It’s our goal to help customers achieve ultimate scalability, performance and deployment flexibility for mission-critical workloads running in the public and private cloud. Built from the same code base, SQL Server 2012 and SQL Azure provide a complete database solution for the enterprise. The latest releases offer huge advancements that address the evolving needs of IT.

This holiday season, more than 75 Kinect games will hit the market compared to the 17 released last year. This Read more

IBM estimates that the new facility will employ up to 170 technical staff by the end of 2012. Through a second agreement, IBM will license to the Skolkovo Foundation know-how related to intellectual property management, including methods to help identify and evaluate technologies of high potential commercial value.

Also new from HP are the HP LV1911 and LV2011 LED Backlit LCD Monitors, which provide business performance at budget-friendly prices. The HP LV1911 and LV2011 respectively Read more

IBM scientists will continue to test and improve the probe and potentially begin using it in laboratory environments in the next several months. In addition, the team plans to explore specific clinical applications, possibly with partners in the field of pathology. Alternative approaches are needed to continue the rapid pace of computing innovation.

“One of the first steps of a secure enterprise is knowing what your own employees have access to,” said Barry Miracle, Read more

We appreciate and value the discussions we’ve had with Comptroller Liu’s office and the opportunity to continue our collaborative work with shareholders on initiatives that further demonstrate our commitment to corporate citizenship. This new reporting requirement will help shareholders, customers and others understand how Microsoft and its suppliers are meeting their expectations for social responsibility.

The findings, published today in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, DOI: Read more

Increasingly, businesses want to provide employees the option of using a personal device as a way to reduce cost and allow them to work wherever or whenever they need to, but doing so requires diligence in protecting corporate data. With mobile threats on the rise, complex IT environments, security risks, maintaining policies, and helping companies control cost are top of mind concerns for many CIOs and security and risk professionals.

By pooling our energy, expertise and vision, IBM Read more

As a key part of its growth strategy, IBM is investing in the Indian education system with a number of partnerships and academic initiatives especially to support the growth of open source technologies. For example, IBM is partnering with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Guwahati to foster innovation and promote local technology talent.

With the new office in Indore, IBM is strengthening its ability to deliver more advanced and high-value solutions such as information Read more

Ubiquity derives a security rating for each file, based on information about the context of the file – where it came from, how old it is and its adoption patterns across Symantec’s user population – in addition to other proprietary calculations. While attackers can easily mutate a malware file’s contents to make it invisible to traditional signatures, they have far less control over these crowd-based demographics. Ubiquity is the only technology in the industry to use this Read more

IBM has been closely working with IIT and other universities across the country to improve and evolve IT skills based on open standards and we look forward to increasing our partnership especially in emerging fields such as cloud computing and business analytics.

Detects threats other approaches miss – Ubiquity adds an entirely new layer of protection that amplifies Symantec’s existing defense-in-depth approach, which also includes signature-based protection, intrusion prevention, Read more

Virtualization, consolidation and cloud computing promise huge cost savings and improved efficiencies, but as users move farther from their data, slow applications and file transfers can stall these strategic initiatives. Riverbed delivers to the remote office and mobile workers the same “local area network (LAN)-like” performance, no matter where the private data center or public cloud may be.

In addition, hardware-based transactional memory helps programmers avoid the potentially Read more