Tag: Microsoft
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HP, Microsoft Reward Cross-Selling VARs
Categories: News and TrendsHewlett-Packard and Microsoft have taken their channel collaboration one step further with a new program called “Bring IT Together” that offers pre-installed Microsoft software on HP products. A limited time promotion, the companies are offering incentives to VARs which sell certain product combinations that include hardware from HP and software from Microsoft. Let Your Voice… Read more
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SMBs Get Storage Package for Microsoft Exchange
Categories: News and TrendsData storage vendor NetApp and e-mail management appliance maker Azaleos announced April 12 that they have united to provide a new enterprise-class messaging hardware/software package for SMBs that use Microsoft Exchange servers. Azaleos’ OneServer2 appliance and OneStop managed services basically separate the flow of e-mail from the storage apparatus and act like a traffic cop… Read more
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Microsoft Delays the Release of Viridian, Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft has pushed back the release of the first public beta for Windows Server virtualization, code-named Viridian, from the first half of 2007 until the second half of the year so that it can meet its internal goals for performance and scalability. Viridian is Microsoft’s Windows hypervisor technology that will run beneath the operating system… Read more
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ACS Launches Managed Service Platform for Microsoft Exchange
Categories: News and TrendsAffiliated Computer Services launched April 6 a managed services platform for Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007. ACS’ SolutionOne is designed for businesses that use MS Exchange as their e-mail service, allowing ACS to manage the deployment and support of the product. The managed services offering also integrates ACS’ data centers and professionals’ expertise on… Read more
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Year’s Supply of H-1B Visas Tapped Out on Day One
Categories: News and TrendsBreaking yet another record of H-1B visa depletion, the entire supply of specialized-occupation temporary worker visas for the 2008 fiscal year were exhausted the first day they were available, the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) announced April 3. Each year since 2004, when the cap on H-1B visas was slashed from a record high… Read more
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Microsoft Changes Vista Licensing to Cover New Deployment Models
Categories: News and TrendsMicrosoft has made changes to its licensing model for Windows Vista to meet the needs of enterprise customers in the finance and government sectors using bleeding-edge technologies. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will announce April 2 a subscription license called Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktops, which allows customers to use Windows in virtual machines centralized… Read more