Microsoft announces the release of WebMatrix Today, Microsoft announced the worldwide availability of WebMatrix, a free set of tools designed to help website developers of all skill levels easily create, customize and publish websites to the internet...

Today Lokad announced Salescast, a web application for sales forecasting hosted on Windows Azure, at National Retail Federation's 100th Annual Exposition and Conference . To meet the sales forecasting challenge in the retail industry, Lokad delivers...

Microsoft Releases Client Technology Preview (CTP) of Server Application Virtualization on Windows Azure As previously announced at PDC 2010 , Microsoft is now delivering the final Community Technology Preview (CTP) promised by the end of CY2010. This...

Looking back at 2010, the Server and Tools Business yielded numerous product announcements throughout the year. As a result, several publications have identified Server and Tools products as industry winners in annual product awards. Check out the great...

There are many exciting new customers adopting the Windows Azure Platform, earlier this week we announced that Transport for London would move their ‘Trackernet’ application to the Windows Azure Platform and today brings more news from three of Microsoft...

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Today, many organizations have separate endpoint security and management infrastructures, which requires two sets of maintenance efforts, policies, and incident response procedures. 

Microsoft today announced the release of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 (FEP), the next generation of Forefront Client Security, to help customers align the disciplines of client security and management.  By taking advantage of this converged infrastructure, organizations can improve desktop protection and lower operational costs.

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Direct Edge, a New Jersey-based stock exchange, announced today its use of Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Informatica Ultra Messaging for its new trading platforms. By building its new exchange on technology from Microsoft and...

Today, Microsoft and Transport for London (TfL) announced the move of TfL’s Developers Area and their new Trackernet data feed to the Windows Azure Platform.   One of the clear benefits for TfL with the Windows Azure Platform is it’s scalability...

Today, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard edition and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Premium Add-on . Starting in early January, you will find SBS 2011 Standard and Premium Add-On in volume...

VMblog’s 2011 Predictions series asks virtualization and cloud executives to take a look back at trends of the past year, and provide recommendations about what 2011 might bring. Microsoft’s David Greshler shares some thoughtful guidance for...

Microsoft has announced new partnerships with three of Australia’s top research organizations as part of the company’s Global Cloud Research Engagement Initiative launched earlier this year. Partnerships with National ICT Australia (NICTA...

Windows Azure Platform Client Technology Previews Now Available As previously announced at PDC 2010 , t his week, Microsoft is making available limited Community Technology Previews (CTP’s) of SQL Azure Reporting and SQL Azure Data Sync. These...

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As previously announced at PDC 2010, Microsoft is now delivering updates to the Windows Azure platform to further enable Platform as a service (PaaS), where developers and business will ultimately see the true value of the cloud. Today, Microsoft is delivering:

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Drive Extender Feature in SBS Products When we first started designing SBS 2011 Essentials (formally SBS Code Name “Aurora”), one of our initial focuses was to provide support for multiple internal and external hard drives. Drive Extender...

As the Microsoft Technical Computing and eXtreme Computing groups close out their week at the Supercomputing 2010 event in New Orleans, the Next in Tech takes a look at how NCBI BLAST on Windows Azure is helping take cloud advancements out of Microsoft’s...

Today Microsoft’s Technical Computing and eXtreme Computing groups kick off the company’s presence at Supercomputing 2010 in New Orleans. Technical computing, or supercomputing, harnesses massive computing power and enormous data for...

Q&A: Muglia Discusses the Latest News for Server and Tools For a snapshot of Server and Tools news over the last few weeks, take a look at the Executive Q&A with Bob Muglia on Microsoft News Center. PASS Summit 2010 PASS (Professional...

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It’s been a busy few weeks for the Server and Tools Business, with announcements at PDC10, TechEd Europe and the PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Summit 2010. At PDC and TechEd Europe, Microsoft launched several new products and updates, including tools and resources to help customers more easily develop and deploy cloud applications and a new set of Hyper-V Cloud programs that help businesses more efficiently build their own cloud infrastructures. The consistent theme across all announcements is that Microsoft’s offerings enable partners and customers to extend their current investments to take advantage of new solutions that drive efficiency and meet business demands.

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TechEd Europe 2010 kicks off today in Berlin, Germany with a keynote by Microsoft’s Brad Anderson , which can be seen here beginning at 7 a.m. (PST). The on-demand replay will be available on the Microsoft Cloud Virtual Pressroom later this week. At last...

Last week at the Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced a number of new enhancements and services that make it easier for customers to move to the Windows Azure platform, our general-purpose operating system for Platform as a Service...

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Since we announced the availability of the beta version of Windows Small Business Server Code name “Aurora” and Windows Small Business Server “7”, both products have been downloaded more than 9000 times through bout our partner and customer community. Today as we move forward with these new releases, Microsoft is announcing the final names, pricing, licensing and estimated availability for the next generation of the Small Business Server family currently in public preview.

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Hot on the heels of last Week’s Professional Developer’s Conference , Microsoft continues its heavy focus on cloud computing by kicking off a new, global “Cloud Power” campaign. Based on the notion that the cloud has the power to fundamentally change...

Platform as a service is where developers and businesses will ultimately see the true value of the cloud, and the OS for Platform as a service is Windows Azure. The Windows Azure platform, comprised of Windows Azure and SQL Azure, is supported by a rich...

Microsoft is partnering with Cloud.com and Rackspace to provide support of its virtualization platform, Hyper-V, to the OpenStack project. This allows customers and service providers to use Windows Server R2 2008 Hyper-V virtualized environments running...

This week, Microsoft launched a new tool for information on mission critical applications called Today's Enterprise . Designed to help CIOs and IT decision makers share ideas and best practices and analyze their platform options, the site features case...