Stories about: Managed IT

SQL Server may be one of the most popular databases today, but Microsoft nevertheless remains a laggard in the business intelligence market. It ranked just fifth among BI vendors last year, according to research firm IDC.

Andrew Maddox is still using the first generation of Apple's iPhone, but he wasted no time this week in getting his business e-mail pushed to the device.

Bill Gates will be leaving Microsoft for good at the end of the month and Microsoft would have you believe that it will be business as usual for Microsoft. I understand they also have a great bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn that they'd like to sell you. Cheap!

Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Electronic Data Systems won't hurt Dell in the next few years, but it could affect Dell's chances of getting larger services contracts in the long term, analysts said.

In an effort to boost its managed IT services portfolio, Dell on Thursday agreed to acquire desktop services management company Everdream.

The banking, financial services and insurance industries (BFSI) are showing a strong interest in deploying unified communication applications due to a high penetration of IP telephony in this vertical, according to Frost and Sullivan.

Japan's largest electronics show, Ceatec, kicks off October every year with all that's new and coming from the country's consumer electronics vendors. The 2007 show was certainly no let down and provided visitors a chance to catch some world-first technology, like a 3-millimeter thick TV, a laptop with super-charged graphics processing and new high-def video recorders.

Microsoft Monday said development is complete on its System Center Configuration Manager 2007, a cornerstone in its model for managed IT systems, and that the management tool will ship in November.

Managed IT network services vendor S Central has acquired network services provider Expressapps, marking its third buy in seven months in the virtualization, storage and managed services markets.

The proliferation of on-demand services in our personal lives has made many of us receptive to a comparable set of on-demand services to satisfy our professional needs. For instance, as we've become comfortable using online backup and storage services to store valuable pictures or musical play lists, we've also become more cognizant of the value of using similar services to protect our corporate documents.

As CIO and vice president of managed solutions at Microsoft, Ron Markezich is responsible for the company's internal IT operations and for delivering IT services to customers. Energizer Holdings last year became the first user to contract with Microsoft for remote desktop management, messaging and collaboration services. XL Capital, an insurance and financial services firm, has also signed a managed services deal, according to Markezich. During an interview with Computerworld US at TechEd 2006 last week, Markezich discussed Microsoft's Internet-based services vision for corporate IT.