Windows Server 8 First Looks

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	Windows Server 8 First Looks Microsoft's proposed Server Manager for Windows 8 Server Editions helps explain a lot of what Microsoft proposes in Windows Server 8: Ease and flexibility Read More WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Most Important Metric for your VMs The management tools selected to support virtualization is essential to the ability of IT to grow the virtual environment without proportionately increasing the staff to manage all of the new physical host servers and their guest VMs. Learn More In this Issue How Microsoft Research helped Craig Mundie speak Chinese Cisco, Microsoft cooperation on virtual switching gives customers new option Some W8 PCs won't turn off secure boot, Red Hat warns Microsoft passes Rustock botnet baton to FBI Telework controversy: Are 17% of teleworkers unabashed slackers? Does Microsoft's partnership with 'intent-driven' Adchemy protect consumer privacy? Google asks court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract 5 reasons why I'm excited to be going to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim Will Windows 8 lock out pirates and Linux? Microsoft, Red Hat spar over secure boot-loading tech WHITE PAPER: CA Technologies The Value of Service-Centric Visibility IT organizations are under pressure to avert problems before they occur. To achieve the proactive approach required and move to the next level of service delivery, they need "service-centric" visibility that ties infrastructure components to the services that rely on them. Read More How Microsoft Research helped Craig Mundie speak Chinese Craig Mundie, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer, doesn't speak Chinese. But on Tuesday he did, via a life-like virtual avatar shown at the company's offices in Beijing that can simulate his voice and speak in other languages. Read More Cisco, Microsoft cooperation on virtual switching gives customers new option Cisco support will make Microsoft's Hyper-V environment more attractive to corporate customers, but it remains to be seen whether that's enough for Hyper-V to give VMware's ESXi a run for its money. Read More Some W8 PCs won't turn off secure boot, Red Hat warns Last week, I alerted readers how Microsoft was requiring OEMs to implement, by default, UEFI secure boot on new Windows 8 machines. The Linux community had been worried for months that secure boot could lock Linux off PC hardware, and when Microsoft announced that secure boot would be required by all new Windows 8 hardware the red flags flew. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Akamai Cloud Optimization for Amazon EC2™ The emergence of public cloud platforms and services has IT organizations thinking about which applications they want to keep in-house and which they can build within the cloud. Read more Microsoft passes Rustock botnet baton to FBI Microsoft wrapped up its civil case against the still-unnamed controllers of the Rustock botnet and handed off the information gleaned during its investigation to the FBI. Read More Telework controversy: Are 17% of teleworkers unabashed slackers? A recent report claims that 17% of telecommuters work less than one hour a day. That's bogus, say telework advocates who are taking to web sites, blogs and other social media to refute the findings. Read More Does Microsoft's partnership with 'intent-driven' Adchemy protect consumer privacy? If someone shadowed your digital footprints, making notes of who you became a "fan" of on social networks, keeping records where you were checking-in via mobile devices, compiling your data to decipher your intent, would you consider that collection to be tracking your personal info? Read More WEBCAST: Akamai Technologies, Inc. Saving cloud computing users from evil doers This video panel discussion delves into IT's current and future security threats. Topics include web application security, vulnerabilities, threats and mitigation/defense strategies, and tactics with individual perspectives on the magnitude and direction of threats. Learn more Google asks court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract Google and one of its resellers have asked a federal court to dismiss their case against the U.S. Department of the Interior over Microsoft-only bids for cloud-based services. Read More 5 reasons why I'm excited to be going to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim In just about a week, I will be headed, along with several thousand other enthusiasts, to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, CA. If you aren't planning to go, here are some of the reasons you might want to join me. Read More Will Windows 8 lock out pirates and Linux? Earlier this week members of the tech community voiced concerns over Microsoft's UEFI spec, which would in theory make Windows 8 PCs more secure, but could also prevent Linux from booting off the machines. Yesterday Microsoft responded via a post written by Tony Mangefeste of the Ecosystem team. Read More Microsoft, Red Hat spar over secure boot-loading tech Is Microsoft using a next-generation computing boot-loading technology to lock out the use of Linux and other OSEs on certain computers? While Microsoft has denied malicious intent, one Red Hat developer maintains that this may be the case. Read More
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