Wireless is charging users a minimum monthly $70 service fee -- $30 alone for data -- anyway, over a two-year contract. Read More



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