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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 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! In this Issue Five arguments for a Microsoft upgrade Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday: Tiny but potent Microsoft Office 2010 released to businesses EMC manages Microsoft SharePoint data with new SourceOne product Clouds hang over Microsoft Office, SharePoint 2010 launch Microsoft Office 2010's Rivals: IBM, Zoho and OpenOffice Google exec: Microsoft too far behind in cloud apps Microsoft CTO discusses IT's future apart from the cloud Patent office upholds i4i patent in Microsoft dispute Microsoft, Verizon defend Kin's monthly pricing, noting cloud backup 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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